Looks like Senator Fidelma Healy Eames believes that Wi-Fi is pronounced 'wiffy'

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

By DailyEdge.ie Thursday 2 Jul 2015, 10:04 PM

Jul 2nd 2015, 10:04 PM 34,243 Views 101 Comments

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REMEMBER SENATOR FIDELMA Healy Eames?

The Galway senator came to notoriety earlier this year when she posited that the passage of same sex marriage in Ireland would signal the end of Mother’s Day.

Happy Mothers' day all! Hope we can continue to celebrate it after #SSM passed. In some US states Mothers & Father's Day banned #pcgonemad
— Dr. Fidelma Healy Eames (@fidelma4Europe) March 15, 2015

Source: Fidelma Healy Eames/Twitter

She also memorably defined fraping as “where you’re raped on Facebook”.

Last night, however, she may have just outdone herself.

During a Seanad debate on internet safety, Healy Eames was discussing the importance of WiFi and social media in the lives of young people when she committed an unthinkable gaffe.

Reader, she pronounced WiFi as “whiffy”.
http://vine.co/v/e1KIjgrLIJ2

OH, FIDELMA.

So many questions. Has she always pronounced it this way and nobody has ever had the heart to correct her? Was it an accidental slip?

Needless to say, it has tickled everyone.

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Anyone else's wiffy really slow at the moment? Must be the heat.
@senhealyeames
— David Donohoe (@dvddnh) July 2, 2015

Source: David Donohoe/Twitter

I have all the wiffy codes and you can't have any, @senhealyeames.
— Gareth (@darkenthememory) July 2, 2015

Source: Gareth/Twitter

Poor Fidelma.

Written by Amy O’Connor and originally published on DailyEdge.ie

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Looks like Senator Fidelma Healy Eames believes that Wi-Fi is pronounced 'wiffy'

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Read: This Irish TV reporter got wee’d on by a lamb and absolutely cracked up