George Clooney in Ireland?

it's me wrote:the Mr with the yellow tie?
well

eyebrows maybe
but nothing more....

From Herald

'My pals don't believe me... but I AM George Clooney's cousin'

By Caroline Crawford

Thursday February 02 2012

AN Irish cousin of Hollywood legend George Clooney has revealed how friends wouldn't believe her when she told of the connection.

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Fiona Clooney (26) first became aware of her famous relative when a cousin completed a family tree linking them to the Oscar-nominated actor's Kentucky clan.

"It took a while to sink in. None of my friends would believe me, it got to the stage where I just stopped telling people," she said.

Since then she has holidayed in the US home of George's father Nicholas and taken him on tours of his ancestral home here in Ireland. But she has yet to meet her famous cousin.

"I'm still working on that," she laughed.

The two families have stayed in constant contact, with George's father Nicholas paying a visit to Fiona's Abbeyleix, Co Laois, home five years ago.

"He came over about five years ago and saw the cottage next door to me and we went to Kilkenny to the old family home and out for dinner. I have to say, he's such a lovely man. He's a real genuine person and he's so grounded and down to earth," she recalled.

Two years ago, Fiona and boyfriend David Greene enjoyed a holiday with the Clooney family in the US. "Myself and my boyfriend where on holidays in New York a couple of years back and because we'd often be in contact with Nick he invited us down to where he was in Kentucky. We stayed there three days and had a fantastic time.

"He treated us like the VIPs out there because we were the Irish relatives," she revealed.

Fiona stars in a new documentary George Clooney's Irish Roots -- The Real Descendants by Kilkenny documentary maker Gabriel Murray. It tells the story of the star's links to Abbeyleix in Co Laois.

But far from being stunned at the famous link, Fiona took the whole thing in her stride.

"Strangely it fell into place. We always knew that my great-grandparents and grandparents had been in touch with their American relatives, they would send letters and packages but they lost touch over the years.

"I think most people didn't believe me, they thought I was messing about it so in the end I just went with the joke," she revealed.

Fiona is a member of Abbeyleix Heritage Town Tourism. She now hopes that if her famous cousin makes the planned trip to Ireland that it will help promote the area.

"It's such a beautiful town but we just don't get many tourists. Maybe if George comes to the town it will spark an interest," she added.

The feature documentary will be completed in April.

GEORGE CLOONEY is roaring off on a motorbike tour to console himself after missing out on the Best Actor gong at last night's Baftas.

he star — nominated for role in The Descendants — is going to ride around Ireland after taking advice from petrolhead pal BONO.

Although George, who lost out to The Artist's Jean Dujardin admitted the wild weather there terrifies him, his biggest worry is that he will have Gaelic ladies hurling themselves at him.

George said: "I ran into Bono in Toronto who was there for a documentary about U2. Turns out he's as nuts about bikes as me and told me Ireland is a great place to ride around.

"He's already given me a list of cool places to check out so I'm really looking forward just riding around the country on my bike."

George and the U2 frontman rode around Lake Como in Italy together last year.

George added: "It will be very hard to keep your balance on one of those bikes when you've got Irish housewives throwing themselves in front of the wheels."

He'll be all right for personal security with girlfriend Stacy Keibler as a pillion passenger — she's a former pro wrestler.

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Friday 23 March 2012

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Limerick’s Corrigan brothers write song for McIIroy and Clooney
The Corrigan Brothers

By Anne Sheridan

Published on Friday 23 March 2012 08:00

THE CORRIGAN brothers are back, and this time they are singing the successes of golfer Rory McIlroy and praising George Clooney’s Irish heritage after moving on from US President Barack Obama.

The brothers, who hail from Castletroy in Limerick, appear on have another American hit on their hands, after previously reaching the American top 40 with “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama”. That song enjoyed over nine million YouTube hits, while the trio were also mentioned in President Obama’s address in Dublin last year.

“Last week we were asked by an American friend to record a song for a golf news site in honour of Rory’s achievement. We wrote and recorded the song and 24 hours later it had appeared all over the sports media and mainstream US media. We were amazed,” Ger Corrigan, lead singer with the band, told the Limerick Leader.

The newspaper USA Today have featured the song, as well as NBC news, CBS news, the Fox sports website Yardbarker, ESPN as well as hundreds of other social media sites, blogs and online newspapers. “We obviously underestimated the popularity of Rory McIlroy in the USA,” laughed Ger.

The brothers rushed to release the song as a single in the USA and they think it may eclipse the Obama hit. It now has over 20,000 views on YouTube. “The single is getting airplay across the sports radio networks as well as mainstream networks and it has featured on CBS and NBC national news as well as news and sports networks in Canada,” continued Ger. The Corrigan brothers will also film a performance of the single for CBS TV in Ireland later this month, and said they are currently completing the music for a film on George Clooney’s Irish roots which will be on cinema release in the USA later this year, as well as planning a tour of the West Coast of the US in September.

Recently they performed “Welcome Home George Clooney” in Kilkenny where they met relatives of The Descendants star, in anticipation of the film star’s visit here this March.