The Irish mammy has her Hollywood uses... just ask Saoirse

UNLIKE the succession of Hollywood ingénues who stumbled out of Harvey weinstein’s hotel suite in a state of disarray, Saoirse Ronan, right, was spared the horrors of the casting couch. ‘I was very lucky that I was protected from all of that,’ she says. ‘I never was exposed to what went on at parties, I was never left on my own with anyone; my mom and dad were always around.’ ah the much derided Irish mammy and daddy – they have their uses.