Cruise receives Irish heritage cert

Actor Tom Cruise has met with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore for the presentation of a certificate of Irishness.

Cruise receives Irish heritage cert

(Cruise outside Iveagh House. Picture: Julian Behal/PA Wire)

Actor Tom Cruise has received a certificate to mark his Irish roots after researchers discovered one of his ancestors restored evicted tenants to lands just before the famine.

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