''The Vanishing Triangle'' is a six-part television series created by

Ivan Kavanagh Ivan Kavanagh is an Irish filmmaker, writer and director, best known for ''Son'' (2021), ''The Canal'' (2014) and ''Never Grow Old'' (2019). He was born in Dublin, Ireland. His second feature film "The Solution" won Best Drama at the Portobello F ...

. It is a dramatisation of true stories from

Ireland's Vanishing Triangle Ireland's Vanishing Triangle refers to a number of high-profile disappearances of Irish women from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Several other women were also murdered within the triangle and their cases remain unsolved as well. All of the ca ...

. Distributed by Eccho Rights, it premiered on

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in the United States on 26 October 2023, and aired on

Virgin Media One Virgin Media One, also called Virgin One, is an Irish free-to-air television channel owned by Virgin Media Ireland (part of Liberty Global), operated through its subsidiary Virgin Media Television. The channel launched on 20 September 19 ...

in Ireland on 25 March 2024 and

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in the United Kingdom on 29 April. It premiered on Australian television on Thursday 7 March 2024, on SBS. Channel 5 will broadcast the series under the name The Vanishings from 6 February 2025.

Cast

Main

* India Mullen as Lisa Wallace, investigative journalist *

Allen Leech Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for his roles as Tom Branson in the ITV period drama ''Downton Abbey'' (2010–2015) and Paul Prenter in the biopic ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' (2018). Leech made his professiona ...

as David Burkely, detective * Aaron Monaghan as Gareth Brennan * Laoise Sweeney as Susan Reynolds *

Derbhle Crotty Derbhle Crotty is an Irish actress. She was born in County Cavan, Ireland in 1968. She studied law in UCD in the late 1980s joining Dramsoc and then pursued the performance course at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. She was a ...

as Barbara Adams * Philip O'Sullivan as DCS Gill * Gráinne Good as Amy Reynolds * Brian Moore as Mark Bulger * Jana Mohieden as Mandy Clarke * Adam John Richardson as Tommy Stephens *

Stuart Dunne Stuart Dunne (born 1957) is an Irish actor and artist. He is best known for his dark and violent portrayal of the character Billy Meehan on the Irish soap opera ''Fair City''. He was nominated at the 2003 Irish Film and Television Awards for ...

as Chris Wallace *

Stephen Hogan Stephen Hogan is an Irish actor and audiobook narrator. Biography Hogan was born in August 1965 and grew up in Dartry, Dublin, Ireland. He is the son of Brian Hogan, a prominent Dublin architect, and Marie née Lawton. His grandfather, Sars ...

as Ger Gough

Recurring

* Maura Foley as Janice Wallace * Jason Daly as Jimmy * Kiera Crawford as Rachel Burkely * Fionnuala Murphy as Francis Reynolds * Sarah Carroll as Mary Burkely * Peter Corboy as Liam Benson

Episodes

Production

Development

''The Vanishing Triangle'' was originally developed by Park Films and

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. 87 Films and Paper Planes Productions boarded the project as it was commissioned by Virgin Media One and SundanceNow. The series is created by Ivan Kavanagh, and co-written with Sally Tatchell and Rachel Anthony. Executive producers include actor Allen Leech, AnneMarie Naughton and Ana Habajec of Park Films, Patrick Irwin of 87 Films, Alon Aranya of Paper Plane Productions, and Adam Barth and Lucy Robert of Eccho Rights.

Casting

In September 2022, it was announced

and India Mullen would lead the series. Maura Foley and Kiera Crawford also joined the cast.

Filming

Filming was reported in Bray, County Wicklow in October 2022.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vanishing triangle, The 2023 Irish television series debuts 2020s Irish television series Sundance TV original programming Television series based on actual events Television series set in the 1990s True crime television series Virgin Media Television (Ireland) original programming