Father Dougal McGuire The writers have said that the only other actor they feel might have worked in the role is Don Wycherley, who plays Dougal's Rugged Island counterpart, Father Cyril McDuff, in the show. There have been several attempts to remake the show for American audiences. In 2004, it was reported that Graham Norton (who played Father Noel Furlong in "Father Ted") had signed on to play Dougal alongside Steve Martin as Ted. No remake has yet entered production. References to Dougal's family are rare. In "Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest", he mentions that his parents are dead, and also refers to
Father Hesburgh and Father Joyce they liked of him standing outside of Corby Hall, pretty much in the pose that you see. There was a look on his face that they liked.” The time period represented in the statue was circa 1975. Cella remembers during the installation that fairly new onlookers from the library who didn’t know Hesburgh during this time period would “looked at it and ask ‘that’s father Ted?’” whereas more senior members of the library staff or faculty who knew him better said it “totally looked like him.” Father Theodore Hesburgh and Father Edmund Joyce were president and executive vice president of