@Ireland Twitter account faces backlash after series of “homophobic” tweets

Tweeting dodgy remarks from your own personal account is bad enough, but when you're invited to speak for nation it's doubly true.

Perhaps Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri should have thought a little harder before sending these tweets from the @Ireland Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ireland/status/641992495006642176 https://twitter.com/ireland/status/642001651331670016 The @Ireland account is curated by a different person every week, with the idea that no one voice can speak for a nation and that a shared account can "help to further connect Ireland to the world and the world to Ireland through the different voices that curate the account each week." But Al-Qadri's comments won't have gone down well, as they came just days after he posted tweets describing homosexuality as a sin... https://twitter.com/ireland/status/640898518832533504 https://twitter.com/ireland/status/641179763919454208 Ireland recently became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote, so it's no surprise that people did not take kindly to these sentiments... https://twitter.com/JoshuaColquhoun/status/642003135859425280 https://twitter.com/newswardie/status/642002042886717440 https://twitter.com/robthemasterg/status/642001903451262976 https://twitter.com/trisarrrahtops/status/641998921968013312 https://twitter.com/IzzyKamikaze/status/641997230040305664