Eileen’s comedic bickering graduates to the big screen

For the past five years, she has wowed audiences in community halls and theatres all over Co Cork — now a middle-aged, control-freak housewife from West Cork is the star of a new film.

Eileen’s comedic bickering graduates to the big screen

Eileen O’Brien is a passive-aggressive, Tupperware-obsessed West Cork matron and Daniel O’Donnell fan.

She is also the focus of a hugely popular string of cabaret comedies built around her turbulent relationship with her best friend and distant relative Marilyn, an elegant but needy blow-in from England who drinks too much.

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