Irish Examiner View: Our hope for change must not be blind

Sinn Féin are the main beneficiaries and drivers of this winnowing.

When, at Sunday night’s Oscars a clip from the 1960 epic Spartacus is shown to honour Kirk Douglas, who has died aged 103, cinema will remember a man born Issur Danielovitch Demsky just eight months after our 1916 Rising.

It is a neat coincidence that Spartacus is a story of revolution and sacrifice even if it is almost as long as The Irishman.