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07th Jan 2016

Golden Globes website describes this German-born Irishman as ‘English’

JOE

This again.

How you can describe a man who was born in Heidelberg to a German father and Irish mother, before moving to Killarney at the age of two and spending his entire childhood and adolescence in Kerry, as ‘English-born’ is beyond us.

The official Golden Globes website, however, has managed it.

Fassbender

German? Yes. Irish? Yes. English? Not one bit.

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