Go mbeidh an fórsa leat: Star Wars cast bid farewell to Cork with newspaper thank you to locals

“Go mbeidh an fórsa leat.”

Yep, it’s up there with Barack Obama’s “Is féidir linn” and Queen Elizabeth’s “A Úachtárain agus a chairde”.

Despite our own love-hate relationship with Irish, why is that we Irish can’t help feeling a stupid burst of pride when foreign VIPs flatter us in our native tongue?