The Gathering officials to weed out fake events during the tourism initiative

The "spokesman" is talking rubbish. There are loads of ads on Irish radio stations (funded by the Gathering Ireland) telling people that "any event with 2 or more people is a gathering" so it's not surprising that people are advertising birthdays, communions and weddings. Since the definition is so broad I'm not sure how they define a scammer. I'm going for root canal work in January. That qualifies as a gathering so you're all invited.

Don't bother trying to weed out the Gathering fakes. The whole damn thing is a fake.

I have already asked this question in a previous comment and now I ask it again: Since I was born in England and became a U.S citizen over 40 years ago, but have always regarded the whole Irish nation -never the Southern Irish state - as my homeland, would the tourists officials of that state consider me a welcome visitor to the part of Ireland formerly known as the Free State?