Ireland to sue EU Council for “lack of cultural sensitivity”

The Irish authorities are considering suing the Council of the European Union services after a cover note issued by the latter and including a letter of the Permanent Representative of Ireland, His Excellency Rory Montgomery, referred to the latter as “Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union”.

When the mistake was spotted, the Irish Permanent Representation immediately asked that the note be corrected, all copies retrieved from the Internet and apologies sent to their Ambassador. But the Council services shrugged the request off, replying “what’s the big deal anyway? No one reads this stuff anyway except geeky PhD students. And on top of that, Ireland, UK: it’s all islands with people going for drink binges, eating crap food and talking English with all sorts of funny accents”.

A spokesperson of the Irish government stated that this reply had been deemed unacceptable by Dublin, as it showed both a lack of understanding of the Irish/UK sensitivities and of the culinary talents of the Irish.

The UK authorities seemed to take the incident in a much lighter manner, even joking that the mistake was probably a desperate attempt of Europe to merge Ireland and the UK in order to make the UK enter the Eurozone through the back door.