Producer delights in bringing Oscar glory to Ireland

AN IRISH film producer said last night he was delighted to bring back the country’s first Oscar for 14 years.

The short film Six Shooter was the first Irish film to triumph at the annual Hollywood awards ceremony since Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game, which won the Oscar for best screenplay in 1992.

As the cast of Six Shooter publicly displayed the Oscar in Dublin for the first time, the film’s producer John McDonnell said it was a great boost for the industry.