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Patrick Frederick Paddy Kirk is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Dominic Brunt. Paddy demonstrates the dedication of the soap’s writers towards maintaining a comedic tone in plotlines. While he has appeared at the centre of some grave storylines Paddy is often a manifestation of the faintly ridiculous. His bumbling ways and perpetual ill luck act as an amusing antithesis to the sometimes traumatic incidents which befall those around him.