Watch your own house

FOOTBALL supporters of Ireland, their country needs you.

We are well acquainted with English clubs hoovering up the best of Irish football talent; now it seems they’re scouting fans and even home buyers.

In Sunderland recently, Niall Quinn couldn’t have made a more direct appeal for Irish bums on seats at the Stadium of Light if he’d renamed himself Lord Drumaville, grown a waxy moustache and printed up posters of himself pointing a beckoning finger in the general direction of his homeland.