Jesus
*@DownNative* I've rarely seen so much wrong as everything you've said in your "patiently explaining why Irish people are wrong and you alone have the correct knowledge" manner.
"The name of the State is Éire, or in the English language, Ireland".. doesn't mean "the name of the state is Éire and it's ok to say that if you don't speak English". It's phrased that way around because it's a translation of the law and the Irish language version has supremacy. That means a less literal translation (if it was written with the English language as primary) would say "The name of the State is Ireland and in the Irish language, Éire."
And this is just outrageous:
Using "Ireland" for the southern state was always meant to confuse outsiders, to promote a united Ireland and to act as though the island itself isn't divided into two separate, distinct parts.
It was never "meant to confuse outsiders". That's not how countries select their own names. Ireland has always been Ireland, and the fact of invasion, plantation and occupation didn't change that. It had a name and a national identity of irishness long before Elizabeth I and the plantation of Ulster. Why should a country which has finally reclaimed its independence have to change its own name because partition was the price of home rule? Ireland is no less Ireland just because it had to surrender six counties.
If you take a chunk of Wales in the east and give it over to administration by the government in England, should the rest of Wales lose the right to be called "Wales", so nobody gets confused between Wales and the English county of East Wales?