Hardy Bucks May 2026

The mockumentary follows Eddie Durkan and his band of lovable slackers in the fictional Castletown, Co. Mayo. These were young men in their 20s navigating a post-recession Ireland where the primary pastimes were "hanging around the town" and trying to find the craic.

If you grew up in or around a small Irish town during the late 2000s, you didn’t just watch —you lived it. What started as a gritty, largely improvised web series for the 2009 RTÉ Storyland competition grew into a cultural phenomenon that perfectly captured the "shpot" of rural boredom. From Castletown to the Big Screen Hardy Bucks

While there are constant rumors of new seasons, many believe the original magic is hard to recreate now that the cast has aged. As one fan put it, seeing the lads in their 40s would be a massive "tonal shift". However, the spirit lives on through the Hardy Bucks Podcast , where Eddie Durkan (Martin Maloney) continues to dissect the "disenchanted world of acting" and "Geezerdom". The mockumentary follows Eddie Durkan and his band