Saturday Night Live turns its attention to Ireland’s national airline this weekend and let’s us say Irish eyes were certainly not smiling.

The clips stars SNL regulars Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon and guest starred Saoirse Ronan - who found fame in the hit movie ‘Brooklyn’ - and was the only cast member with a plausible Irish accent.  

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The skit starts with a joke about the similarities between Aer Lingus’ name and the word “cunnilingus”.

The flight “from Dublin to Cork, making connections to New York City” is delayed by a dog on the runway. Airport employee Kate McKinnon jazzed up in ginger hair and an Aran Island sweater informed passengers that, “We’re going to let the dog choose when he’s ready to move, it’s his will, his story, not ours, do you understand?”

Another hostess informs fliers that on the menu is “potatoes and… also potatoes”.

So needless to say, Ireland wasn’t impressed. Potato jokes became not funny in 1845 and that hasn’t changed since. 

The Irish Times panned the sketch but had warms words for Ronan, “Nothing more fully confirms her [Saoirse’s] professionalism than her ability to smile through these increasingly repetitive riffs.”

The take was even worse than anything cooked up by our neighbors across the Irish Sea, “No British sketch show would now even attempt these levels of Paddywhackery,” it opined tritely.

Author Louise O'Neill also oozed irritation at the skit: "The thing that bothered me the most about the SNL skit was the bloody potatoes. After spending a year in America with acne due to the hormones pumped into their food, my tolerance for mocking Irish diets is low. I was constantly asked if we ate anything other than ‘corned beef’ and ‘cabbage’ and ‘POTATOES’, pronounced in an accent Darby O’ Gill would be embarrassed by. Please stop."

Aer Lingus took the skit in good humour and copied nearly word for word one of Donald Trump’s tweets about Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him.

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But others were less happy, with the dog references confusing most twitter users. Had there been a dog in “The Quiet Man”?

The prominent satirical website, Waterford Whispers News advised horrified Irish people to wash their hands of the show: "And to think, you shared one of their videos earlier in the year. Now, they’ve made you look like a fool. Delete that there off social media to cover your tracks, but not before you get a bit angrier. Jesus, the accents!" it dramatically advised.

Online many seemed to have sympathy with their view. 

But others thought people were over reacting. 

What do you think? Is this worse than any skit the Brits have ever written about us or are people overreacting?