The winner is ... an Irishman, again

YOU WERE reminded of that infamous, early ’80s Oscar ceremony where Chariots of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland warned Hollywood “the British are coming”.

At the recent television Baftas, in London, there was, similarly, a sense the Irish were taking over.

From Brendan O’Carroll to Graham Norton to Sherlock villain Andrew Scott, it seemed every Irish person in the building went home with an award. Even the host, the preternaturally affable Dara Ó Briain, is Irish.