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08th Jan 2016

The newsreader who claimed Saoirse Ronan for Britain has been defending himself on Twitter

Carl Kinsella

We can’t lie…

This chap should probably just put the shovel down.

Irish people tend to be very proud and protective of their celebrities, and we don’t take well to the UK stealing our stuff in general – so when they brazenly claim someone like Saoirse Ronan as British, we roll our eyes at best and lose the rag at worst.

So when Richard Stuchet pulled this one earlier…

https://twitter.com/shanesmith32/status/685444236792229889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

… we didn’t take it kindly. But we were willing to let him off with a warning until he started running his gob on Twitter in response to an RTÉ tweet.

https://twitter.com/SkySuchet/status/685496430979584002

https://twitter.com/SkySuchet/status/685503743262109697

So smug. I think we can all agree – what a knob.

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Saoirse Ronan