10,000 text Joe Duffy to express frustration

MORE than 10,000 people got busy with their thumbs to text Joe Duffy’s Liveline radio programme in frustration at the outcome of Wednesday’s fiasco in Paris.

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the 10-minute ‘telepoll’ came back with the result that 95% of listeners wanted the France-Ireland game replayed following Thierry Henry’s admission that he handled the ball before supplying the pass that allowed William Gallas to head the winner past Shay Given.

But it wasn’t just at home that football fans and the Irish public took to airing their views on the controversy.