Tanya Sweeney: ‘Me-espresso-gate’ – Barry Keoghan deserves better than these condescending Irish tropes

Barry Keoghan at the 2024 Met Gala. Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Tanya Sweeney

It’s the sort of tweet that would make you either reach for Google Translate, or assume there’s been a glitch in the matrix.

But no, Vulture — a culture site from the people behind the esteemed New York Magazine — actually did tweet the following as a caption to an image of Barry Keoghan this week: “Hello little lassie, couldja point me in da direction of me missus? She’s got a grand ‘me espresso’ at home that i better be drinkin’.”