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Well-known councillor tried to scrawl ‘Brits Out’ in graffiti in Donegal; wrote ‘Breasts Out’ instead

Published 14:56 6 Oct 2016 BST

Conor Heneghan
Well-known councillor tried to scrawl ‘Brits Out’ in graffiti in Donegal; wrote ‘Breasts Out’ instead

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Granted, he was only six years old at the time.

Independent councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easpuig has admitted scrawling the words ‘Breasts Out’ in graffiti in Donegal instead of his intended message, ‘Brits Out’, during the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland. The councillor, who has suffered with dyslexia, made the admission when speaking to Niall Delaney on Ocean FM's North West Today Show on Thursday morning. Mac Giolla Easpuig was just six years old when he scrawled the graffiti on a road in Donegal in an attempt to express his opposition to the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland. The words he scrawled instead, which he said have been the source of much slagging ever since, don’t exactly transmit the same message as the one intended. They might have led to an increase in tourists to the area at the time, mind, if even for a few days at least.

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Well-known councillor tried to scrawl ‘Brits Out’ in graffiti in Donegal; wrote ‘Breasts Out’ instead