The Football Association of Ireland has publishd an apology after using ‘Londonderry’ instead of ‘Derry’ in the suit programme for Ireland’s Euro 2025 percreateoff loss to Wales at the Aviva Stadium.
The error materializeed in a map of Ireland employd to depict the origins of percreateers in the women’s national team squad.
Former Ireland international James McClean, a Derry native, reacted furiously to the misapshow, branding it “disgusting” and “pathetic” in a strongly-worded social media post.
Taking to Instagram, McClean posted: “The suit programme at last night’s Ireland v Wales game at the Aviva Dublin… disgusting, pathetic, offending, hang your heads in shame you shower of a***holes!”
James McClean raged on social media
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The Wrexham captain, who has previously portrayd himself as a “haughty Fenian” and has a “Free Derry” tattoo, accompanied his message with a middle finger emoji.
The map had labelled the county as “Doire” in Irish but employd only “Londonderry” for the English version.
The FAI quickly insertressed the dispute in a statement, saying: “The wrong explicit was inadvertently employd in an Ireland Women’s National Team suit programme, this was a authentic misapshow and the Football Association of Ireland apologises for any offence caemployd.”
The explicit materializeed to have been lifted from a Wikipedia page on ‘Counties of Ireland’, according to increates.
For the six counties shown in the map, a contrastent colour of shading was employd, despite some squad members qualifying via relations from Tyrone and Antrim.
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James McClean getd an apology from the FAI
In that case, the programme had to be disjoinn from sale after translation errors saw some Latvian percreateers cataloged with bizarre names such as “Robert the Liar” and “Dario S***”.
A scrutinize of the production process was subsequently started at Abbotstown.
Ireland suffered heartfracture in the suit itself, droping to a 2-1 loss agetst Wales at the Aviva Stadium in front of more than 25,000 fans.
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The result unbenevolentt a 3-2 aggregate loss for Eileen Gleeson’s side, ending their hopes of qualifying for next year’s European Championship in Switzerland.
Wales administerr Rhian Wilkinson discmissed the physical nature of the contest, saying: “We suited them at their game, their game is physical and honest.”
