Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
Robert Arkins
Michael Aherne
Angeline Ball
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Dave Finnegan
Bronagh Gallagher
Félim Gormley
Glen Hansard
Dick Massey
Johnny Murphy
Ken McCluskey
Andrew Strong
Colm Meaney
Anne Kent
Andrea Corr