What happens when the people of your birth country think you???re a foreigner?

Patrick Cox: Hands up who has a parent from another country. OK, maybe not hands up if you’re driving.

This is what a lot of us have in common: We feel fake when we root for our parent’s country.

If my Irish dad and I watched any kind of sporting contest involving an Irish man or woman, that was who we rooted for. Even Irish horses.

But, why feel fake? I’m Irish. I have citizenship through my Dad. I have a shedload of Irish relatives.

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