Actor Bill Murray poses for pictures at Greysteel storage

Hollywood actor Bill Murray was something however a “Scrooge,” when he stopped to speak to followers in a store in Greysteel, County Londonderry on Friday morning.

The 75-year-old actor, star of movies resembling Ghostbusters, Lost in Translation and Groundhog Day, has been travelling throughout the island of Ireland this month.

Staff working at Lynch’s Eurospar have been fast to ask the actor for {a photograph} after recognizing him exterior the store.

The actor’s brother Joel volunteered to take the picture of Murray and some of the deli counter workers.

In the final week he has travelled to County Sligo, the place he purchased a few of the regulars in a neighborhood pub drinks, and to Ardara in County Donegal.

On Tuesday, Murray stopped into The Beach Bar in County Sligo alongside his brother and fellow actor Joel in addition to Irish comic Joanne McNally.

Darren McDermott, who’s a supervisor on the bar, instructed BBC News NI mentioned he knew that some celebrities have been making an look later, “but we didn’t quite know who”.

However he had an inkling about who may flip up.

“I suspected that it might be Bill as he was about the local area that day, we just didn’t know until he showed up,” he mentioned.

“He bought some of the locals a few drinks, had a few laughs but he was very down to earth”.

The bar supervisor, who isn’t any stranger to celeb guests, took it in its stride

“We’ve had film crews pass by before, with a few celebrities like Cillian Murphy and Peter Dinklage,” mentioned Mr McDermott.