Anti-French ads a little offside
Recently a British tabloid newspaper's Irish edition offered a free World Cup T-shirt proclaiming "Anyone But The French". Now I see that Currys ("the UK's foremost electrical retailer") is offering money back on TVs sold here if France gets knocked out of the World Cup.
As someone who was at the Stade De France on the night of Thierry Henry's handball, I, with the vast majority of Irish people, not only football fans, bear no ill-will towards France.
It is in our nature to forgive and forget. Jingoistic immaturity may go down well across the water, but I don't need these companies bearing a grudge against France on my behalf.
LorcAn Bermingham
Baile Atha Cliath 7
Irish Independent
