Why is the British media unhappy with Biden's Irish visit?

He didn’t take a single chance to put a foot on mainland Britain.

All the way over here, this side of the Atlantic and the British PM gets summoned to over to Belfast for a quick hello and photo op…

nail on the head there.

Andrew Jackson was of Ulster Scots background, what we might call unionists today.

A lot of pre famine Irish immigrants to the US were Ulster Scots

Biden even made reference to them in his Ballina speech.

Obama was definitely taking the piss as he only found out through genealogical research when he was running for president.

The Kennedys as you said were WASP wannabes.

Regan had a great grandfather born in Ireland, same as Biden, but was brought up in an evangelical household.

And this is where Biden is different, not only is he Irish American by ancestry, he was also brought up in an Irish American household, an Irish American environment.

Many Americans use the Irish American label as just that, a label.

When people arrived during the famine it no longer mattered if you were from Cork or Galway or Kerry. What mattered was you were Irish and different from Germans, Italians, Polish etc.

And that just passed down the generations and got watered down.

But not in Biden's case, the link to Ireland was always strong.

He wasn't trying to fit in with the elites like the Kennedys, his Irishness was not just a footnote like Regan, or completely unknown like Obama.

And even though Michael Ring may have encouraged him to say "Mayo for Sam" he still knew what he was talking about.

And this is what ultimately annoys some in the UK.

He has a personal connection with this small nation that they always saw as inferior and happens to be getting in the way of delivering Brexit properly.

If conservative commentators in the UK are not indicative of conservative / Conservative opinion in the UK, then I'm surprised that Conservative party members and MPs and Lords and the newspapers and other media that they own / write for / board sit / sharehold in, don't instruct the Editors of those entities to retain contributors that DO more accurately reflect the pulse of the conservative thinker and voter.

Short version? He does reflect a cohort of conservative opinion. That large cohort which is regressing all the time, harking after glory days that never actually existed.

Ulster Scots tend to see themselves as British.

If they see themselves in any way Irish it's in the context of Irish in the British nation. Just like a Scot that was a unionists would still refer to themselves as Scottish.

This was his third visit to Ireland since 2016, and his third time in Mayo since 2016, but you have been put right on that already.

And the Mayo For Sam line was indeed scripted, but Biden was fully aware what it referred to.

Ireland's fiercest and most strategic rebels and home ruler politicians were protestants.

Religion has nothing to do with it anymore. Its a dispute now between the insular loyalist sink estates who follow Rangers and fly Union Flags and read Kelvin McKenzie in The S*n versus upwardly mobile educated nationalist Gen Z.