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Updated 6pm
HEALTH MINISTER LEO Varadkar has said that while significant progress has been made in tackling the overcrowding crisis in the country’s emergency departments, we’re “not out of the woods yet”.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Marian Finucane he thanked medical staff who had, he said, pulled out all the stops to address the problem over the last week.
“Next week, the junior doctors change over, and that’s always a difficult time in the health service,” the Minister added.
There is some evidence that influenza might be on the way — and if that happens we’ll be in great difficulty.
There’s been a renewed focus on the overcrowding issue in recent days after nursing union the INMO said on Tuesday that the numbers on trolleys had exceeded 600.
Varadkar said official figures showed there were 525 people on trolleys in emergency departments on Tuesday last — the highest number in four years.
Today’s figure was 209, he said, noting that the INMO had changed the way it counted trolleys in recent years to include people in wards.
Either way, he said, the figure was still “far too high”.
“Nobody should be on a trolley for more than nine hours,” he said.
While there are now no patients on trolleys at a number of facilities, there are also a number of hospitals where it’s still a major problem, he said.
In Galway University Hospital, there had been “difficulty finding staff to open beds” while in Drogheda there has been a shortage in “available nursing home beds”.
“A surge like this is not unique to Ireland,” the Minister added, noting that similar problems had been experienced in Belfast.
Fergal Hickey, a consultant in emergency medicine in Sligo General and spokesman for the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, warned earlier this week that the upcoming changeover in junior doctors would result in slower processing of patients.
“Monday is the busiest day in hospitals, by far,” he said.
“Therefore it’s not a particularly good day to be changing over junior medical staff, rather than the middle of the week.”
He said that in “a perfect world” such changeovers should happen at times when hospitals are less busy, in February and in August — rather than in January and July, as currently happens.
Varadkar today also condemned consultants who are refusing to accept new patients, saying this is “unacceptable”. However the minister stressed this is limited to a dozen or half a dozen consultants of the more than 3,000 working in the Irish health system.
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A journalist for Sky News is a contradiction in terms.
rory sucet is French
Leave it to the Master Samuel L Jackson to sum up
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=samuel+l+jackson+kate+thornton&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#imgrc=RbFWmhv6UEBZkM%3A
@ M Bowe
Samuel L Jackson thinks rape is funny (The hateful Eight)
when Martin Landau deservedly won best supporting actor
samuel l jackson was caught on camera saying “Sh-t”
to this day he says ED WOOD is a movie only seen by like 10 people
he sings a song condemning the “racist” police while at the same time ignoring the black on black murder
You are a feckin moron… Samuel’s character thinks it is in the movie. By your thick logic does Anthony Hopkins eat people?
Enda you really are as thick as your aviatarband name sake.
Saoirse na hÉireann!
Ionntach!
Very wet response from RTE second time… They should have gone to town on him or said nothing… Annoying.
Wet? That response betrayed an entire nation. Next time, they should let the Rubber Bandits respond on their behalf. Seriously, what would the 178,578 Dubs who took over the GPO in 1916 have thought? RTE, you’re a disgrace. I’m ringing Joe.
George I believe the spelling is iontach
Go deimhin, tá tú i gceart ach níl mo auto – cheartú chomh cliste mar atá tú!
Please…What’s Joe going to do?..Put Suchet over his knee.
Auto-cheartú as Gaeilge? Níor chuala mé a leithéid de rud riamh, an bhfuil tú i ndáiríre? Nílim comh chliste sin.
Love spell eh? Well I’d love you to f*ck off with this crap, reckon John has a spell for that?
@Erianna. I just vomited.
Cuireann Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2010 – Gaeilge comhéadan úsáideora Gaeilge ar fáil le haghaidh go leor de na ríomhchláir Microsoft Office 2010.
This is a fantastic service….. Please forward on your Bank AC details so I can arrange payment!!
@ Shinner O Bot
and if Saoirse was a Garda
and she was murdered by the IRA
your buddies would call it “manslaughter” and lobby for their release
be grand, sure the Dubs can claim her. She sounds like she’s from South Dublin. Certainly doesn’t sound like a NY/Carlow grown cailín
No it’s not a compliment – it just means whoever said it is a bit stupid. If I call Tony Blair an American, it’s not a compliment, it’s a mistake and means I’m an idiot who makes stupid mistakes.
Ha ha love it
ah sure things could be worse
Couldn’t think of worse insult for an Irish person
The colonial spirit dies slowly in the Brits. These are the kind of people that John Bruton thought would just hand back the country to us.
They can have joan Burton if they want!
C’mon. They’re not that bad.
Burton probably is British and a member of the Conservative party.
” We didn’t get rid of the Brits by throwing cream puffs at them…” – G. Adams.
That little c***
What dumb fcuk
Look britain we’ve trough this before. We may follow your soccer teams (til we die), ignoring our own. We may watch hours of your tv, complaining about our own. We may speak your language, criticising our own. We may shop in your shops and follow your fashions. We may even claim some brits as own own, Daniel day Lewis and big jack, to name but a few. But sweet baby jesus and all that is irish, don’t you ever try to claim one of us as one of yours or there will be social media outrage.
Is that clear?
When has anyone ever called Jack Charlton “Irish”?
And Daniel Day-Lewis has an Irish passport FFS.
Scandinavians speak perfect English, have American twangs in their accents and religiously follow American TV and British football teams.
Is it okay to call Swedish and Norwegian people British?
Jesus give it a fecking rest. Who cares
She was born in New York …
and lets now forget that according to Tatcher , Barry McGuigan was a “true Brit ” when he won his title.
So was Eamon De Valera.
NOT forget that is.
Brilliant
AJ,
Thanks, but I can read.
Brilliant
I think Barry McGuigan boxed for Britain later in his career, I can’t remember his reasons for doing so but I do remember being disgusted with him.
Wikipedia: he became a British citizen so he could compete in British titles.
Hey Hugh G. Johnson. Jack was hailed as an ‘honorary’ Irish man. Thats all tho!
Every week there is one of these stories! It’s sad.
There are no two countries on earth closer than Britain and Ireland so just take it as a compliment and move on!!!
Germany and Austria?
Germany and Netherlands?
I thought it was Bob Geldof that Thatcher said was “a true Brit”..
Agreed Beano ……….
Compared either real problems elsewhere in the world ???
I’d say the Syrians and Koreans would happily do a swop any day …
It must be shit bein a Brit though. They used to have a massive colonial empire; they were basically the first world superpower. Now, no one gives a toss. Everyone else even whips their arses at the crap sports they invented. Hate that..
Jesus… let it go R.J. Thatchers dead. Move on. Bitterness isn’t good for you luv
@ Santa Claus
De Valera and Saoirse were both born in the USA
Germany and Poland?
I think France is almost as close to Britain.
“Now, no one gives a toss.”
Come now Duffy, we both know that’s not even remotely true.
Why, all you have to do is scroll down this page and read some of the more venomous comments to realise that there are still some people out there who we still terrify the living shit out of. Or at least, that’s the only explanation I can come up with for why anyone would feel so threatened by some journo who’s been making a fool of himself.
*Daffy
Stupid auto-correct.
Ill compliment him with the business end of my boot up his english arse
sky news = fox news pure crap sensationalism
It’s owned by the same people so no great surprise there
I’m sure Enda Kenny and John Bruton would take it as a compliment to be described as British.
Not really, I say heir Enda dreams of being German
Tweety Mc Tweeter Its not owned by fox news i.e murdoch . They own a share of the company around 30% . Shy news are like the BBC with a slight left liberal look .
If she loses she will be referred to as Irish…
Everybody in Ireland should start calling these Islands “The Irish Isles” …. a compliment I’d say.
Yes and I know a song to go with it. When Irish isles are smiling
British Isles. Makes my skin crawl. Last time I checked Ireland was a Republic.
It shouldn’t, that’s the power of being an independent republic, we don’t care what the English call our country. (I get galled by Irish people calling the country “republic of Ireland” – the UKs name for it – but wouldn’t get worked up over it).
Worse again.. sometimes we are referred to as Eire. Another anomaly.
She sounds like a west Brit, very annoying accent on that one.
It’s part of our Gaelic history no? Eire is on our passports.. How is it an anomaly?
Alien8, Article 4 of Bunreacht na hÉireann states “The name of the state is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland.” So they’re correct, even if no one actually uses that name here.
The English claiming the Irish thing is mildly annoying but I agree not really worth getting worked up over. I’m sure Saoirse knows where she’s from.
Don Juan even. “Republic of Ireland” is a football team.
Don Juan hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about
“The British Isles” is just a geographical term and has nothing to do with politics or the queen or anything like that.
It’s like Europe is Europe but the British often say they’re going to leave Europe. It’s not physically possible for Britain to leave Europe. They can only leave the EU.
Geographically nothing. Ireland is not part of Britain full stop. Eire is not an actual word. It’s a derivative made up word from the name of a pagan god Eiriu. Eireann is correct as is used correctly in the national anthem.
Ireland specifically refuses to accept the term British Isles and would never refer to it as such.
Don Juan, the word used in Amhrán na bhFiann is ‘Éirinn,’ the dative case of ‘Éire.’ ‘Éireann’ is the genitive case, indicating possession. The word is still ‘Éire.’ Yes, it’s a contrived word. So are lots of words. It’s the correct name of the state in Irish.
What makes that wally think the Irish should be complimented . It’s 2016 not 1916 . Wake up you lot over there
Give her support by all means but don’t verbally distort who she is. Sky news is not called sky opinion but in all honesty it should be
So the fact that she’s an American?
Aidan thankfully nationality isn’t as rigid as or as outdated as you have to be from where you a born and that’s it. Otherwise Saoirse wouldn’t have an Irish passport now would she? The irony of this conversation is the British, especially in sporting terms, would be decimated if such a rule was enforced. I’ll give you a few examples, Bradley Wiggins= Belgian. Chris Froome = Kenyan. Justin Rose = South African. Mike Catt = South African. John Barnes = Jamaican. Owen Hargreaves = Canadian. Raheem Sterling = Jamaican. Terry Butcher = Singapore. We won’t even talk about cricket or the Polynesians in rugby. But you know what, they have all said they are British/English so who are you or me to tell them they are not.
I’m a dub so .
Irish *and* American.
I heard the english media tried to claim the duke of wellington as well…
PJM
John Barnes – Jamaican.
Sorry, didn’t see you already got that one.
Lennox Lewis was Canadian too.
I see my myself as an earthling tbh
They are welcome to him. What was it he said about Ireland. “If a man be born in a stable it doesn’t make him a horse”
Yes. It’s true she’s from around the British Isles. But he needs to realize she’s Irish-American….
Not an ounce of British ancestry, I would imagine.
He wouldn’t ‘be saying the same about Liam Neeson. The man’d look for him, find him and kill him.
Conor the official name is the Atlantic Archipelago, the British Isles is used by the British but it is not recognised internationally. It amazes me how many Irish don’t even know this.
Lol I studied geography in school mate. Not once did that fact ever come up. That’s why I didn’t know it.
You learn something new every day.
In your defence it’s only the last 10 years it being properly enforced and Folens only took the decision to stop publishing the name in maps from 07 onwards.
I never had a Folens edition, pjm. It was a completely different book altogether. As to who published it, I really can’t remember.
Nice info PJM! I never heard it them called that either!
PJM, contrary to your claim that the British Isles as a term ‘is not recognised internationally’, you may find that you’re actually in the minority as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
I suggest you try having a sift through the foreign-language editions of Wikipedia – the site doesn’t seem to allow me to post links, but here’s a quick guide:
French – Îles Britanniques
Italian – Arcipelago Britannico
Spanish – Islas Británicas
Portuguese – Ilhas Britânicas
German – Britische Inseln
Polish – Wyspy Brytyjskie
Russian – Брита́нские острова́ (‘Britanskiye Ostrova’)
For the record, I think the Sky newsreader is being an idiot. At the same time, I hate political doublespeak as far as geography is concerned.
Oh look, even the Basques refer to it as Britainiar uharteak.
Icelandic sagas traditionally refers to it as the western islands (vestrlund), but there has been an increase in the usages of bretlandseyjar, as there are other islands off Iceland called vesterlunds, which were established by Irish Viking concubine’s families.
Harry, in Ireland, we do not refer to Ireland as being part of the British Isles. In fact, the term has been removed from Irish geography books for many, many years.
@pjm that’s interesting. So Ireland is part of an island in the North Atlantic Archipelago. That would make Saoirse Ronan; born on the continent of North America to a British Citizen who moved to an island(Ireland) not far from his original home within the North Atlantic Archipelago. When it’s broken down like that it doesn’t seem as much fun anymore and we should just call her a North Atlantic Archipelagon. See what I did there with the ‘n’, made that up myself.
She’s not Irish-American.
She is just Irish. Irish parents, Irish upbringing; just happened to be born in a different country.
I’m well aware of this, George. I was illustrating a point. Renaming neutral geographical terms for political reasons doesn’t unknit reality and just looks silly in the end.
Greece refuses to recognise that there is a country called Macedonia, simply because part of the area historically known as Macedonia also lies within Greece and they hate the idea of foreigners confusing the two – they will refer to the modern Slavic state as FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and have lobbied incessantly to make other countries adopt this stupid, ugly acronym.
The majority of UN members, thankfully, have refused to go along with this nationalistic baloney and will still refer to it as Macedonia. Including Ireland, as it happens.
The guy that said this is of a Jewish background.
It really is galling that he would have such little respect for another country and its political history considering what his own people suffered through.
But this is the poisonous attitude that pervades through that segment of Britain still.
He should honestly be reprimanded by higher ups for deliberately causing such a public rankle, but we all know where us Irish stand among people who work for Sky News and Fox News.
Just waiting for the first crass comment to be made by someone at Fox News when 1916 is given coverage there: Leprechaun jokes and Bobby Sands starvation jokes abound.
He probably thinks Paris is in Germany as well…
What an arrogant piece of shit
Sky news, the Viagra of new..
S
This is why I hate the ridiculous “British Isles” term. People say it’s simply a ‘geographical’ term as if there’s any such thing. All names are given by someone, there’s always a history and an agenda. No name is just geographical.Then there’s the persistent feeling among many British that Ireland is still British in some way as it’s in the “British’ Isles as we see here.
Infuriating.
The British Isles is a geographic term. It was in usage long before there was any concept of ‘Britain’ as a national-level political entity. It is not and never was meant as a political term. The term has only become politicised through misguided nationalism and false etymology.
Want proof? The official name of the UK is ‘the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’ (and before then ‘the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’). At no point in history was it ever referred to as ‘the United Kingdom of the British Isles’. So much for the ‘agenda’.
The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term[and its embassy in London discourages its use.
This is an example of whats called cultural misappropriation. We need to be allowed to celebrate our victories, rather than having them stolen by the British media. It’s infuriating.
There is no compliment in being called a brit….what an antagonising pr!ck… He could have just said he didn’t mean any insult but no!
Did they rush to claim Jiadi John
Unfortunately this Thatcherite mentality is still prevalent in the UK, especially with the media – thankfully they are a small minority – having said that, I wish a pox upon him :-)
@ Craig Barry
if we had a Thatcherite government.. our woes would have been solved years ago
Have you not yet learned that the English regard the Irish as cavemen?
There was a very good reason for the Easter 1916 Rebellion.
The rebellion was about Irish self respect.
We should respect people who don’t buy into being “British”.
Or that strange family the English kneel and grovel in front of called “The Royals”.
I am a liberal and I love England.
But I would have manned the guns in Dublin in 1916 to get the English out of Ireland.
“Have you not yet learned that the English regard the Irish as cavemen?”
Wow, thank you for speaking on all our behalf Pat.
I do wonder how you managed to get that extra-wide brush through the door.
I suppose that any country that firmly believes its German monarch is “British” must be a bit confused, so really we should be more kind to them.
If she was like Lindsay Lohan she’d be irish
@ Martin Healy
‘A Prairie Home Companion’ is her best performance imo
I’ve heard plenty of Irish people claim British actors – Daniel day Lewis seems to be a frequent mix up
He has Irish citizenship too.
Daniel day Lewis IS NOT IRISH never was
I’ve never claimed him and why would I. But going on the British policy he must definitely be Irish as he has Irish citizenship and lived here for so long. That’s more than enough for them. An interesting fact about Day Lewis is his father, the once Nobel Laureate of Britain, was born in Laois and moved to England as a kid. Feck this, I’m adopting the British claimant system, how more Irish can Lewis get?
That halawa guy in egypt prison is (IRISH ) so there u go everyone can be IRISH ……
Why haven’t the British claimed him as one of their own??
Really? His father was born in Ireland. A Protestant of course, so he probably doesn’t qualify in your mind.
Samuel L. Jackson gave the right response to a British journalist who called Colin Farrell British before. I’ll see if I can find it.
I do believe it went something like this…
Thornton: What was it like working with Colin (Farrell), cause he is just so hot in the U.K. right now?
Jackson: He’s pretty hot in the U.S. too.
Thornton: Yeah, but he is one of our own.
Jackson: Isn’t he from Ireland?
Thornton: Yeah, but we can claim him cause Ireland is beside us.
Jackson: You see that’s your problem right there. You British keep claiming people that don’t belong to you. We had that problem here in America too, it was called slavery.
@ Eoin O’Súilleabháin
SLJ more like POS
She’s born in America and we claim her as Irish lol pot calling kettle black
She was born to Irish parents, and clearly speaks with a clearly strong audible Irish accent. need I say more?
Halawa kid was born in Dublin and people like you call him Egyptian. Make up your mind what classifies as Citizenship.
She hols dual citizenship.. so she is american and irish… still not british though!
Both are irish. Whether your getting famous elsewhere or protesting for democracy in egypt
I was born in Dublin does that make me a dub
Kirsha are both parents foreign nationals? “The Twenty-seventh Amendment of theConstitution of Ireland provided that children born on the island of Ireland to parents who were both foreign nationals would no longer have a constitutional right to citizenship of Ireland”
Gravy train both Saoirses patents are Irish, Halawas don’t even have a word of English, never mind being Irish themselves!
Democracy. . (MOSLIM BROTHER HOOD ) at the expense of all the persecute minorities in egypt including your far left friends. ..!!!
@ Conor Cahill
” She clearly speaks with a clearly strong audible Irish accent ”
born in america
raised in carlow
speaks with a dublin accent
I like the use of the word ‘English’!
O Hagan. Surely.
Saoirse Ronan, just your typical British name.
“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man”.A quote we should all live our lives by.
I wouldn’t believe anything that pirate Hans Sprungfeld ever said.
What a bell end ,just because the Irish might sweep the awards season
Surprised an English person could pronounce either her first or second name in any recognisable form
The teleprompter says SUR-SHA for them
Saoirse herself would have been very quick to correct him if she was being interviewed by him .
@ Suzie Sunshine
“Saoirse herself would have been very quick to correct him ”
did she correct Richard Gere ?
You can take the empire away for the British but it’s another thing entirely to take the empire state of mind away from them. Ownership of other people and nations appears to be in their psyche.
i also find it insulting sky news refers to ireland as ‘THE REPUBLIC’ on the weather forecast , can they not just say ireland
the best actors are british
Olivier
Oldman
Day Lewis
So she’s American then…..
How to troll an Irish person: “pick a famous artist or sports person and claim them as british”. Pages and pages of excited protests guaranteed. Best click bait ever.
ST PATRICK WAS BRITISH!!!
That’s sorted, now we can just wait for the outrage bus to disgorge its ferocious passengers…
Let suchet live in his own little world. He’s pathetic.
Yerra he’s a nice divil I met him in ventry a few years back. I think he’s just stirring the pot the wee rogue.
Why does the reporter feel the need to claim her, who cares where she comes from
English journalists can’t even pronounce Irish names properly. For example, Nicholas Owen, a former ITN colleague of Richard Suchet’s uncle, pronounced 1996 Eurovision winner Eimear Quinn’s first name “Eye-mar”.
BBC news called Conor McGregor British
so she is an american, after all
She spent a few weeks there as an infant.
By your logic that makes Joe Strummer Turkish.
She moved to Ireland when she was 3- not a few weeks. She has both US and Irish citizenship. I’d say she has probably spent a lot of her teen years going back and forth to The U.S. as she made a few movies during that time but I would still say she is an Irish actress as she spent most of her childhood there.
a compliment..wouldnt that put bubbles in your shite
In a British program about Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell’s movie SWAT presented by British presenter, Kate Thornton, the following exchange occured:
Thornton: What was it like working with Colin (Farrell), cos he is just so hot in the U.K. right now?
Jackson: He’s pretty hot in the U.S. too.
Thornton: Yeah, but he is one of our own.
Jackson: Isn’t he from Ireland?
Thornton: Yeah, but we can claim him cos Ireland is beside us.
Jackson: You see that’s your problem right there. You British keep claiming people that don’t belong to you. We had that problem here in America too, it was called slavery.
Why are people even debating this. She is able to choose for herself. She could see herself as Irish, American-Irish, or British. There’s a case to be made for any of them, but it’s a case for herself to decide, not some news idiot, or the cesspool of human rats that is Twitter.
There is no case to be made for her being British.
How exactly could she make a case for calling herself British??
He’s works for SKY news who are basically marketed for English Sun readers an audience who barely know where their own country is.
They’re trolling us i reckon. Don’t feed the troll.
@ Dan O’Connor
they love getting a rise out of us especially with the 1916 crap coming up
Imagine if all the British kack soccer players who England don’t want took the same attitude
I presume everybody who is outraged doesn’t watch the Irish soccer team
As it’s an apparent free for all, can we bags Prince George?
So she’s a yank
Some compliment ever see their football fans.
Can you blame him really? A) He works for Sky news so facts will be completely alien to him B) He came through the English educational system which, I’m told, propagates the myth that, for example, Cromwell was a stand up fellow and the Indians were rather glad to see the Brits arrive on their shores C) He’s a twit.
A consequence of geography? Sure then we are all European and could safely describe Shane as a German journalist?
What the hell is the British Isles? That term sounds like it belongs back in 1400′s.
Nope, it’s a perfectly healthy geographical term.
Nationalistic doublespeak belongs in another age, though.
Did anyone else keep tapping like an idiot on Shane Smith’s tweet trying to get the clip to play before realising it was a photo?
Lots of Americans boating into Eniscorthy to see the old town.Good for tourism.
Wait, she was born in America? Technically she is an American.
Yea but so was Boris Johnston. So was De Valera. Gets bit complicated
We really have got to get over the British thing. We are Irish and strong and we don’t care if you claim them. They know and that’s all that counts
The Irish race are not Brythonic, so the term British being used to describe Ireland and the Irish nation is a non sequitur. The Irish, Scots and Manx are Gaelic, and the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons are the remnants of the ancient Britons. It’s the English that claim everyone of these islands as British, and what they mean is Anglicized. It’s little wonder that they continue this affectation as it seems in their mindset that England and the English would cease to wield effectively on their own, and the reason it continues is we allow this nonsense to continue by Ireland imitating all that is perceived as “British” by the English, and calling it Irish within Ireland . A good example of this is the Irish humor which at it’s roots is that of the thick Irish, and endemic in the Irish psyche from years of Anglo-Saxon influence. The best way to deal with this is to ignore it, and not get into the erroneous and fallacious attitude of the English that claims these islands as some special entity apart from the rest of Europe. The Irish will only be truly free when they see the true falsehood of continued reference to the larger island to its east.
*Yawn* I’m guessing it was a slow day over at the CARN magazine?
Top marks for regurgitating the ‘it woz the Engerlish wot invented it’ trope, though.
Dig up, stupid.
Typical arrogance of some
Looks like 90% of you are a bit thick and do not realise you’ve just been manipulated by sky news….it’s small country syndrome, we care what Britain thinks and they barely know we exist
Why are the Irish claiming her if she is American? Ireland, the land of contradiction and double standards
Gas how selective the ‘brits’ are in claiming us Irish as their own. Would they claim the 1916 Irish heros?????
“We English recognize that the Irish are neither drunks nor stupid…
The Irish are just ignorant”
James Watson.
The English discoverer (so-called) of the structure of DNA.
P.S.
Crick and Watson got the credit for the work of other people.
They merely filled in a jigsaw puzzle when they cracked the structure of the double helix..
Rosalind Franklin did the REAL work.
She is forgotten.
Rosalind Franklin was also English. Not sure what your point is.
Who gives a crap.
If he’d just left it be after the “one of ours” comment, it would’ve been fine. He could’ve said he meant it in a UK and Ireland against the world idea that we all do in competitions against the rest of the world. But no, he had to go the idiotic route and make it all worse. Someone is gonna be in trouble at work.
Ronan’s dad is UK born and lived there as a child. So there.
So are you confirming that Daniel Day Lewis IS Irish by that same logic? He even holds an Irish passport and lives here on top of his ould lad being born in Laois.
Good for DDL! Ronan doesn’t live in Ireland anymore, so perhaps people should get on with their lives! I can imagine she’s mortified by everyone’s behavior towards Suchet ! Lack of sefl-confidence as a nation is what it is! Same with Fassbender. He describes himself as a ”citizen of Europe”, not Irish. No-one has the right to decide what nationality a person is when they weren’t born in this country.
her father is a Brit
she was born in the USA
so she is one third irish??????
Many of us here in Blighty don’t really care if DDL calls himself Irish. Or if Ireland claims him as one of their own. His personal life is his own matter.
Saoirse Ronan wasn’t born in the UK, isn’t a UK citizen and to the best of my knowledge she hasn’t tried claiming it, so Sky’s newsreader is clearly being a plank in this regard.
As are some of those posting some of the more petty Anglo-baiting comments on this story.
English decentants of vikings and Romans I’d wish they go back to Denmark.. And stop taking up some much space on our islands..
You do realise that the Anglo-Saxon ethnic displacement theory has largely been proven false by modern genetic studies, don’t you?
Why do people get so wound up over these “stories” who cares what whoever thinks about someones Nationality.Get over it,bigger problems in the world
800+ years of “uhm…. No!?”
Let’s all get over it. Daniel Day Lewis and Peter O’Toole are both Brits, but who cares?
Daniel Day Lewis was born in London
Peter O’Toole was born in Limerick
both tools anyway.
Peter O’Toole was born in Leeds. You’re thinking of his boozing buddy Richard Harris
I think it’s up to the actor involved. I’d like to see actors say (if they win or in interviews, whatever) “it’s great to be an Irish actor in this competitive aena…..” something like that.
In fairness her accent is so bad in the movie that she could have been a Brit playing an irishperson!
Born in the USA therefore American – there can be no debate.
The Yanks can also claim her as their own.
How many English players have we poached for the national football squad?
Lovely to see New Yorkers doing well.
It happens all the time best to rise above it we know better if their so desperate for the limelight go for it just confirms their stupidly !!
Hate when you eejits say rise above it. If you rise above it, it will never stop
@ John Collins
that jamaica bobsled movie had a song
Rise Above it
90% of Canadians are mistaken for Americans ( the other 10% are French speaking) 100% of Austrians and 70% of Swiss are mistaken for Germans ,( the other 30% speak French of Italian) and if you keep your mouth shut nobody would the difference anyway and I’m sure nobody cares anyway,I don’t for one. LP
At the same time, I’ve yet to hear of Canadians calling for North America to be renamed ‘the Northern Atlantic-Pacific continent’ just because their powerful southern neighbours call themselves ‘Americans’ and live in ‘the United States of America’. I can’t say I’ve heard of Mexicans arguing for this petty nonsense either.
The old lie. Successful Irish people such as
Rory McIlroy are suddenly British. Liam Neeson must be another brit…and Colin Farrel..JFK and on it goes. Shows a complete lack of journalistic ethics. Did you see how Sky covered the London Olympics. Totally biased.as if there was only one country participating, and that one Team GB of course.
Rory McIlroy was born in Northern Ireland, has described himself as both Irish and British (the two are not mutually exclusive, believe it not) and holds a British passport. Whoops.
Did ya ever hear suchet in all your life?
Best thing the Brits ever gave Ireland was their language and not we try to teach them how to use it and they are stupid students
This is news? Christ!
Why anyone would care about this is beyond me. Stop living in the 20th century and get on with your life.
So disappointed at the discontent over this. I see the term ‘British’ as representing those people from the small countries of England, The Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why is it one cannot identify themselves as both Irish and British if they choose to? Stop building a divide and build a bridge!!! I wish someone would create a term that would make all people within the British Isles (Ireland, The Isle of Man and Great Britain) feel a common pride as well as one of their individual heritage (Irish, Manx, Welsh, Scottish, and English). It is 2016, building bridges is smarter than emphasising the differences and furthering the divide.
Yeah well, never underestimate the ability of nationalists in ANY country to go searching for insults both real and imagined. Here in Britain we have a cult of morons going about insisting that we are not Europeans. Nationalists by their very nature define themselves not by what they are, but by what they are not.
She gives me a pain in my hole
Well, why are you on here then? Get on with your day…
Well, I suppose you can’t help where our brain is situated
Ah good old Sky news! The only news channel worse than Fox news!!! Utter shite!
The same ones who controls and edits what peoples comments are on their news site in order to control what other people think and believe… But don’t say anything that is truthful or against their governments policies???
Saoirse Ronan is British like Richie Kavanagh or Pat Short.
@ johnr
Saoirse doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as those inbreds
In other news WAR !
The mincing “showbiz” reporter on Good Morning Britain (he’s Scottish) every single day last week made a point of saying Saoirse was Irish but born in USA and Fassbender was Irish but born in Germany. Every single morning.
She’s mistaken, it’s not a complement. Wrong twice. Bid the hoky man
Who cares
Souper comment Gary
“But many brits will still see her as one of their own. It’s a consequence of geography” says he.
It’s a consequence of poor education.
Get f**ked
Did I hear that the queen of England is of German extract?
omg omg omg…..im scarlett thats so so mad…..omg omg omg……..and there is a lot of other people too in the north part of ireland and they call them british aswell……
Honestly do yas know anything about her at all? She was born in America and has an American passport, so technically she a yank!
If Saoirse was from Timbuktu, but had an Irish grandmother, the Irish media would be calling her Irish and asking, “when are you coming ‘home’”?
So she is American
The old lie. Successful Irish people such as
Rory McIlroy are suddenly British. Liam Neeson must be another brit…and Colin Farrel..JFK and on it goes. Shows a complete lack of journalistic ethics. Did you see how Sky covered the London Olympics. Totally biased.as if there was only one country participating, and that one Team GB of course.
Yes, willing her on shouting ‘comoooon Saorseee!’ What Morrisey would do for a comment like that!
And rats are from asia so are non of us on Twitter even irish at all? Bah…
There is no mention of the British isles in the thousands of years that the Irish language has existed. In Irish the term An Bhreatain, was never used in reference to Ireland, but in reference to Britain (An Bhreatain Mhór) and Wales (An Bhreatain bheag).
The original inhabitants of Britain used the term “Prydain” for Britain, and this has been in continuous use in Welsh – but it refers to present day Wales, England & Scotland.
Ireland on the other hand has always been known as Iwerddon in Welsh. There is no word for both Ireland and Britain, either in Irish or Welsh.
To state that it is a geographical term would be false as the channel islands off Normandy France are included when their link to Britain is purely political, and not geographical.
The French governed island of Chausey which is beside Guernsey and Jersey is not included, which highlights again that this term is intrinsically political and not geographical.
This term is never used by an Irish person, but is understood to mean Britain and the Isle of Man.
The Irish embassy in London never uses this term and have been instructed by the Irish government not to use it.
During negotiations of the Good Friday Agreement the Irish government had this clarified.
I see him as American, then…
Who gives a shit?
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