Colm O'Regan: Saturday Night Live UK and how to do a not terrible Irish accent

We are often mistaken for being offended by terrible Irish accents, but personally speaking, it’s not that I’m fragile or hurt by them. I’m just annoyed to see something we do well being done badly

Colm O'Regan: 'For the record, in the sketch called "What Kind of Irish is your Grandad", George Fouracres does four accents: Dublin, Northern (it’s an Orangeman and sounds a bit too Fenian, but we’ll leave him off), an oul lad threatening to fight you — with a pitch-perfect “bastherds”, and then he sings Óro se do bheath abhaile'

Whatever about the rest of Saturday Night Live UK, I’m now a fan of George Fouracres. For a start, because of his surname. You won’t forget it. Even the fact he’s called FourAcres makes me feel like he understands road frontage.

But the clincher is: he’s an English comedy actor who can do a fairly good Irish accent. In fact, he can do four of them and they’re not bad at all.