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forth elsewhere: Irish fans take on perfidious France

Mon 23 Nov, 2009

forth popped along to the loud, green and peculiar anti-Henry protests outside the French embassy in Dublin, reporting for spiked

“L’Affaire Henry, by contrast, cannot be described as a political issue, though it is now taking on commonplace cod-political dimensions: boycotts of French wine have been mooted (though most corner stores in Ireland don’t stock much French wine anyway, instead specialising in flogging nasty rot-gut at a huge mark-up). Some fans have talked about boycotting Gillette products, because Henry advertises them. What next? A campaign of deportation for snails? Escargot out!”

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