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Justice has been served. France are out of the World Cup and will return home in disarray with their reputation in tatters once again.
Our nation cried out against Les Bleus for each of their Group A games in South Africa and our pleas were heard as the host nation made sure of the French exit.
The Irish Independent gives Thierry Henry, aka Le Cheat, plenty of stick with a headline that reads, “End of World for Henry/Now hand of fate evens the scoreâ€.
Yesterday’s 2-1 defeat to South Africa brought the curtain down on the reign of Raymond Domenech on a bitter note. The France manager refused to shake hands with his South African counterpart Carlos Alberto Parreira after the game. Domenech turned to shake his own players’ hands instead.
The Irish Times headline over a picture of Henry and Domenech shaking hands reads, “Au revoir Les Bleus: Henry and Domenech in final handshake as France bow outâ€.
The Irish Examiner sums it up brilliantly in just two words, “JUSTICE POÉTIQUEâ€.
