Cork fishmonger will keep Irishness undercover with the Queen

The country’s best-known fishmonger is going undercover with a unique splash of Irishness for his tea date with the Queen later this month.

Cork’s Pat O’Connell will be wearing green boxer shorts emblazoned with a shamrock logo when he visits Buckingham Palace on March 25.

He will wear the jocks under a classic, tailored Irish suit thanks to one of the country’s oldest menswear firms, the 1860-established Fitzgerald Menswear on Cork’s St Patrick’s St, which came on board yesterday to give him a Buckingham Palace makeover.