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30th Jul 2016

Barcelona stars get a touching visit from Celtic’s Jay Beatty in Dublin

Enda Conway

Pure class.

Jay Beatty has moved on from just Celtic super fan. He’s even moved on from Goal of the Month winner.

The Armagh native is now a fully-fledged ambassador of the Celtic FC Foundation so, not that he wouldn’t have been there anyway, going to Dublin for the Celtic-Barca match was simply an obligation.

But, whilst he was in town, he was treated to a visit from some of football’s biggest ever names.

The Barcelona account posted pictures of Wee Jay with Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi as well as club boss Luis Enrique before they took for Lansdowne Road.

The Catalan giants travelled to the Irish capital on Saturday to get their new season up and running and they didn’t hold back with the names they brought for the occasion.

Their training though wasn’t exactly rigorous…

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