“He came over in 2007 and saw the cottage next door to me and we went to Kilkenny to the old family home and out for dinner,” Fiona Clooney, George’s Irish cousin told the website. “I have to say, he’s such a lovely man. He’s a real genuine person and he’s so grounded and down to earth.”
The website also reported that Fiona has visited the Clooneys in the U.S. with her boyfriend, staying for three days with Nicholas and Nina in New York.
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“He treated us like the VIPs out there, because we were the Irish relatives,” Fiona said. She will be starring in a new documentary
And now George may be visiting Abbeyleix and Fiona himself, according to the
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian also visited the same area for their 2016 honeymoon. The location is set in the foothills of the Slieve Bloom mountains.