The Street - 3 ª Season

Paddy Gargan, landlord of the Greyhound pub, bans Calum Miller for smoking, antagonizing the boy's father Tom, a dodgy business-man who nonetheless subsidizes the pub's soccer team and threatens to pulverize Paddy if the ban is not lifted by the next afternoon. Because of Tom's support for them, the football team will not lend Paddy supportive muscle, and Paddy is indeed beaten to a pulp. But that evening he scores a moral victory, resulting in the bullied Calum and his mother walking out on Tom Miller.

Dee is a divorcee with two little boys. Mark is a plumber, also a single parent with a daughter, who comes out to replace Dee's ancient heating system. They date and he introduces her to his parents, Nessa and Joe. Nessa is lovely but Joe knows Dee because she works as a prostitute to help make ends meet and he has seen her professionally. He tells her to leave Mark, which she does, but the truth comes out into the open and the two men fight. Ultimately Dee gives up the oldest profession for domesticity with Mark and the kids.

Young Nick Calshaw returns from fighting the war in Afghanistan with half his face terribly scarred by a female suicide bomber. His family and schoolteacher girlfriend Gemma are horrified but try to act normally for his sake, but he fails to get his old job back and feels that people stare at him. After causing a scene in public he admits to his best friend that he should have shot the suicide bomber but failed to because she had a baby with her; as a result some other lads were killed and he was disfigured. Following a row with Gemma he deliberately steps in front of a taxi whose Muslim driver Hasam takes him to hospital, saving his life. An appreciative Nick is given some hope as to the good in people and invites Hasam to his wedding to Gemma, where his family all support him.

Kieran Corrigan resents all foreigners, abuses Polish bus drivers, barks at the African staff in the kitchen where he is head chef, and walks out of a blind date with a Black woman. It is then ironic that he becomes a hero for saving 7-year-old Polish girl Anna from a house fire, and more ironic because the real saviour was his friend Duffy, who dares not own up because he is on invalidity benefit. Friendship with Anna's mother Olenka softens Kieran's outlook on immigrants, and by the time Olenka and Anna return to Poland, he has changed for the better.

Shay Ryan is an alcoholic following an armed robbery in the bookies' where he worked. One day ex-girlfriend Madeleine tells him that they have a 16-year-old son, Otto, who wants to see him, and he is ecstatic, though he initially rejects the lad when he turns out to have Down syndrome. Having lost his lodgings and his job because of his drinking, Shay sees Otto as a motivation for staying sober but it is very hard and he hits rock bottom, being rescued from living on the street by kind neighbour Nick. Madeleine has given him six months to get off the drink. If he can succeed, he can be more a part of their son's life.