Blue Lights: The man behind the music of hit NI police drama

Blue Lights – which was co-created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson – launched to more than seven million viewers last year.

The drama follows a batch of newly qualified officers navigating policing in post-conflict Northern Ireland.

The series two finale will be screened on BBC One on Monday.

Eoin has composed the score for series one and two of Blue Lights, along with its theme tune.

The creative process, he said, takes around six months and the work is all done from a studio based at his home in Derry.

“In series two I was brought into production much earlier” he told BBC Radio Foyle’s North West Today programme.

“I spent a lot of time talking to Adam Patterson.

“There was an idea of really wanting to emphasise Belfast as more of a character.

“You have the drone shots of the city and sunrises and I was given the space for the music to accompany that – giving me free rein to be heard and not compete with the dialogue.

“It was really cinematic and I had a lot of fun with it,” he said.