![]() ![]() It wasn’t long, however, before he was poached by Picture Palace, a company he says made mainly commercials but were “looking to get into drama”. He had an early brush with writing and producing for radio in London before before being approached by a friend about starting a production company. Tim came to Fair City armed with an impressive CV which includes directing 200 plus episodes of Coronation Street, as well as episodes of Casualty, The Royal and Byker Grove. ![]() In fact his two sons, Oliver and Oscar, now aged 28 and 22 respectively, previously represented Ireland in the student Rugby League World Cup. Tim grew up in the UK but had an affinity with Ireland and when his four kids were young, they regularly holidayed in Courtmacsherry in West Cork. His father, Denis O’Mara, hailed from Corbally Road in Limerick. Tim’s mother, Kathleen O’Connor, was from Cork, although she never told him exactly where. “She died at the relatively young age of 67 and one of my last memories of her is of holding my son Ollie in her arms at his christening when he was just three months old.” ![]() “It was really as a tribute to my mum,” Tim says. ![]()
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