ONCE WE WERE PUNKS Director: Frank Shouldice 96 mins, Ireland, 2025, Digital Please enable cookies if you want to view this trailer Book cinema tickets OPENS MAY 22ND 1980s Bailieboro, Co. Cavan, four school friends Justin, David, Noel and Paddy form a punk band and set their sights on world domination. They have fun but not a huge amount of talent and when the big breakthrough fails to materialise, they retire gracefully, allowing careers, adulthood, and emigration to intervene. But when they meet up at a funeral 25 years later they find themselves picking up where they left off. Frank Shouldice (The Man Who Wanted to Fly) has found another bunch of witty, self-effacing Cavan men to beguile us as they reignite friendships and their musical youth. Journalist and author Eamon Carr, co-founder and drummer with Horslips, will host the opening night Q&A on Friday 22nd with band members Justin Kelly, Dave Meagher, Paddy Glackin, and film director Frank Shouldice. Director: Frank Shouldice 96 mins, Ireland, 2025, Digital Please enable cookies if you want to view this trailer