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London 2012IRELAND’S BRIGHTEST GOLD medal hope Katie Taylor takes on Mavzuna Chorieva this afternoon in an Olympic semi-final.
But it looks like some of the British media will be slotting the Bray woman’s first Games medal under the Team GB column on the medal table whether it’s bronze, silver or gold, ultimately.
“Can anyone defeat Britain’s Katie Taylor,” the newspaper asks this morning, “the most technically proficient attacking boxer in the world?”
They’ve got over 20 golds already… can’t they leave us have Katie?
Update: The Telegraph have tweeted an apology for the mistake and after Taylor’s win in her Olympic semi-final, the newspaper’s editor added his best wishes. “Congratulations to Katie Taylor, from…ahem… Ireland…on reaching the boxing final,” Tony Gallagher wrote.
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Disgraceful!
Get over it !
Journalists get paid to do a job they are supposed to be experts at and not make stupid ridiculous mistakes like that. They probably wrote that on purpose!
There is a wind-up element in the Torygraph….
Anyway, so we’ll have those medals won by NI athletes, thank you. How many is that now for Team Ireland? Wonderful, innit?
Storm in a teacup. Stupid error by a misinformed journalist, not some grand conspiracy…
Does it matter? When she fights it clearly says Ireland on her back and when she wins gold she’ll wrap a Tri-colour around her! She’s Irish, NOT British!
@ Declan: Journalists might be experts but everyone makes mistakes, especially when they are probably working very long hours at present covering hundreds of athletes over lots of various sports.
I hope you don’t hold everyone to such a high standard because if so, you must be constantly disappointed!
Darren, you do realise that people from the north of Ireland are also Irish, yea?
In case you had any doubts, maybe ask them to flash your their passports. I’m pretty sure they’ll have a harp on them!
Its the Daily Telegraph, what do you expect?! Rubbish newspaper!
It’s a bit English!
Take it as flattery…when you hear them calling her English it means they admire her…just the english press doing what it does best…stirring!
Daily Torygraph more like
Well done Katie Taylor we know where your from, the rest doesn’t matter. And as for claiming footballers, we don’t claim that they’re Irish, they do that themselves.
A silly mistake, making them look silly.
…but not the end of the world.
Ireland’s Chris Hoy did a great job winning gold yesterday…
The Brits can have Bray.
Is that you Ross O’Carroll Kelly?
She would be better off!
In a team with a winning mentality.
Instead of spending time with the losers of Team Ireland.
Plus we claim their football teams as our own every day of the week.
What an angry man :(
You are the loser Jason.
How do team GB have a greater winning mentality??
We have a nation of about 4 million people, whereas GB has a population of about 62 million. This would mean that they would have a greater chance of winning medals than we ever would.
Personally I think Ireland has had a great mentality this Olympiad, we have 3 boxers with at least a bronze and a fair chance of Gold or Silver, we had a sailor who came 4th, but who had put in a great effort and did her country proud. Our support has been pretty good.
So how exactly are we losers?
If we get 4 medals we will have a far better medals per capita ratio than Team GB do they’re not that great!
if ya knew what you were talking about it would be quite handy, shes after thumping every english opponent she ever faced, 4 time world champion and 3 time european champion and all the men on her squad are ranked in the world top ten how is dat a team with loosing mentality, why would she want to be on the british team that she walks over quite handily.
your ill informed and have no idea what your talking about.
As Sean says, you’d EXPECT all things being completely equal, for the UK to have 15+ times as many medals as us. Plus, of course, there’s an economy of scale at work: the more millions of potential athletes you have, the less of a strain, per athlete, it is to provide adequate training facilities.
Congratulations to Britain’s Andy Murray on his Gold medal. Commiserations to Scotland’s Andy Murray on his Silver.
I’m not informed enough on team Ireland to comment but agree with you completely re football. These fools are the exact same ones who follow British football teams. Some patriots eh!
Katie Taylor would have a lesser chance of competing in the olympics if she had been raised in Britain as their team is disproportionately represented by the privately educated.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2182802/Want-child-win-Olympic-medal-Then-send-independent-school-.html
There is a lot of stupidity here.
Just because someone is interested in an English team or an Brazil one, be they interested in Japanese sumo personalities or Canadian ice hockey teams – does not make them any less a ‘patriot’ when its needed or not!
As pointed out by good posters, the population ratio of medals won to numbers living in either country shows that despite – in fact in the face of – desperate times at home, many good Irish sports people can rise above the norm’ and do their very best.
Well done to them and thank you for showing Ireland just cannot be written off by the begrudgers and stupid of a country!
Good on GB doing so well when they’re the home team. But it’s ridiculous to compare the two in size of population and funding for sports. It’s absolutely ridiculous to claim that Ireland has a “losing mentality.” Should we all be Chinese, then?
No thanks!!
That’s some sh@t talk. We should get over stuff like that. In fairness the English public have been very supportive of all our athletes. Look at the way they cheered home the Irish marathon runner who was last. They don’t get upset every time an Irish person makes a stupid comment about the English, neither should we. Move on
Don’t say “we” claim their football stars. You hardly have the right to call yourself Irish with a statement like that!!
ah poor jason probably doesn’t even know what achieving something for himself is, it’s ok you go back to pretending big strong you won all those medals. respect to all olympic athletes and the spirit of GOOD SPORT.
they always do that, it is not a mistake and no we shouldn’t get over it, when someone is winning they become British, if the loose there Irish again, i know these muppets get paid to write rubbish 90% of the time anyway but mistakes like this in international games should not be made simple as that. if your that stupid not to be able to source the right info then the simple answer would be to Google it or at least turn on your television.
Well said!
It’s done with Andy Murray, regularly, but this seems to be a genuine mistake. Especially since every other reference to her is as being Irish.
They are ‘always’ doing it with Scottish competitors, for sure. But Scotland IS part of the UK. They know Ireland isn’t part of the UK, but whoever wrote that didn’t know Taylor is Irish. It’s just a mistake. That is all. No conspiracy. For one thing, I’ll bet very few people in the UK have even heard of Katie Taylor. She’s a big name here, but I doubt anyone over there could name a single one of the women’s boxers.
Her father is from Surrey after all…we’ve been nabbing brits for our football team for years…
Different situation, we need the footballers with the Irish parents/grandparent more so than any other sport, the depth just isn’t there.
my mam was english, but i was born and raised in ireland so im irish with british family but not british. theres a difference
I was born in England to Irish parents & lived there until I was 13, I now live in Ireland. Does that make Irish or English? Personally I consider myself to be Irish!
God save the Queen!
Can I play?
I was born in Ireland and I’ve always lived in Ireland and my mam is Irish and my dad was Irish.
Does that make me Lithuanian?
I had a pizza last night…that mean I’m Italian?
Who cares we know she is Irish and so do we Let’s leave it at that !!!
There are 100s if not 1000s of journalists from all over the world there, if any of them use that article as reference it will go around the world that she’s British.
Declan, it won’t.
Oh yeah, and when she wins Gold and wraps a Tri colour around her, the world will gasp with confusion! :)
@Declan, it won’t. It’s the Telegraph after all :)
How about a united Ireland and we won’t have to listen to any more wrong commits
We are part of the British Isles after all
Looks like we have our share of trolls or idiots too. With the above comment, I suspect both occassionaly at the same time!
Celtic Archipelago
Look again, Len.
I suspect Lenbarry123 didn’t shine too much in his Geography Leaving cert exam then!
why did you remove my comment
No way!!!!!
No such thing as the British Isles
Same story..when their doing well their British and when their not their Irish.. We know shes irish through and through.. Come on team Ireland..
Try they’re!
Predictive text IAN..But thanks for pointing that out!!!
remember when Barry McGuigan won his title , Mrs. Thatcher said he was a “true Brit.”
I’ve suggested they publish a front page apology in tomorrow’s paper.
If anyone can see this error online they’ll amend it.
I heard that Irish athletes Sir Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins are up in arms over this.
Sure, aren’t U2 and all the hugely successful other Irish people assumed to be british by their media when we do well…… Andy Murray is a great example British now that he won the medal, but Scotish when he lost Wimbeldon
Yeah, except that he actually IS both British and Scottish. Katie Taylor is never going to be British. Ever.
So Mondays fight was Britain vs Britain??? Thick!
Katie was Irelands flag bearer, the Irish fans have made the most noise of the entire British Olympics for Taylor, she is Irelands biggest hope and she is simply the best in the world at what she does, not only Ireland but the whole world can see that and maybe she will be the lasting legacy of these olympics with the whole issue surrounding womans boxing and how she has firmly put it in the spotlight, maybe, just maybe there jealous of that.
Her father is from Leeds so that’s perhaps what this journalist’s faux pas was based on.
Remember Danny Boyle and the references to his mother from Ballinasloe?
Many people from these islands have shared heritage.
Let’s celebrate that rather than reverting to the old 1916 position.
the telegraph thinks the whole world is british, who cares?
She doesn’t need motivation,still no harm to pin the article (no not the journalist) to the dressing room wall.
North Korea should hire that reporter.
When she wins gold there will be a tri colour on her back , that’s what matters
exactly, end of this storm in a tea cup!!
You see the problem is this: When an athlete does well they are British. When they’re off their game they are Irish, Scottish (take Andy Murray coming 2nd in Wimbledon for example) or Welsh. It isn’t new but that doesn’t make it any less annoying when it happens.
Sorry but winning or losing Katie is not and can never be British. Simple as that.
You are uptight Lynne. Relax!
Are we surprised at this faux pas ?
With the low life standards in British journalism , more recently highlighted by their criminal phone eavesdropping activities .
Methinks that our hard earned medals will be very much appreciated by our people , considering the hugely limited resources our representatives operate under on the World stage.
I’m personally very proud of ALL of our heroic representatives in the Olympics.
Agreed. Medals or not, they have all represented the country proudly. Well done to all.
Now Katie go and pulverise the last women standing!!
Don’t have the heart to tell them,the empire days are gone!..
They probably got confused because she’s good and will get a medal. If Ireland want more people like Katie and more medals, Ireland needs to properly invest in sports. Didn’t Enda visit her training centre and was embarrassed that it was a dive and hadn’t even got a toilet? She got no money for it, still did us proud yet Enda salutes the ‘homegrown’ athlete.
Most of our Irish athletes train in the UK because they have better facilities, better training equipment and there is more investment in it. Having lived in the UK they have top of the range running tracks everywhere, the training facilities for athletes are second to none yet our best athlete has to run across the road to use a toilet until our taoiseach got embarrassed and promised her one. Even up North they have much more. Sports clubs in towns come together and build a top spec facility. In Ireland the GAA won’t talk to soccer or track and field.
In Carrickmacross, Monaghan the local GAA club, the soccer club and running club were seeking funding as all were building new facilities. It would have made sense to come together as a town and community and build it all on one plot and make this high end sports centre. Instead, as usual, the small minded want their own to themselves and went their seperate ways and now there is a substandard running track that is sinking on one end, a GAA club that ran out of money leacing an incomplete becase the buyer of the old GAA grounds only paid half and went bust and finally the soccer club ending up staying put playing on a slanted bumpy hill. The town could have hosted sporting meets and all sorts, encouraging youngsters to take up these sports. An oppurtunity to have these facilities on one site and the typical small minded begrudgers let it slip by.
Also from what I have heard there is wonderful support and feeling of goodwill from across the water towards Team Ireland.
The telegraph journalist obviously not up to speed on world news – how did they miss the fighting Irish story?
Who cares, seriously it looks like a careless mistake to me. What does annoy me however is the very poor coverage from our own papers that the equestrian eventing team received, we got a team fifth coming ahead of some of the worlds top teams such as the US and Australia and this was against all odds with very bad luck on the cross country phase and a seventh place in the individual beating Zara Philips who was on the UK team getting a silver and ex Olympic US medallist Karen O’Connor, they deserved more.
Great to see people’s lives are so great they complain about something small like this.
And for all you people still giving out about Britain, cop on. Most of us have never been affected by Britain’s rule. Most of us know someone who’s gone to Britain to get work and we’ve said “well done Tom or Mary” when do they do get work over there.
Some people aren’t happy unless they’re miserable.
I wouldn’t be getting too excited about anything written in that rag ! The world will know she is Irish when she wins , trust me !!
The British id say would be more embarrassed by that than us, I know I would if one of our journalists tried to claim Jessica Ennis as ours…nevertheless shes ours We, Them and I know.
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If you really are a fan of Katie Taylor,then don’t insult her father’s country.
Who in their right mind would pay any attention to the brits, they still do not see that the empire is gone ,they still think Dublin is part of the uk.
What a prized possession Dublin would be – lol!
Another british paper did something similar they had the three gold medalist on the front page – Chris Hoy, Laura Trott and the British Dressage team …only they had a picture of the Dutch bronze medalist team instead…
Quality journalism from the Telegraph, as per usual
Sure just last week they said St Patrick was Spanish .. Awful cheek of them haha
It’s great to be on a site populated by such perfect individuals. I mean none of those going mental about this above have ever made a typo I’m sure. And sure the Journal or the Score websites never ever make any mistakes either.
Bit of a non-story to be honest. Maybe the apology they made earlier will be added to the story.
Typical of the Brits it was the same years ago harry carpenter commentating on mc guigan fights when he won its was a great British victory and if he lost it was a sad loss for the Irish. At least Katie knows she’s Irish wrapping herself in the tricolour and been the flag bearer for team Ireland. C’mon Katie
Rule Britannia!
For now… But Analise Murphy will fight tooth and nail in the next Olympics to take the waves off Britannia too!
Britannia don’t even rule the waves of a pebble in a pond. Their day has gone!
Katie is Irish plain and simple that’s why my home town and Katies is crammed as we speak with reporters and her fans who will be watching on big screens in her home town bray co.wicklow
So those papers can print any shit they like when Katie brings her medal home it will be home to bray ! Also her father may come from the UK but has spent more of his life here Katie was born here and is an Irish citizen
Also can I just say all team GB think about is the medal table every night that’s all sky news have disgraceful when that little girl Tia is missing she should be headlining the news over there
Rant over
Well said Kay
You’re wrong actually, I’m watching Sky News at the moment, and their top story is about the missing girl, as well as the Breaking News at the bottom. Anyway, you surely can’t blame them for covering the Olympics, it’s in their own capital.
Crap paper talking crap…..the whole world knows exactly where Katie is from because she makes sure of it. She is so proud of who she is and being IRISH and a wonderful role model what country wouldn’t want to claim her as theirs. Best of luck to her today.
you have to give it to the British, they’ll try an steal anything, get over it she’s the female IRISH sporting hero for her time, go all the way Katie.
The umbrage being taken over this is pathetic and slightly embarrassing.
Where else would you get it?
the umbrage taken at the article is tiny, it’s more a role the eyes and say they’ve done it again.. the umbrage taken at that is excessive! It’s a running joke that Britain regularly claims Irish people as there own whe they are doing well, then if they fall or embarrass themselves they are Irish again. THe Scots and Welsh have the same joke with the English.
Why are some people so precious about Britain that they cannot handle anything mildly or vaguely critical of Britain and respond to it in such an excessive and ott way. This reaction completely dwarfs the irritation at the article. WE should be at a stage where we can slag off or say come on in regards to something British without this ridiculous reaction.
The hostile and oh I’m so embarrassed over reaction by people is what is really pathetic. Get over it, no one really went mad about the “mistake” in the article, but people did about any criticism of the article.
Same old story Barry mcguigan went in to the ring Irish but when he won came out British. Yet when he lost he was back to being Irish again!!!
They just tweetted an apology :)
Jesus wept, if a Spanish paper said she was Spanish, we’d be all posting pictures on facebook with sombrero hats and wearing them at the final tomorrow joking and laughing……..we all know the background, anybody with an education can read the history and anyone with eyes tomorrow will see she’s Irish when she wins the gold medal and stands proud with a tri colour. get over it, all will be settled tomorrow
Who cares?
Why are we so insecure that we get so easily offended?
It’s just a little bit of small nation syndrome.
Is this not the same paper that a couple of months ago printed an article and pic of Jessica Ennis declaring she was too fat? Why worry about them 2nd rate journos who couldn’t be bothered to check their facts before printing.
Yesterday the Daily Telegraph published a piece on the Derny, the 98cc motorcycle used in the Kirin in track cycling. They described it as an electric bike, they even had a photograph of the motorcycle ….. lazy idiots
They somehow made out she’s british ever though she was the Irish flag bearer at the opening ceremony!!!
Ye well it just makes themselves look stupid to the rest of the world
As a matter of interest, has anybody asked the Torygraph for a comment on this? I’d love to get an insight into why certain sections of the British media do this repeatedly. More interested in understanding it than in losing sleep over it.
The Daily Telegraph gets it so wrong Yet Again. Katie Taylor is Irish and fighting under Team Ireland……. Clue is in the Name People…. GO KATIE FOR TEAM IRELAND :-) :-)
Let’s face it, if it wasn’t for the Brit’s ‘empire’, they’d be pretty rubbish too except for a few posh sports like rowing and horsey stuff…
Am can we have our champion back please she’s home grown Irish
Our Katie is all Irish how many other mistakes do they make ????????????
For Ireland Ireland to say, for god’s sake not again! in response to the article is a pretty moderate reaction. These other people, “the get over it, get over the past” brigade who always come out when there is any criticism or Britain are the ones blowing things out of proportion. In fact to not be living in the past is to be free to say something critical of Britain without fear of being attacked and shut up, to live in the past is to be so precious about things that no negative comment on anything British can be allowed…. reminded of Basil Fawlty’s don’t mention the war! shhh don’t say anything bad against the British they’ll think we hate every last one of them! Look at my hypocrisy I like Fawlty Towers! Thats a British show!!!.. just like the hypocrites who watch man united (does that have to be brought up every time anything like this comes up) but are annoyed at Katie being called British. Cop on, being able to like Britain and be critical when required is maturity! Cying havoc and getting up in arms if anyone says anything against anything from Britain is massive immaturity. The thing out of proportion is not our reaction to British media yet again claiming and Irish person as their’s, it is the reaction to us being irritated by it. Cop on, I think they can take a bit of a slagging over this.
The telegraph apologised for their mistake on twitter! Methinks they must have got a serious telling off from the Irish!
No one in Ireland claims the Chamber Brothers as Irish, since the removal of Articles 2 & 3, the Irish nation respects personal identity and self-determination. It’s a shame the British media who claim Katie Taylor but call the likes of Bradley Wiggins and Mo Farrah as Plastic Brits, and insult Andy Murray every year for being “Scottish” have to resort to such measures.
Most of these papers back British tax evaders, the real plastic Brits.
*Chambers
The only syndrome, or the main one anyway is the “don’t say anything bad about the british” syndrome… have we not reached a stage where we can be critical of a british action without all this over reaction to it. there is nothing wrong with us taking a bit of issue with this, the way some people are talking you would swear we closed our embassy in london as a protest… grow up people!
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