TV Preview

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

+ Q&A with writer, creator and executive producer Lisa Mcgee, director Michael Lennox, and actors Caoilfhionn Dunne, Roísín Gallagher and Sinéad Keenan

From the writer and creator of Derry Girls, Lisa McGee, comes the new series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

  • Director

    Michael Lennox

  • With

    Roísín Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan, Caoilfhionn Dunne

  • Netflix 2026. Episode 1 50min. Total running time 90min

The new drama by Lisa McGee, the creator of Derry Girls, focuses on chaotic TV writer Saoirse, stressed-out mother of three Robyn and dependable carer Dara. They grew up together in a quiet northern Ireland town and have remained a tight-knit group. When an email informs them about the death of the estranged fourth member of their childhood gang, they decide to go to her wake. But a series of eerie events take place as they travel across Ireland and a dark childhood secret appears threatens to be revealed.

Tickets £17, concessions £14 (Members pay £2.50 less).