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Dunne Leery
Joe Lapira Joined: 02 Mar 2020 Location: Manchester Status: Offline Points: 13 |
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Have we got many on here ? A fair few English born and bred with Irish parents still support Ireland .I made the decision to aged 9 or 10 and don't intend to switch thirty plus years later.
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Darren
500 Club la la la Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Location: Londain Status: Offline Points: 540 |
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Born in London, but always been 100% Irish
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daithi
Roy Keane Joined: 17 Oct 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 10309 |
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We have a big English born Irish support and have done for generations, and we will always have it
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Just because it's tradition does not make it right
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The White Cafu
Liam Brady Joined: 15 Oct 2015 Status: Offline Points: 2200 |
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Plenty on here, I’m non-irish born myself but lived here basically all my life. Plenty with English accents on away trips also.
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Left foot
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Born in dublin but lived in england for 32 years (left when I was a child)
so accent is more Benedict Cumberbatch than irish. Does that count? Additionally- wife is japanese, son born in England and wears the green with Doherty on the back, has an irish passport and INSISTS he's irish.
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IrishCanadian
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 29 Jun 2019 Status: Offline Points: 219 |
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Canadian born and raised with parents from Carlow. Spent my summers there and loved Roy Keane as a kid so was natural to support Ireland. Even though my dad is a gaa man and never watched football.
It was also a lot easier to support Ireland and Irish players because they were always televised or easy to find streams. The coverage of Canadian football was abysmal at time so it was almost impossible for me to even support Canada and only really Paul Stalteri would ever be on tv during his time in the Premier League.
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Missy
Liam Brady Joined: 19 Mar 2016 Status: Offline Points: 1027 |
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We are fortunate in enough to have loads of Irish fans born all over the world. I know a few who dont even qualify for passport anymore their parents and Grandparents couldn't be arsed to get an Irish passport. These guys are are Irish as the rest of us by us I mean Irish supporters and they are more Irish than EPL barstoolers who only know we have a team when it's a play off or we are playing British Provinces or qualify. They really are more Irish than most of the Irish are themselves.
Our teams may not always have non Irish born players but our fan base always will have non Irish born members as the Catalpa song Irish to the core goes "some may speak with foreign tones but for Ireland boys you never walk alone "
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All opinions are my own and have f**k all to do with Mullingar RISSC CRISC Ticket Office or the FAI
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15687 |
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Some real hardcore fans i must say .
Quite a few are well know on here as well .
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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JUICEBOMB
Liam Brady Joined: 06 Oct 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2089 |
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Or frank yallop!!!!!
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hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard
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TheMightyQuinn
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 452 |
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Graham Leggat and Bob Lenarduzzi did their best On TSN’s Soccer Saturday, but the coverage was definitely weak until the late 90’s.
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You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
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Dunne Leery
Joe Lapira Joined: 02 Mar 2020 Location: Manchester Status: Offline Points: 13 |
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Growing up in South Manchester in the 70s and 80s I would say half the classes at catholic schools were Irish descent.Most with two parents would support Ireland over England although some have jumped ship to England ,most haven't that I know of.One Irish parent and grandparents was probably more England but some still went for Ireland. It often depended on how often they went to Ireland kids who went every summer were more likely to put Ireland first opposed to those who rarely or never went to Ireland on holiday.
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Bham_McDermott
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 13 Jan 2019 Location: Crois Araild Status: Offline Points: 269 |
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Birmingham for 25 years, parents from Ros & Mayo, living in Dublin now since last year, never in doubt massive bog head on me for a start, and a name to match it as well
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I don't agree with THAT, in the workplace!
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Paulie
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Why Dublin and not Ireland?
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Bham_McDermott
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 13 Jan 2019 Location: Crois Araild Status: Offline Points: 269 |
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You wouldn't be shocked at the amount of people who have genuine surprise (or disgust) when they hear what accent comes out of my mouth... but cheers man, just means I can see Villa let me down less and Mayo more frequently
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I don't agree with THAT, in the workplace!
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Bham_McDermott
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 13 Jan 2019 Location: Crois Araild Status: Offline Points: 269 |
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The same reason if you ask half the country folk in Cassidys on Sunday night - work
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I don't agree with THAT, in the workplace!
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Bham_McDermott
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 13 Jan 2019 Location: Crois Araild Status: Offline Points: 269 |
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Liverpool has a reputation of being a big Irish descended city over the decades but I think Birmingham is undersold on the scale of how much bigger it was, think I read about 4 times more. Third biggest parade in the world behind Dub & NYC. Give St Patrick's parade Digbeth a Google. Some great pubs in Digeth owned by Irish gaffers still going there I am friends with, Hennesseys, Spotted Dog, Clearys, Nortons.
If you went to a Catholic school in Birmingham, or the West Midlands from say 70s-(twenty)10s, strong strong chance your parents or grandparents would have been Irish. Half of my year at school were Boyles/Doyles/Coyles/Byrnes/Finnegans/Mc's & O's and pretty much any common name in between, just with a Brummie accent. Christ, camogie was in the curriculum to be played at Birmingham council schools for the girls, think it only recently stopped in the last 5 years or so. The Sacred Heart by Villa Park, recently taken over by Limerick/Donegal crowd but was in the hands of a Roscommon crowd for years and had every county GAA jersey on the walls, great for the Irish descent/Catholic community before games drinking with people you would be either related, worked on jobs or went to school with. Still going now but probably not the same now as back in the day, but by far the best by the ground for me anyhow. A lot of the Builds & Civil contractor still going in the West Midlands today are owned by Irish fellas that came over on the boat for work in the 40s/50s/60s as young bucks, and built up an empire, or either their sons run it now if they've died... When Hitler was heading for Poland, and Paddy, for Holyhead
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I don't agree with THAT, in the workplace!
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Bham_McDermott
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 13 Jan 2019 Location: Crois Araild Status: Offline Points: 269 |
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& Sean G, if you see this, you can relate to us being dragged to every Feis across Birmingham & Coventry every Saturday morning to watch our sisters
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I don't agree with THAT, in the workplace!
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