Cork's most famous fishmonger invited to visit Queen

Cork’s famous fishmonger Pat O’Connell has been invited to Buckingham Palace.

The trader in the English Market in Cork City has been asked to attend a reception with the Queen at the end of the month. The invite comes less than three years after a visit to Ireland during which the Queen and Prince Philip dropped into the market and met Mr O’Connell.

After the visit, British ambassador Julian King asked Mr O’Connell to sign a picture which captured him sharing a joke with the Queen. He had picked up a particularly ugly monkfish and told her that it is nicknamed “the mother-in-law fish”, to which she threw her head back and laughed.