IFTA nominations: Bad Sisters and Banshees  lead the way at Irish awards  

The Banshees of Inisherin and streaming show Bad Sisters have amassed 23 nominations in the Irish Film & Television Awards, writes Esther McCarthy 

IFTA Nominations: Sharon Horgan of Bad Sisters; and Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin.

 It leads the green charge at this weekend’s Oscars with nine out of a record 14 Irish Academy Awards nominees. So it comes as little surprise that Martin McDonagh’s dark period comedy The Banshees of Inisherin is the leading movie contender at this year’s IFTA Film and Drama awards, with 11 nominations.

Shot in Achill and Inishmore Islands, as Banshees heads to this weekend’s Oscars it also leads this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, while Sharon Horgan’s comedy hit Bad Sisters - about a group of siblings who will go to drastic ends to protect one another - has received 12 nominations in the Drama (TV) categories.