Australian sports journalist who said that it is "a joke" that our counrty hasn’t teamed up with Great Britain for the Olympic Games.

Australian sports journalist who said that it is "a joke" that our counrty hasn’t teamed up with Great Britain for the Olympic Games.

According to The Irish Independent Barwick said: "It's a whole Irish joke, the whole thing. It just makes no sense.
"We, the rest of the world, can't understand. It's like a Hawaiian surfer not claiming that he surfs for the USA.
"It's not like Tasmanians say they don't want to represent Australia. You're all part of the one mix master."
He said: "I understand the history of Irish politics. Well. . . I don't understand the history of Irish politics."

His comments came after the Daily Telegraph was forced to apologise yesterday for calling Katie Taylor British. After a storm on Twitter the newspaper tweeted: “We’re sorry for mistakenly describing the fantastic boxer Katie Taylor as British in our London 2012 section today. She is Irish, of course.”

The Irish Ambassador to Australia, Noel White, quickly fired off a letter of complaint to Fairfax Media which resulted in the article being amended and the headline changed. The journalist responsible apologised for writing it.