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Topic: Padraig Harrington calls on
Olympic Committee to
intervene on Rory McIlroy’s
nationality question |
Padraig Harrington calls on
Olympic Committee to
intervene on Rory McIlroy’s
nationality question
Irish Central[New York], by Kerry O´Shea
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 1/10/2013 12:05:40 PM
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| The brewing controversy as to which nation, if any, pro golfer Rory McIlroy will represent at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro continues to grow. Now Irish golfer Padraig Harrington has expressed his sympathy for McIlroy’s tough decision. "No sportsman should have to make that decision and no one at 23 years of age should have to make that decision,” said Padraig Harrington to The Irish Examiner regarding what choice McIlroy will have to make. As a citizen of Northern Ireland, McIlroy is torn between representing either Great Britain or Ireland in the forthcoming Olympic games.
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Comments:
What´s the issue?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
shamrock, 1/10/2013 12:10:36 PM (No. 9109064)
He lives in Northern Ireland, so play for Ireland. Unless he´s Orange and a great fan of the brits, what´s the problem?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
galloglass, 1/10/2013 12:16:24 PM (No. 9109079)
Rory´s Catholic, but apolitical. He´ll probably wind up playing for the UK.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
AltaD, 1/10/2013 12:19:33 PM (No. 9109089)
He´s a legal resident of Northern Ireland so he plays for team GB. If he wants to play for Ireland, move to Ireland. There, problem solved.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
miceal, 1/10/2013 12:23:40 PM (No. 9109096)
What #3 said....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 1/10/2013 1:13:15 PM (No. 9109186)
Reminds me of Zola Baird. Poor little kid - - thrown into the apartheid controversy when she hardly knew what it was.
She had to move to England in order to run (barefoot) in the Olympics. Then she crashed into Little Mary Decker - - and things got even worse!
I wonder where Zola is nowadays.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/10/2013 1:13:26 PM (No. 9109187)
There must be a lot more to this other than citizenship and residence. Otherwise he´d represent Northern Ireland.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/10/2013 1:20:58 PM (No. 9109209)
First, I´d like to see him call out the Brit´s on them maintaining the last open slave colony on the planet.
What else do you call the Protestant subjugation of the Irish?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 1/10/2013 1:25:30 PM (No. 9109218)
The Protestants in Ulster ARE Irish.
I don´t think having a different religion changes your nationality.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ramona, 1/10/2013 1:27:08 PM (No. 9109220)
Maureen O´Hara went through a similar controversy. When she was to sign her U.S. citizenship papers, she discovered that she was listed as a British citizen. She had always considered herself a citizen of Ireland (which she was), and refused to sign the papers until a change was made.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/10/2013 2:08:06 PM (No. 9109283)
Why is golf an olympic sport? You can drink, smoke, eat, while participating, wearing long pants.
Olympic sport? I think not.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
tennman, 1/10/2013 2:43:18 PM (No. 9109367)
Intervene how? To be in the Olympics, you´ve got to be on a national team - no individuals. Got to make the call Rory.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/10/2013 2:47:51 PM (No. 9109378)
#8, I was there. Very simply put, if you were behind a broom = Catholic.
Behind a desk = Protestant.
Sorry, but the utter contempt that the NIreland BRITS(and to a person, not ONE of them considered themselves Irish) treat the Irish is beneath any civilized people.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BuckeyeRon, 1/10/2013 3:29:57 PM (No. 9109445)
The guy’s’ put the estate he never vists in Moneyreagh, Northern Ireland on the market for $3mil, bought one for $11mil in Palm Beach next door Jacks golf course and down the road from Tiger’s home...joined Tiger at Nike with a $250million deal...got a tall blond whose first language isn’t English like you know who...just announced his new charity but it is registered with the regulator for charities in England and Wales.
Might as well make it offical and apply for citizenship and play for the US!
By the way, thought The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consisted of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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