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Irishman with a fine political party? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gael

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'irishman' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'with a fine political party?' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a fine political' becomes 'gae' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'party?' becomes 'l'.
'gae' put next to 'l' is 'GAEL'.

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(Other definitions for gael that I've seen before include "Celt of Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and the IOM" , "Celtic language speaker" , "Irish speaker?" , "Highland Scot" , "Scottish highlander" .)

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