(Pic: Gary Lyons)

AS YOU MIGHT remember, our Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore is no stranger to a selfie or two.

This means that it should come as no surprise that he was willing to play his part in a recreation of the now iconic Oscars selfie set-up by Ellen DeGeneres.

The Tánaiste is pictured here with “some of the O2 crew” at the SFA Awards in Trinity College Dublin, Gary who sent us the photo said.

Read: The internet is drowning in a sea of copycat Ellen selfies >

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Pic: Has Eamon Gilmore just done a selfie in South Africa? >

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