Agree with them! then hit them from behind with reality of what is actually going on.
It is not just because Lennon is Irish or Catholic or both.
Because these
ignorant born and bread bigots are at least aware they are no longer a clear majority living in a land that systemically promotes them, or allows them to do as please like their racist ignorant bigot ancestors knew they could, they need today to not only be more subtle, but need to attempt to show some reasoned thought for their inherited unquestioned ignorance, for their pathological hate.
So they will point to others Irish and Catholic, like MON and Pat Fenlon and suggest the problem is just Lennon!
Barry McGuigan, Terry Wogan were generally loved! two high profile examples they'll no doubt quote! of the irish they have no real problem with at least to their face and with for now! why? because both were prepared or happy and wanted to equate being Irish with being or also british.
They detest Neil Lennon because he is overtly proudly Celtic and a Irishman, one who stated he wanted to play for a united Ireland team
when foolishly choosing to play for the statelet side.
The coin was thrown, the bullets and bombs sent, because these bigot racist ignorant sub breed of british-scots and their kind , hate the sight of anything distinctly Irish, or anyone proud of being Irish,
the real motive for labels like plastic paddy.
That someone Irish is daring to behave like many other managers have across Scotland
(head stands and a lot worse), that is beyond their stomach and sleep.
This is what they hate.
Irish or not anyone who is proud of being Irish, anyone that implies or states Irish and Ireland are distinct, that is what the ignorant extreme british nationalists hate can not handle, would not matter what if any religion the person has.
Remember their list of who to hate includes the likes of Ken Livingston, Jeremy Corbyn., it is anyone who shows any respect for Irish and Ireland as being distinct.
It's the Irish these inherited proudly ignorant racists live to hate, many of the most extreme haters are recently of Irish ancestry or with Irish names, ignorance and myths do not stop or care for reality or credibility.
Expose that reality, expose what these people are - extreme ignorant perversions of british nationalism.
Can you counter them with not with like minded simplicity and hate? when they revel in it, can only exist because of simple hate!
Only knowledge used to counter them has the overwhelming power to expose them, a force they have no credible answer to.
Bust their myths, reveal them as pathetically ignorant and nothing but typical base haters without cause or thought process. Not typically Scots or even typically British, just simple extremist ignorant racists for no reason, someone else has to be to blame.
It's our turn to divide them!
Counter them only with reality and credible points, not to them directly! no point as thought only winds them up, their kind are not interested in thought or self questioning, so work around them, expose them. Most of all continue and ramp up being proud of being Irish and
repeat it loud and if necessary repetitively and with something they don't have, a genuine culture beyond a statement.
Knowledge destroys them, is able to deconstruct them, and dilute them! is able to clearly divide them from anyone with a thought and half decent, and make them even less, a diminishing sad old pile of winter leaf, fit only for recycling into something anew and worthwhile.
They are not
typically Scots or even typically British, just simple extremist ignorant racists for no reason apart from inheritance, someone else has to be to blame for their extremes, their pathological hate, and their leading pitiful pointless lives.
The Irish anywhere need to be aware because sadly Brexit is going to encourage the most ignorant.
As do the distinctly Scots who want independence, who are today now hated as much as the Irish, proof times are changing. They used to own the claim of Scot, or at least assumed they did and could because of what once clearly was but is no longer.
They don't know who they are today, it is your job to encourage that.