You may remember her as the red-haired Carlow girl in the Bord Bia ad in 2014.

Saoirse Ronan was filmed walking through the lush green fields championing sustainable Irish food. Since then, she has been busy in mostly off-farm jobs in faraway places such as Brooklyn.

Saoirse has also been teaching English speakers to pronounce Irish people’s names properly. That’s an ongoing project.

This week, though, Saoirse Ronan was finally recognised with a Golden Globe award for the film Lady Bird.

Outstanding

It’s about time the foreign press gave her something. We in Ireland always knew Saoirse was a girl outstanding in the field.

That Oscar fella over in Hollywood had better have plenty of Irish food on the menu in March.