Roy is an Irish animated children's television series which was broadcast by TRTÉ in Ireland, CBBC in the United Kingdom and ABC3 in Australia and aired from 1 July 2009 to 1 April 2015. The show centres on the title character Roy O'Brien, the 11-year-old animated son of a live-action family, as he settles into his new school in a suburb of Dublin. It stars , Simon Delaney, Cathy Belton and Martha Byrne. Filming began on a third and fourth series in January 2013. The third series began airing on 23 January 2014, and the fourth began airing 20 January 2015.