Campaign team mistakes Belfast City Hall for Berlin Reichstag

The campaign team of the Irish presidential candidate Heather Humphreys has mistaken the Reichstag in Germany for Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland.

The former Irish government minister visited Belfast at the beginning of this week as part of her campaign.

Following the visit, a video was uploaded to her social media accounts showing an image of the Reichstag building, the seat of the German parliament in Berlin instead of an image of Belfast City Hall.

The video has now been deleted and replaced with a video containing the correct image.

Humphreys, who comes from the Protestant community in the border county of Monaghan, has recently been emphasising her knowledge of Northern Ireland by stating that she does not only travel there “on day trips”.

She is representing Fine Gael in the presidential election, and the party has said: “A mistake was made in production and has been rectified. Where issues are brought to our attention, we seek to address them quickly.”

Humphreys is one of only two remaining candidates in the election after Jim Gavin, who was representing the lead coalition government party Fianna Fáil, withdrew following a controversy about money he failed to pay back to a former tenant.

The election will be held on 24th October.