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Old 02-19-2010, 12:06 PM   #2293 (permalink)
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the only oirish connection i no of at man utd is George best, and he was an ulster protestant...
Jackie Carey
Dennis Byrne
Harry Gregg
Tony Dunne
Sammy McElroy
Kevin Moran
Paul McGrath
Norman Whiteside
Roy Keane
Denis Irwin
Frank Stapleton
John O Shea

And Ulster Protestants have every claim to Irishness if they see fit.Many key Irish nationalists were Protestant, such as Wolfe Tone, Isaac Butt, CS Parnell, WB Yeats and Douglas Hyde.
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