Paul Mescal and the Great Global Yearning for Earnestness By “Hemlock” O’Donnell, Foreign Correspondent-at-Large DUBLIN—If you stand at the corner of Dame Street and George’s Street at 2:13 a.m., when the kebab grease is still warm and the seagulls have unionised, you can almost hear the planet sigh with relief that Paul Mescal exists. The…
Dublin – Somewhere between a Guinness tap and an IMF spreadsheet – A small island nation that once exported priests, potatoes and property bubbles has, in the last quarter-century, quietly perfected a far more recession-proof commodity: the Gleeson. Not a tax loophole, not a cryptocurrency—just Brendan Gleeson, the 6-foot-2 walking rebuke to every Hollywood algorithm…
**From Dublin to Dystopia: Domhnall Gleeson and the Global Art of Looking Uncomfortable** While the world burns, melts, or simply descends into whatever fresh hell the algorithm serves up today, there’s something perversely comforting about watching Domhnall Gleeson master the universal language of existential dread. The Irish actor has become our global ambassador for looking…
