Belle begs Nicole to keep quiet

Belle begs Nicole to keep quiet
Belle begs Nicole to keep quiet

Nicole cottons on to Belle's drug habit and confronts her about it. Belle swears it's under control but Nicole has seen it all before with a friend's mother. Belle begs her not to tell Aden and Nicole agrees, on the condition that it stops - now! Geoff is upset with Nicole for not leaving the concert with them when Annie hurt her ankle. Nicole is angry with Geoff for not even trying to enjoy himself there. They have yet another argument, accusing each other of being selfish. Eventually they make up, but they're both left wondering whether things are really supposed to be this hard. Alf needs an extra pair of hands at the Surf Club. Aden puts Joey forward and she's doing well behind the bar, until Robbo comes in and taunts her. Martha and Charlie are having lunch there and Charlie sees Joey go into the storeroom. She follows her and finds her crying, but she won't explain why. Aden later finds Joey sobbing at the wharf and gets her to open up. She tells him what Robbo did to her the night Aden left her on the boat. Aden is horrified as the realisation hits him... Joey was raped. *Showing on RTE One, Monday March 23* Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, Soap Scoop Get all the latest soap gossip delivered straight to your door. Subscribe to Soaplife magazine today

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.