Oscars academy honours for Irish artists

FOUR Irish artists have been invited to join the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body which nominates and votes on the Oscars each year.

The announcement that Saoirse Ronan, Darragh O’Connell, Bono and The Edge are to join the 6,000 -member academy was made in Los Angeles yesterday.

O’Connell founded Brown Bag Films, which has been nominated twice for an Oscar, this year for Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty and five years ago for Give Up Yer Aul Sins.