Irish president Enda Kelly gives Rajoy a named football shirt for the 'Galicia national team'
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 @ 10:29 AM
IRISH prime minister Enda Kenny met with his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy on Thursday and gave him a 'personalised' football shirt.
The T-shirt is designed as though it were for the 'national' team of Galicia, the far north-western region directly above Portugal, and 'Rajoy' is printed on it as though it was the player's name.
Galicia and Ireland share cultural connections through their Gaelic roots, and the former is Rajoy's home region.
He was born in the famous cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña province) – on March 27, 1955 – and studied law at the university there, and moved at age 15 to the city of Pontevedra, where he was councillor and then MP for the provincial government.
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