Boyle describes Mayo as her spiritual singing home

IF it was good enough for Ray Houghton during the Jack Charlton soccer years, then it’s good enough for Susan Boyle.

Yesterday Irish fans of the unlikely Britain’s Got Talent sensation were given another reason to show their support after it emerged that the Scottish singer has family roots in Ireland.

Fresh from binning her bushy eyebrows and tangled hair, the Scottish celebrity has also undergone a green repackaging, confirming that her mother’s family are originally from the north-west of Ireland and it was when she was in Mayo that people heard her soaring voice for the first time.