‘Katie is Irish but feel free to claim Ronan, Louis or Jedward’

As if 48 medals wasn’t enough, it seems a British newspaper is determined to take one of ours as their own.

Years after we had to endure things like ‘Britain’s Seán Kelly’ and ‘Sonia O’Sullivan who trains in London’, we now have The Daily Telegraph with: ‘Can anyone defeat Britain’s Katie Taylor?’

The question posed by journalist Gareth A Davies provoked a bit of a backlash on Twitter yesterday, but most people took the error in their stride.