‘We hope he gets home for the annual graveyard mass’ – the proud son of Irish-speaking parents who is now at the heart of UK government

Now the community is hopeful that the man who holds the most senior ministry after Labour leader Keir Starmer, will return for the parish’s annual graveyard mass – as he has done every year.

“We are over the moon,” said Mr McFadden’s cousin, Eileen McFadden, who works in An Fál Carrach’s Shamrock Bar.

“I’ve known him since he was a really teeny baby, as he spent six weeks of every summer over here,” she said.

“We’re hoping he’ll be back here next month for the mass on August 4.”

Her celebrated cousin not only directed Labour ’s general election campaign, but was previously a political director to former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and worked with his successor, Gordon Brown.

First elected as MP for Wolverhampton South East in May 2005, Mr McFadden (59) was handed the most senior ministerial post in the UK cabinet office after the prime minister.

His late parents, Annie and Jimmy McFadden, were native Irish speakers. The couple left Dunmore, near An Fál…

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