Beara locals immortalised in Jordan movie

THERE was a hint of Hollywood in the air over a west Cork fishing port as locals flocked to see themselves in a movie premiere.

Neil Jordan’s Ondine received its first Irish screening in a mobile cinema parked outside Beara Community Hall in Castletownbere.

The film, which was shot on location in the Beara Penninsula over three months in the summer of 2008, and features several local fishermen, co-op workers and characters, goes on general release today.