Arts Interview: Northern lights
A new film about the man who brought the Undertones to the world is also a celebration of the best of Belfast, writes Eamon Sweeney.
After a winter of discontent marred by the Union flag protests, riots, public disorder and the doomsday talk of a possible return to the darker days of the Troubles, Belfast is buzzing about a locally-made movie about an eccentric one-eyed musical impresario named Terri Hooley.
Despite his new-found celluloid fame, the man who released Teenage Kicks by the Undertones responded to a recent Facebook campaign to get Hooley to run for Lord Mayor ...