The connections between the Irish Celt and the Highland Celt go back way beyond living memory

The connections between the Irish Celt and the Highland Celt go back way beyond living memory

Jamie Stone is the Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and the chair of the House of Commons Petitions Committee. Dear Old Ireland… When I was growing up on the shores of the Dornoch Firth in the Scottish Highlands, I had hardly even heard of the place – although I might have heard of a leprechaun. At uni, I met a nice girl who told me that she came from the Emerald Isle. I remember trying to charm her and, in my ignora…