Just watched the news there, and they were doing bits on all the Mickey Mouse Saint Patrick’s Day parades around the country. The parade in Durrow, County Laois has cruised into first place in the tasteless Paddy league table. In amongst the wild horses and bewildered old people in wheelchairs being pushed down the street against their will, they had some very strange floats indeed.

The most surreal thing for me was seeing the float containing your man portraying Tiger Woods. He was blacked-up, and dragging a ball and chain behind him. At first I thought they might be making some philosophical point about slavery, but no, it’s just a painfully lame joke about Tiger’s relationship with his wife.

Stay classy, Ireland.

[EDIT - There was a second Tiger Woods character in this parade, but I can't quite tell from the fleeting glimpse whether this was an actual black person, or another man in makeup. Post edited to clarify this.]