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Wed 02 Feb 2010Irish have five stars at Oscar nominations

IT IS not every day a workplace gets to knock off early and head to the pub, but then not every workplace gets an Oscar nomination.

“It was like winning a World Cup final. We were all going crazy,” said Nicky Phelan, director of Brown Bag Films, after its animated short Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beautywas announced as an Academy Award nominee.