{"id":402926,"date":"2026-04-17T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:03:15","slug":"donal-lynch-jessie-buckley-and-paul-mescal-should-run-a-mile-from-the-craic-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402926\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3nal Lynch: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal should run a mile from \u2018The Craic Pack\u2019"},"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\">Vulture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal having what can only be described as a bit of craic. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3dd33746-8c71-4987-9217-1b31629ae1e2.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)\">Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal having what can only be described as a bit of craic. 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)\">Am I alone in throwing up a little in my mouth at the mention of \u201cThe Craic Pack\u201d? Yes, this is the name that\u2019s being ascribed \u2013 most recently in an article in the UK last week \u2013 to our band of young actors who are doing so well. <\/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)\">You think you know the names. There\u2019s Jessie Buckley, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal, of course, but also, in a surprising sign of the times, English actors like Josh O\u2019Connor who might be friends with Buckley and Mescal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulture Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal having what can only be described as a bit of craic. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5456,49654,17202,29575,93,61,60,312,5042,6992],"class_list":{"0":"post-402926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-barry-keoghan","10":"tag-derry-girls","11":"tag-donal-lynch","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jessie-buckley","16":"tag-paul-mescal","17":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402926","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=402926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}