Ripper Street: Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg show Irish Minister for Arts Jimmy Deenihan around the deadly Dublin set of Ripper Street By J J ANISIOBI PUBLISHED: 18:25 EST, 24 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:26 EST, 24 May 2012 (MAIL ON LINE)

Scandalous scenes and gruesome places of death are not the ideal surroundings for an important minister to hang around in.

Luckily for Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, it was only a TV set he was visiting as he was shown around the Dublin based Ripper Street.

The thriller, which stars Mr Darcy Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn, is set in London's east end in 1889 when the killer - or killers, the Ripper's identity is still a mystery - was at large.

Deenihan was given a personal tour of the set by actors Flynn and Adam Rothenberg, and the local MP looked to be enjoying what he saw.

The three men wandered around the purpose built set and discussed the grisly scenes and murders that took place over a century ago courtesy of Jack the Ripper.

Even the sight of a char-grilled contorted dead body lying on a table wasn't enough to scare Deenihan as he and his aides took pictures of the specially made victim.

Ripper Street will be an eight-part series that focuses on two 19th century detectives who tried to catch the serial killer on the job.

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