Rory McIlroy. Michael Fassbender. Lenny Abrahamson. Saoirse Ronan.
They’re all as Irish as a peat briquette smothered in Kerrygold, except those UK media vultures keep claiming them as their own. Even the great Jeff Stelling has done it.
Thankfully, multi-Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seán Burke is on the case and he has finally found the reason why our neighbours keep misappropriating our sport stars, our actors, our fellow countrymen (unless they’ve become embroiled in a sex or drugs scandal, in which case their Irishness goes unquestioned).
This will open your eyes to the great conspiracy at play here, and will hopefully bring about some change.
*But they can keep Bob Geldof.
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