Route Irish

Route Irish follows a British private security contractor working in Iraq whose closest friend is killed on the road linking Baghdad's airport to the international zone, a route known by that name. He refuses to accept the official account of the death and, consumed by grief, returns to Liverpool and begins his own investigation into what really happened.

Ken Loach directed the film, the fifteenth of the twenty features he has made in chronological order, arriving between Looking for Eric and The Angels' Share. Paul Laverty wrote the screenplay, with Rebecca O'Brien and Pascal Caucheteux producing. Mark Womack leads as Fergus, alongside John Bishop as Frankie, with Andrea Lowe, Trevor Williams, Geoff Bell and Jack Fortune among the twenty-four credited cast members; sixty-four crew are credited.

Released in 2011, the film is a co-production involving Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and France, with a worldwide box office of about one million dollars. On IMDb it holds 6.4 out of 10 from roughly five thousand votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6 out of 10 from just over a hundred votes. A critics' rating of 5.9 out of 10 from thirty reviews places it slightly below the audience scores on IMDb.