Rory McIlroy declares for Ireland at Olympics 2016

Rory McIlroy to play for Ireland at 2016 Olympics

Rory McIlroy will don Ireland's colours at the Rio Olympics in 2016

Rory McIlroy has revealed that he will represent Ireland at Rio 2016 when golf returns to the Olympics after a 112-year absence.

Earlier this year, McIlroy indicated that he was still undecided as to whether he would commit to Britain or Ireland in Brazil, with the 25-year-old even suggesting he could miss the Games due to the potential controversy surrounding his choice.

"I've been thinking about it a lot," McIlroy told an Irish Open pre-tournament press conference at Fota Island.

"I don't know whether it's been because the World Cup has been in Brazil and I've been thinking a couple of years down the line.

"Thinking about all the times that I played as an amateur for Ireland and as a boy and everything, I think for me it's the right decision to play for Ireland in 2016."

McIlroy had previously spoken of being in an "extremely sensitive and difficult position" over the decision, releasing an open letter on his Twitter account in September 2012 in response to quotes attributed to him which said he felt "more British than Irish".

Asked if he had been "torn" on the issue, the former world number one added on Wednesday: "More worried about what other people would think, rather than me. But you've got to do what's right for yourself and what you feel most comfortable with, and ultimately that was the decision that I made.

"I was always very proud to put on the Irish uniform and play as an amateur and as a boy, and I would be very proud to do it again. Just because now that I'm playing golf for money and I'm a professional, I'm supposed to have this choice or this decision to make, where if you look at the rugby players, you look at cricketers or hockey players, they view Ireland as one, the same as we do in golf.

"I don't think there's any point to change that or go against that just because it's a different event or it's the Olympics.

"I've had a lot of time on my own the last few weeks and just been thinking about it a lot. It's something that's been quite important to me and something that I needed to make some sort of decision or some sort of stand on it.

"Just weighing up everything, and thinking back about the times that I played for Ireland and won the European Team championship with Ireland, won a lot of great amateur titles representing Ireland, I just thought why change that? Basically it's just a continuation of what I've always done."

That will put the cat among the pigeons among that strange extremist british nationalist group that mainly exists in the 2 north East Counties of what was Northern Ireland and West Coast Scotland.

The Northern Ireland statelet is certainly no longer what it was set up to be, enshrining a selectively ignorant and extremely twisted and plastic form of British nationalism, one that viewed anyone who was not a so called Protestant (a meaningless term except for extremist and ignorant bigots) as a fenian or Taig, basically anyone who considered themselves Irish.

Founded by extremists terrorists in 1914, extremist bigots who defied democracy and the British rule of law. A group of terrorists that should have been beaten not fed by Westminster.
Unfortunately as well all know from history, cowards in the British Government backed down to these (so called British and loyalist) terrorists, and were led by self interested low lives like Churchill, who's family robbed and held more than a hundred thousand acres in the North of the ancient Irish Province of Ulster.
A vested interest in promoting ignorant divisions.

Rory knows it is not and never will be a real country, the Irish of the majority of Ulster are Irish, and most do not and never have considered themselves as British.
The irony is, anywhere else today but those 2 north East Counties of what was Northern Ireland and the West Coast Scotland, the vast majority of sane and decent British people have no concerns about any form of Christianity or with Irish people.

Rory McIlroy declaring for Ireland at Olympics 2016, should be a natural choice for a lad who is Irish. Of course like many others from the statelet, Rory also has a British passport and in context there was a while (decades) when the British Government allowed discrimination and the Irish could not easily obtain their own Irish passport, those days are gone.
Of course coming from the statelet, Rory McIlroy might consider himself a little differently to someone from Kerry!
But then so would a Kerry man from someone from Donegal or Cavan or Monaghan in the Irish province of Ulster, as they would someone from Dublin and vice versa.

A Plain fact of the real world is this, all would be automatically considered as Irish by the rest of the world, the only exception is when the individual
had to explain they were not Irish!

Good luck to Rory McIlroy and Ireland at Olympics 2016.

The day is coming when ignorance is side lined by information, where false claims of ancestry and religion (many if not most so called prods, do not actually have any practising faith of any form what so ever)are made look what they are pathetic.

The minority who want to consider themselves as British in Ireland can do so, who cares, in the same way a number many times more than them in the Island Britain consider themselves as Irish.

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