Mrs Brown boost for Brendan O’Carroll coffers

Pre-tax profits at Brendan O’Carroll’s movie firm last year rocketed more than threefold to €578,886.

The massive leap in profits for O’Carroll’s Boc Pix Ltd coincided with the release last year of his Irish blockbuster movie, Mrs Brown’s Boys: D’ Movie.

The film about the foul- mouthed mammy was the top-grossing Irish movie of 2014, taking in €3.8m at the box office. In its opening weekend alone, in the UK and Ireland it took in £4.3m (€6m). The movie’s total box office gross in the UK and Ireland was £14.7m (€20.5m).