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Written by Martin Kelly

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Gaelic football manager-cum-Republican commander (what are the chances?), John Joe Hegarty, must lead his team to victory in the local championships in order to save the club from the takeover bid of a ruthless mining company.

Under the intrusive eye of an English environmental journalist, Joe John has to contend with a battalion of troubles both on the pitch and below it - moulding the rag-bag players into a match-winning machine, while trying to conceal the secret arms bunker buried beneath their feet.

Martin Kelly's pitch-black comedy is part 'mockumentary' featuring an oddball cast of the daft and the dangerous, set in the absurd world of contemporary rural Northern Ireland.

With its homespun recipe of dry colloquial wit and dirty deadhead shenanigans, Ballyferrus could well do for GAA football what Father Ted did for the priesthood. In development with Hotshot Films financed by the Northern Ireland Film Commission, Ballyferrus will begin production in 2007.