The Guard, with Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson, above, was the top grossing Irish film of the past 10 years, with €4m ticket sales

The Guard was the most commercially successful Irish film of the past decade at the box office in Ireland.

The 2011 movie, which stars Brendan Gleeson as a wayward police officer who teams up with an American FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle, made more than €4m in ticket sales, according to data from media analytics company Comscore.

Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie was a close second, grossing just under €4m. The spin-off from Brendan O’Carroll’s television series and stage show had the biggest opening weekend of the decade, taking €800,000 in its first two days in cinemas in 2014.

Brooklyn, the 2015 film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel starring Saoirse Ronan, was in third place, making €3m in ticket sales. John Michael McDonagh, who directed