TWEETS: UK Journalist Claims Ireland Isn’t Real ― Ireland Responds Hilariously

James Fenton

In a piece for The Times over in the UK today, journalist Melanie Phillips invited the wrath of the Irish by claiming that our country has ‘tenuous claims to nationhood’.

Melanie Phillips herself has a tenuous claim to existence, having been born only in 1951. @MelanieLatest @thetimes pic.twitter.com/4aHNayKPRJ

— Who dusky (@momahony_) March 7, 2017

Of course, Irish people responded to the claims the only way we know how. By taking the absolute piss…

Saw Melanie Phillips trending. Have just looked. Hilarity ensues. I attach the reason so you can pick holes to your hearts’ content. pic.twitter.com/g52HuFNfrz

— Amanda Kendal (@AmandaKendal) March 7, 2017

Ireland declares independence from the mind of Melanie Phillips. https://t.co/SrhY3e1L0V

— Brendan Coyle (@brendancoyle99) March 7, 2017

@MayorofLondon can u arrange for moronic self-publicist @MelanieLatest to be put in stocks & pelted with wet sponges on St Pats parade?Ta ????????

— Chris Tuite (@ChewyTuite83) March 7, 2017

#MelaniePhillips is real?? Wow I thought she was an Artificial Construct of the Paranoid Left to Warn us of the Horror of the Ignorant Right https://t.co/E2tgt61Vhs

— Philip Lowe #GTTO (@PhilipBagLowe) March 7, 2017

#Ireland re @MelanieLatest I commend my late gran’s advice: “Don’t mind that one. She’s only looking for notice.” #ahsureGodhelpus

— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) March 7, 2017

Call me crazy but weren’t the Irish in Ireland way before the Anglo-Saxons hit Britain? What is Melanie Phillips smoking?

— Lizzy Snow (@snowyofalbion) March 7, 2017

Melanie Phillips has a tenuous claim to personhood.

— ¬InvitedInterlocutor (@UnInterlocutor) March 7, 2017

years is a drop in the bucket. But then I shouldn’t be surprised given @MelanieLatest referred to climate change as ‘a scam’.

— ObstreperousLee (@LiadanOConnor) March 7, 2017

Melanie Phillips is from the tedious say something controversial school of journalism.

— Steve Horscroft (@shorscroft68) March 7, 2017

For those interested, the journalist in question has been responding to arguments since the publication of the article and some of her replies can be viewed here.

Safe to say her comments haven’t gone down too well here at all!