Wagatha Christie: Cork filmmaker to direct Channel 4's Vardy v Rooney court drama

Ballintemple's Oonagh Kearney is tasked with directing a two-part docudrama based on the high-profile defamation case that held social media rapt this year

Filmmaker Oonagh Kearney: directing Channel 4's upcoming dramatisation of the Wagatha Christie case. Picture: Clare Keogh

 UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a dramatic reconstruction of the Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney defamation case.

Two-part docudrama Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama, will recreate the case using the real court transcripts verbatim, juxtaposed with analysis from the media and on social media, while actors will play the parts of the main protagonists including Rebekah Vardy, Coleen Rooney and their soccer-star husbands, Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy.