The Mainland (Father Ted) Ted and Dougal flee deeper into the caves and get lost. Dougal complains of being hungry, having missed breakfast, and starts hallucinating. As Ted tries to find their way out, they run into Father Noel Furlong and the St. Luke's Youth Group, who have been lost in the caves for two days. Noel's overly optimistic manner and boundless energy leads him into singing a song that causes a cave-in that traps Noel beneath it. The Youth Group immediately depart and plan to make their way to Paraguay. Ted and Dougal continue to seek a way out, and Ted finds that
Father Ted Crilly Craven), the novelist he becomes infatuated with in "And God Created Woman", and consider the impossibility of their relationship "terribly sad". Ted is a middle-aged man with a distinctive head of silver-grey hair (often imitated through wigs by cosplaying fans). He wears two badges: one is a pin signifying membership of the Pioneers, an Irish Catholic teetotalers organisation, and the other is a Fáinne, which indicates the wearer's fluency in the Irish language. In 1996, Morgan was named the Best TV Comedy Actor at the British Comedy Awards for his performance in the second series. He died in February 1998,