It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.

Michael Angelis
as Mike

Bernard Hill
as Bernard

Ray McAnally
as Billy McRacken

Tom Georgeson
as Mr Ross

Joanne Whalley
as Cheryl

James Ellis
as Paddy Burke

Avis Bunnage
as Martha Gorman

J.G. Devlin
as George Gorman

Elvis Costello
as Rosco De Ville

Michael Ripper
as Tony Bonaparte