Feel free to advertise your own ignorance.
The problem the English/British have had with the Irish is precisely the opposite of treating them like "English people with a funny accent". It's that they've been consistently, over hundreds of years, treated as a colonised people less important...
Dunk signed a new contract last summer:
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11741/12053941/brighton-captain-lewis-dunk-signs-new-five-year-deal
https://www.bt.com/sport/news/2020/august/brighton-captain-lewis-dunk-signs-new-long-term-contract
I include 2 links since: