Irish Oscar hopes hinge on Banshees and Cailín Ciúin

Remember 1989 when all the Oscar heat was centred around My Left Foot? We had enormous success that year. The same energy is building around The Banshees of Inisherin for this weekend’s gong-fest. Notwithstanding my misgivings about Martin McDonagh’s quasi-trad parable, like the rest of the country I’ll be rooting for Messrs Farrell, Gleeson, Keoghan…