Breakout Toy Show star Sheamie Garrihy has responded to the nation's reaction to his appearance on the festive RTE special on Friday night.
The seven-year-old, from Clare, was one of the toy testers who joined Patrick Kielty for the annual TV extravaganza, and left viewers in stitches with his quick wit and sense of humour.
Sheamie trended on social media all weekend following Friday's Toy Show, and is loving how the public have reacted to him.
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He said: "Sure I'm only seven, how would I know what nervous is?
"A load of young ones my own age were asking me for pictures with them and an autograph."
Sheamie added he has heard people are joking about setting up a GoFundMe page to buy him his first pint.
"I've been pulling pints before," he told the Irish Sun.
"When I was five I was pulling pints after my mammy's wedding, she had it out the back of the house and I was serving people because of Covid."
Mum Caitriona told of how proud she is of her son for showing his true personality on the Toy Show.
She said: "He was always like that. He's around older people all the time, my brothers would always be around and [his dad] Jamie's brothers."
X, formerly known as Twitter, went into overdrive on Friday night when the mullet-loving youngster appeared on the show.
"Give Sheamie his own show please @rte," wrote one viewer.
"Sheamie is some man for one man.," a second wrote.
A third laughed: "Seamie getting an awful puck off his Grandad when he gets home a gas young lad and what the #LateLateToyShow is all about even with a questionable mullet."
"Sheamie is the kind of ould fella you’d meet in the pub who knew your Granda," wrote a fourth fan.
"Sheamie was so much fun. I’d say he would’ve stayed there chatting all night. So entertaining," another praised.
While a sixth person gushed: "Sheamie is going down in the late late toy show hall of fame. a TRUE icon. #LateLateToyShow."
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