Simon Delaney recalled fond memories drinking pints at 8am and taking lunchtime naps while filming Bachelors Walk as the show returns to RTE.
The Virgin Media presenter, 49, added that despite the show being 20 years old, there isn’t a week that goes by where fans don’t stop him to talk about it.
The actor turned Ireland Am presenter said: “It was 20 years ago that we made it - it was 2000.
“I’m not just saying this, but there isn’t a week when somebody doesn’t mention Bachelors Walk to me, be it in a queue at the shopping centre or in a taxi or online or Twitter or Facebook or Instagram.
‘Where can I get the DVD? I live in Australia. My brother-in-law wants it. I want to send it to him as a present’.
“It’s incredible; it literally has stayed with us.”
The series, which ran for three seasons and a Christmas Special, starred Delaney, Keith McErlean and Don Wycherley as Michael, Barry and Raymond - three hapless pals trying to get their heads around adulthood.
Looking back at fond memories the trio made during the three summers of filming, the proud Dubliner described the capital as “the fourth star of the show”.
Speaking to Ray D’Arcy on RTE radio one, he said: ”I remember one journalist at the time writing, ‘I live in Bachelors Walk, but I wish I lived in their Bachelors Walk - it looks like Paris!’
“It just caught the imagination.
“Also, I think the three central characters - everybody had a mate like one of them.
“”We ended up shooting it over three summers, which were just brilliant.
“Sure, it wasn’t work at all, Ray!
“We were sitting in Mulligan’s drinking pints at 8 o’clock in the morning!”
Asked if they were real pints, he added: “Clearly, I can’t comment on something like that.
He went on to joke, “Let’s just say there were often lunchtime naps taken!”
The dad-of-four, who said the show will be brand new to his sons, added that he hopes viewers will join him on a stroll down memory lane when the much-loved Noughties comedy returns to RTÉ2 from Monday, April 20.
He said: “I think it’s that thing of an oul’ walk down memory lane.”
