IFCO logs complaints over 'moronic' portrayal of Irish people in 'Banshees of Inisherin'

Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan in 'The Banshees of Inisherin'. Picture: Jonathan Hession

The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) has received complaints about the portrayal of Irish people as “moronic” in the Oscar-nominated film The Banshees of Inisherin, which was described as “extremely offensive” by one correspondent.

There was also criticism about the accuracy of the accents portrayed by the inhabitants of the fictional island that features in the movie, as well as a claim that its reflection of Ireland in the 1920s was ‘wrong’.