For the duration of the show , Ted lives in the Craggy Island Parochial House with the childlike Father Dougal McGuire , the senile , aggressive and alcoholic Father Jack Hackett , and their neurotic housekeeper , Mrs Doyle ( whom Linehan states Ted first met when she won the local Lovely Girls competition ) . He has a bitter rivalry with Father Dick Byrne , a priest living on the nearby Rugged Island . Ted 's experiences throughout the show range from the mundane ( having to protest against a blasphemous film in " The Passion of Saint Tibulus " and rigging a raffle to repair the roof in " Think Fast , Father Ted " ) , to the surreal ( becoming Ireland 's entry for Eurosong 1996 in " A Song for Europe " , and climbing out of a flying plane to fix the fuel line in " Flight Into Terror " ) . In " A Christmassy Ted " , Ted prevents a national scandal by helping seven other priests find their way out of Ireland 's largest department store lingerie section . The Church honours him with the Golden Cleric award . Fathers Ted and Dougal then host the 1997 Comic Relief telethon ( with Morgan and O'Hanlon in character for the duration of the event ) ; when Ted wonders why he has been selected , Dougal suggests that God has planned it to allow Ted a chance to earn forgiveness for his sins by raising money for the charity . In the next episode , the first of series three , " Are You Right There Father Ted ? " , Ted has been transferred to an idyllic parish in Castlelawn , Dublin , but is soon sent back to Craggy Island when irregularities are discovered in his expenses . He later discovers the hard way that there is a Chinatown on Craggy Island and then has to go to great lengths to disprove rumours that he is a racist
Eurosong 1996
Eurovision Song Contest 1996
Father Ted Crilly