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Joe Biden tweets about ‘Father Ted’, Irish people can’t RESIST having the craic with it

Careful now.

LAST NIGHT, US Vice President Joe Biden tweeted a tribute to the late Father Theodore Hesburgh, a civil rights activist and former President of Notre Dame University who died earlier this week.

As you can see, Father Hesburgh was known to many as simply ‘Father Ted’.

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You can probably guess what came next…

Someone even alerted Graham Linehan himself to the high, high praise:

Oh, you bunch of messers.

- Valerie Loftus 

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