Good Vibrations wins Best Irish Feature at Galway Film Fleadh

Good Vibrations, the Terri Hooley biopic co-scripted by Hot Press' Colin Carberry and novelist Glen Patterson, won the Best Irish Feature Award in the Audience Award category at the 24th Galway Film Fleadh.

The film, which is soundtracked by David Holmes, was screened at the Fleadh on Saturday night to a packed audience and was attended Terri Hooley himself, the record shop-owner at the centre of the film and the man who released The Undertones’ ‘Teenage Kicks’.

Set in Belfast during the height of the Troubles in the 70s, Good Vibrations stars Richard Dormer, who has been cast in season three of Game of Thrones, as Hooley in this story of how Terri took on not only the musical establishment but also the paramilitaries during the height of The Troubles.

The film be on general release later this year.