A game Irish leader is in residence (6)

I believe the answer is:

housie

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'a game irish' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'leader is in residence' is the wordplay.
'leader' says to take the initial letters.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'residence' becomes 'house' (house is a type of residence).
The first letter of 'is' is 'i'.
'i' put into 'house' is 'HOUSIE'.

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