Top Gun:  Maverick was most commercially successful movie of the year in Ireland

 Tom Cruise plays Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick.

A sequel to a Hollywood blockbuster from the 1980s was the biggest hit in Irish cinemas last year taking in over €6m at the box office.

New figures from the Irish Film Classification Office show the action-adventure film Top Gun: Maverick was the most commercially successful movie of the year in Ireland.