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How to Get to Heaven from Belfast cast | Where you’ve seen them before

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast cast | Where you’ve seen them before

Published by Daniella Wilson

The creator of Derry Girls, Lisa McGee, has returned with another TV series – and she’s assembled some familiar faces to do so. The new Netflix comedy-thriller, which is titled How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, revolves around three friends who are brought together for an Odyssey across Ireland and beyond after learning that one of their childhood friends has died. Derry Girls stars Saoirse-Monica Jackson and Sinéad Keenan appear in the cast, as well as other Irish talent including Roísín Gallagher. But who else stars and what have you seen them in before? Read on to find out about the cast of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. How to Get to Heaven from Belfast cast: Where you’ve seen them before The full cast list for How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is below. Scroll on to find out more about the main characters, plus where you may have seen the actors previously. Roísín Gallagher as Saoirse Sinéad Keenan as Robyn Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara Tom Basden as Seb Art Campion …

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast cast speak on potential season 2

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast cast speak on potential season 2

Published by Daniella Wilson

Lisa McGee’s latest comedy, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, has landed with a bang on Netflix and while it continues to hold the top spot on the streamer’s charts, fans are left wondering just whether or not it could be returning for more. Things in the final episode were pretty much wrapped up but did leave on quite the ominous cliffhanger, superbly setting up the potential for further episodes. But what are the cast’s hopes for a second season? When chatting exclusively to Radio Times, Caoilfhionn Dunne joked and said that she’d hope for a “different car”. As we know, the trio were often seen trudging across Ireland in search for answers and so, a souped-up vehicle certainly wouldn’t go amiss, we can imagine. How To Get To Heaven From Belfast (L-R) Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse Shaw, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara Friel, Sinead Keenan as Robyn Winters. Christopher Barr / Netflix Roísín Gallagher, who plays Saoirse, added: “I would just love to keep telling the story and I really hope that people watch it …

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast Is somehow too much and not enough

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast Is somehow too much and not enough

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add How to Get to Heaven from Belfast to your watchlist It’s hard work following up a seminal series like Derry Girls, and while many may try to draw comparisons between the Channel 4 comedy and Lisa McGee’s glossy new series, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, there are minimal parallels to be drawn. That’s because, rightfully so, this new show is a completely different beast. Not that it was ever in any doubt, but McGee crafts an entirely encompassing and vibrant world in her new series – it’s just that it’s quite befuddling and really rather stressful. The series doesn’t fit neatly into any category box and while How to Get to Heaven from Belfast has been seen to be a comedy, it has elements of a thriller, a mystery drama and also, more surprisingly, a ghost story. It deals in the surreal, while also being grounded in the joyous mundanity of friendship groups and their shifting dynamics as we age. It gives us messy women, complicated lives and avoidant personalities – all …

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast review: A bonkers, brilliant return from the creator of Derry Girls

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast review: A bonkers, brilliant return from the creator of Derry Girls

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter How do you follow up a show like Derry Girls? Over the course of three seasons, Lisa McGee’s comedy, set in her home city during the tail end of the Troubles and laden with semi-autobiographical elements, snowballed from an in-the-know Channel 4 favourite to a near-universally beloved Netflix hit. The five lead characters – four girls and a “wee English fella” – now grace a mural near Derry’s famous city walls, grinning in their green Catholic school uniforms. For her next act, McGee has shifted her focus… 70 miles or so down the road. This time around, she’s still chronicling female friendship, and yes, there are a few flashback scenes that could well have been plucked from her previous show. But although How to Get to Heaven from Belfast might not be all that far from Derry Girls in geographical terms, …

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast Reviews: Critics Hail ‘Hilarious’ Series

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast Reviews: Critics Hail ‘Hilarious’ Series

Published by Sam Flores

The creator of Derry Girls, Lisa McGee, has a new show to cure your February blues. Amid the never-ending rain in the UK, Netflix has released How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, a new comedy crime caper starring Irish actors Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan, and Caoilfhionn Dunne as three childhood friends with a huge skeleton in their closet. The trio of childhood friends is summoned to the eerie fictional village of Knockdara in County Donegal after they learn about the death of their estranged friend, and soon discover that there is more to the situation than meets the eye. This starts the women on an eccentric odyssey through rural Ireland, and their past. Critics are in love with this new crime drama, praising the balance of thrills and comedy. and highlighting the performances from the ensemble cast, which also includes Ardal O’Hanlon, Emmett J. Scanlan and Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson. Here’s a selection of what the critics are saying about How To Get To Heaven From Belfast so far… “It’s all written with McGee’s …

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack | Every song featured

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack | Every song featured

Published by Daniella Wilson

While the subject matter and twists of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast are enough to keep you going, the Netflix series certainly doesn’t shy away from its fair share of epic needledrop moments. The music of the series is one of the main draws of the new Lisa McGee comedy-drama, with tracks from the likes of B*Witched, Atomic Kitten, S Club 7 and Tatu transporting us right back to our younger years. There’s also, much to McGee’s personal delight, plenty of Girls Aloud – a group with Derry connections (Nadine Coyle) that McGee couldn’t have used in seminal comedy series Derry Girls due to the timeline. Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com, McGee said: “I think because Girls Aloud has a Derry girl in it, that felt fun to sort of work that in. Some of the tracks in Derry Girls that we had to use, we cut off at ’98. So Girls Aloud, I could never use. I was like ‘Well, I’m using them now – all the time!’.” As for whether the music …

‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub | Zack Polanski

‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub | Zack Polanski

Published by Sam Flores

WAKEFIELD 17 JANUARY 2026 “I’m dying for a wee,” Zack Polanski says as he gets off the train at Wakefield Westgate. Why didn’t you go on the train, I ask? “It was very busy and too many people recognised me on the way to the toilet. I knew I’d never get there for all the conversations, so I came back.” When did it become hard for him to go to the toilet on a train? “2 September,” he says. “The day I was elected.” At first, I wonder if Polanski is bigging himself up, but over the next couple of weeks I see for myself he is not exaggerating. While Polanski says it’s not, and cannot be, about one individual, in Green circles there is much talk of the Polanski effect. Since he was elected in September 2025, the Greens have risen by an average of four points in the polls. Just before going to press, the Guardian’s latest poll tracker had the party at 13.5%, only five points behind Labour, on 18.6%; 20% of …

How Shaker Design Crafts Visions of Heaven on Earth

How Shaker Design Crafts Visions of Heaven on Earth

Published by José Betancourt

Just as the new movie The Testament of Ann Lee brings the Shakers back into the public eye, an exhibition at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art celebrates the movement’s lasting contributions to art and design. “The Shakers: A World in the Making” is a collaboration between the ICA, Vitra Design Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Shaker Museum that brings historic Shaker objects into dialogue with contemporary art, including works newly commissioned for the show. A religious sect founded in the late 18th century by an Englishwoman named Ann Lee, the Shakers emigrated to the United States and established communities dedicated to both shared living and celibacy. The latter would hardly seem conducive to an expanding influence, but the Shakers managed to gather over 4,000 members (some estimates have it as high as 6,000) at their peak in the 19th century. Their lives of devotion involved crafting a vision of heaven on earth through exquisitely made everyday objects: brooms, chairs, and oval boxes that radiate a quiet perfection. Related Articles Amanda Seyfried and ensemble …

Madonna says Margate is ‘her idea of heaven’ — here’s what won her over

Madonna says Margate is ‘her idea of heaven’ — here’s what won her over

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more When the Queen of Pop called the Kentish town of Margate her “idea of heaven”, I knew I had to see it for myself. Stepping off the train after an 80-mile trip from London, I was immediately met by a riot of murals, thoughtful graffiti and street art. With its dense concentration of studios, galleries and grassroots creative spaces, it is clear art does not just exist here, it’s woven into the town’s fabric. That may help explain why Madonna has become a regular presence on the south-east coast. Her latest visit coincided with Margate’s Off Season winter art festival, where the Material Girl singer appeared in support of her friend Dame Tracey Emin. open image in gallery Madonna posted a series of pictures …

‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna reveals her love for UK seaside town

‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna reveals her love for UK seaside town

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more With its sandy beach, popular market and growing arts scene, more and more visitors have been visiting Margate amid an impressive revival for the Victorian seaside town – but its latest tourist has taken it to new fame. Posting on her Instagram profile to her 20million followers, Madonna shared pictures from her visit to an arts festival in the town last weekend, the second time she has reportedly visited in three months. Pictured with Turner Prize winner Dame Tracey Emin, she praised her friend’s “quite remarkable” residency programme for artists in the community, before providing a glowing review on the town, which has a population of just over 60,000 and is around 80 miles from London. “The whole town seems to be inhabited and …