Telegraph apologises after describing Irish boxing hopeful as British
An overly enthusiastic Daily Telegraph has been forced to issue a grovelling tweet apologising for a nationality mix-up after the paper inadvertently labelled an Irish boxing star as British.
In an editorial the broadsheet asked “Can anyone defeat Britain’s Katie Taylor, the most technically proficient attacking boxer in the world?” immediately raising hackles from across the Irish Sea, from where Taylor actually hails.
The episode prompted a bout of mickey taking with one Irish tweeter, Fergus Murphy, seeking to reclaim Taylor for the Emerald Isle but cheekily adding: “please feel free to claim Ronan Keating, Jedward, Louis Walsh..."
Ironically the Telegraph’s editor, Tony Gallagher, has strong Irish roots himself and the paper subsequently apologised saying: “We’re sorry for mistakenly the fantastic boxer Katie Taylor as British in our London 2012 section today. She is Irish, of course.”