She didn’t quite say he was so ugly, that even Hello Kitty said goodbye, but the film critic’s reference to Chris O’Dowd as a “pug-ugly, low-born Celt” did get the Twitter machine going for a few hours yesterday.

ALL across the country revellers were singing about the perils of forgetting old acquaintances but they were barely into the first verse when the first of the new acquaintances made his presence felt.