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I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

Some people say to me, 'You don't sound very Irish.' It's because I have this tendency to iron out my accent: not because I'm ashamed of it but because it makes my life easier if I don't keep having to repeat myself.

I'm proud to be Irish.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

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

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.