Pat Shortt will be flying The Flag for Ireland in new comedy drama

Pat Shortt and Ruth Bradley star in a new comedy drama from the makers of much-loved TV show, Pure Mule, writes Esther McCarthy

IRELAND’S 1916 centenary commemorations get the big-screen treatment in The Flag, a new Irish movie starring Pat Shortt and Ruth Bradley.

Part comedy, part drama, and set around an outrageous heist, the film tells the story of a down-on-his-luck Irish emigrant, named Harry (Shortt), living in London.Upon hearing that a flag his father hung on the GPO during the 1916 Rising is now upside down on a wall in an English barracks, Harry sets about assembling a motley crew to steal it back.