As the news is sinking in that Britain is opting to leave the European Union behind, Ireland must look to her own interests.

Now that the pound is essentially tanking and the knock-on effects to the film and television industry can't even yet be quantified, it's high time some of our best and brightest who crossed the Irish Sea returned home.

It's for their best interests, really - especially considering England's quite likely to go all 28 Days Later pretty soon.

 

10. CHRIS O'DOWD

Roscommon needs you, Chris O'Dowd. Ireland needs you. Plus, Moone Boy - what's the story? Another season? It could happen, y'know.

 

9. ANNIE MAC

Basically, Annie Mac needs to return home, create the Irish version of Boiler Room and basically hang around Workman's or wherever and DJ the rest our lives.

 

8. LAURA WHITMORE

The IFTAs was two years ago, Laura. All is forgiven. Return home to Bray, we're all worried.

 

7. SHARON HORGAN

Look, we know you've got that HBO thing going on with Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church and we're absolutely delighted for you. But would you not think of coming home and maybe doing it with people from Fair City? No? Fair enough, so.

 

6. DARA O'BRIAIN

He can come back and restart Echo Island. True story - we were on the HotSeat Quiz with Dara O'Briain and our specialist subject was The Jungle Book. We wanted it to be Batman Forever, but RTE said that the film was 12s and we weren't allowed talk about it.

 

5. GRAHAM LINEHAN

Graham Linehan returns to RTE and does another season of The Walshes. No, wait, better idea - Graham Linehan does a Veep-style comedy about the Dáil and we call it Sheep. Amazing. Yes.

 

4. MICHAEL FASSBENDER

Bring Alicia Vikander with you, sure. She'll love it here.

 

3. LIAM NEESON

We promise, we will never get you to do the line from Taken again.

 

2. ANGELA SCANLON

Look, as much as we really want to see a new season of Robot Wars, it's clearly not safe in England anymore. If your heart is really set on murderous robots, Angela Scanlon, we can go to one of those crappy gadget shops and stick a few knives on one of the drones or something. Sound good?

 

1. GRAHAM NORTON

Three words: LATE LATE SHOW.