{"id":239471,"date":"2026-01-11T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:14","slug":"eilis-ohanlon-stick-to-praising-paul-mescal-jessie-its-better-than-pontificating-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239471\/","title":{"rendered":"Eilis O\u2019Hanlon: Stick to praising Paul Mescal, Jessie \u2014 it\u2019s better than pontificating on politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Buckley\u2019s tribute to her Hamnet co-star at the Critics\u2019 Choice awards was better than the preaching we often hear\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at the Critics Choice Awards in California. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Buckley and Mescal.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at the Critics Choice Awards in California. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The identity of Jessie Buckley\u2019s husband is wrapped in more mystery than the whereabouts of the Ark of the Covenant, or why anyone watches Mrs Brown\u2019s Boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is known that his name is Freddie, that he is British (which is not his fault) and he works in mental health. His surname and age have never been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buckley\u2019s tribute to her Hamnet co-star at the Critics\u2019 Choice awards was better than the preaching we often&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3656,321,42622,93,98266,61,60,312,10495,2625,5042],"class_list":{"0":"post-239471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-catherine-connolly","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eilis-ohanlon","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-golden-globes","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jessie-buckley","16":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","17":"tag-oscars","18":"tag-paul-mescal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}