Have you heard about the sumo wrestler from Roscommon?

The Irish have had an ability to make a mark all over the world, not just in the big emigration destinations of Britain, USA, Canada and Australia.

There’s something in our DNA that sparks into life when we spread our wings.

How else do you explain about the city of Fukui, in the north-central coast of Japan, directly across from North Korea? At the last count it had a population of 265,408. Three of them are Irish and yet earlier this year they had a St Patrick’s Day parade and over 500 attended.