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I'm proud to be Irish.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.