Irish clubs feel the pain of leaving the eurozone

Is there a handy Grexit-style word out there to sum up Irish football’s departure from Europe this week?

Irish clubs feel the pain of leaving the eurozone

Irexit is awful. Airexit doesn’t work. Loiexit is even clunkier. All things considered, I think we might as well just settle for Feckit.

Notwithstanding a smattering of memorable nights and shock results down all the years, culminating in Shamrock Rovers’ unprecedented breakthrough to the Europa League group stage in 2012, League of Ireland clubs generally travel to the continent more in hope than expectation.

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