Eimear Ryan: Why the need to treat Lee Keegan and Aidan O’Shea so differently?

Keegan’s brilliance is often leveraged against O’Shea, which feels both unfair and beside the point

Aidan O'Shea, left, and Lee Keegan of Mayo after the 2020 All-Ireland final. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Last Saturday evening, both Lee Keegan and Aidan O’Shea were trending. Twitter is a naturally polarising environment, and people only tend to trend for positive or negative reasons.

To see that a beloved elderly celebrity trending is to panic, for a moment, that they’ve gone and died. (A relief, then, to see that they’re just appearing on Celebrity Masterchef or have finally been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.)