Some parents are paying private psychologists so their children can be exempt from learning Irish in school, it has been revealed.

“It’s more about the 111th guy, who loses his card. What do I do? Send him a bit of a Christmas present?”

Pádraig Harrington is reluctant to draw on a one-time only PGA Tour money list exemption should he not finish first or second in this week’s Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.