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Yet Another Irish Sportsman Has Been Wrongly Identified As British In The US

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Google's stubborn insistence that Shane Lowry is an Australian is not the only outrage perpetrated against this nation in this year of centenaries.

The Americans, once our allies in our long battle for independence, are now enabling the reconquest of the country by a genteel process of misidentifying Irish sportsman as English.

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For, judging the level of traction such stories receive, there is nothing on this planet that annoys the Irish nation more than Irish sportspeople being called British. Not even foreigners critiques of hurling.

Distressing news comes to us from journalist Maurice Brosnan who is out in Kansas City, watching Sporting KC take on Colorado Rapids, the most Irish team in all of America.

The match programme producers sadly allowed themselves to be swayed by the Carlow man's West Midlands accent.

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