Robert Sheehan has traded Laois for LA

Having shot to fame in Misfits and Love/Hate, Robert Sheehan returns to Ireland as a rapidly rising Hollywood star, writes Padraic Killeen.

THERE’S a fine array of stars touching down in Ireland this week for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, among them Russell Crowe, Julie Andrews and Kenneth Branagh. Flying in direct from Hollywood, meanwhile, is one of our very own: Robert Sheehan (Love/Hate, Misfits). The Laois native has been based in Los Angeles for the past few years and he returns to Ireland in promotion of his new movie, The Road Within, in which he plays a young man suffering with Tourette’s syndrome.