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The Galway senator came to notoriety earlier this year when she posited that the passage of same sex marriage in Ireland would signal the end of Mother’s Day.
Happy Mothers' day all! Hope we can continue to celebrate it after #SSM passed. In some US states Mothers & Father's Day banned #pcgonemad
— Dr. Fidelma Healy Eames (@fidelma4Europe) March 15, 2015
She also memorably definedfraping as “where you’re raped on Facebook”.
Last night, however, she may have just outdone herself.
During a Seanad debate on internet safety, Healy Eames was discussing the importance of WiFi and social media in the lives of young people when she committed an unthinkable gaffe.
Friday 22 November, 2024
Friday 22 November, 2024
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Fidelma Healy Eames pronounced WiFi as 'wiffy' and it was straight up mortifying
REMEMBER SENATOR FIDELMA Healy Eames?
The Galway senator came to notoriety earlier this year when she posited that the passage of same sex marriage in Ireland would signal the end of Mother’s Day.
She also memorably definedfraping as “where you’re raped on Facebook”.
Last night, however, she may have just outdone herself.
During a Seanad debate on internet safety, Healy Eames was discussing the importance of WiFi and social media in the lives of young people when she committed an unthinkable gaffe.
Reader, she pronounced WiFi as “whiffy”.
OH, FIDELMA.
So many questions. Has she always pronounced it this way and nobody has ever had the heart to correct her? Was it an accidental slip?
Needless to say, it has tickled everyone.
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Poor Fidelma.
This Irish TV reporter got wee’d on by a lamb and absolutely cracked up >
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Fidelma Healy-Eames whiffy WiFi