Hack slings mud at ‘pug-ugly low-born Celt’
In her Evening Standard review of his new movie The Sapphires, film critic Charlotte O’Sullivan described the Roscommon actor as a kind of Celtic Hugh Grant. “It’s oddly delightful that Grant’s schtick has been recycled by a pug-ugly, low-born Celt,” she wrote.
Actress Amy Huberman was so shocked she swore, but well within the Twitter word count. Comedian Des Bishop wondered if Ms O’Sullivan had watched one-too-may episodes of Game of Thrones. Chris O’Dowd tweeted that he was confused, not at being called “pug-ugly” but at the reference to him as a “low-born Celt”. Various opinions were tweeted. Maybe he was born in a basement? In a submarine? Maybe his mother was squatting while giving birth? Or could it mean he was born in a hut, sometime before 1890? One twitterista suggested it meant he was “not posh, a commoner, a scrub”.
Alas, the only woman to explain what she actually meant was not tweeting. Ms O’Sullivan was thought to be researching the origins of her own surname to see if she could possibly be the seed, breed and spawn of a pug-ugly low-born Celt.
