Anyone familiar enough with the Irish psyche, but detached enough to analyze it, will have noticed that much of the antagonism towards Bailey relates to his combination of sex appeal and Englishness. While the murder victim, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, looked like she could have been “one of our own” with her light-ginger hair and pale, freckly skin (it’s easy to picture Saoirse Ronan playing her in a movie adaptation), Bailey ticked all the wrong boxes in an Ireland that still suffers from post-Colonial hang-ups….