Walking On Cars have been announced as winners of a European Border Breakers Award for success outside their own country.

It’s been quite a year for the Dingle five-piece. Their debut album ‘Everything This Way’ was the biggest selling debut album by an Irish act in Ireland in 2016, and has to date sold over 215,000 copies worldwide.

The award has previously been won by Irish acts such as by SOAK, Hozier and The Script.

Other winners at this year’s EBBAs include Spain’s Hinds, and the UK’s  Dua Lipa .

Walking On Cars and the other EBBA winners will perform live at the EBBA ceremony presented by Jools Holland, which will be broadcast throughout the EU later this yar.