Dublin ‘pepped’ by US influx

You’d be forgiven for thinking you were in Dublin, Ohio; Dublin, Georgia; or Dublin, California — as long as you ignored the weather.

An American influx is everywhere in the capital ahead of today’s College American Football game between Navy and Notre Dame, turning Dublin into the 51st state, at least for the weekend.

As many as 40,000 Americans are understood to have travelled to Ireland for the game and last night a peculiar sight to Irish eyes saw ‘pep rallies’, or mini-festivals of organised positivity.