Have you got any Irish in you?

[lopez]

As I said Clinton may not be the most convincing Irishman,but he's eligible & wants to play,so he/we should give it a lash.Regardless of what's been said in the past,unless you speak to him in person,how can any of us judge?

I can't see 'Homey' Clinton hanging out with the master race. Perhaps playing for England was just as much a sell out? Don't know about the rest of his background but it could be that his three other grandparents were from different countries, so his roots are pretty disparate. As an old 2G Jamaican mate of mine said about some of his elders: 'I can't say that I'm from the old country if they are from Barbados and my parents are from Jamaica. The only thing we have in common is that we're originally from Africa.'

Incidently is the English rughy captain not half Irish?

I've read about his mother being a strong 2G sister. However this information came not from anything on Dallaglio himself but through her campaigning for justice following the tragic death of her daughter - a highly talented dancer by all accounts - in the Marchioness disaster on the Thames 15 years ago. This story does come as a bit of a surprise. I also heard that the Italians wanted to arrest Dallaglio a few years ago because he had dual-nationality and hadn't done his national service, naughty boy.