Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – AKA CMAT – is puzzling over the menu of the department store restaurant on a sunny London afternoon. “This place is weird,” she says with a grin, her tooth gem glinting. “I ...

Country singer CMAT has said a “fake version” of Irish culture is being “being built up by Americans and English people and claimed for themselves”. The 29-year-old, whose real name is Ciara ...