Image: Daily Star Publish Controversial Headline Covering Ireland’s Roma Story

The Daily Star has come under fire after they published a controversial headline which seemed to suggest that Madeleine McCann had been found in Ireland. This week, a seven-year-old girl was taken from her home and put into HSE care, following a Garda operation. The girl had blonde hair and blue eyes and was removed from the family on Monday. This was The Star’s headline: This is the second time in a week that The Star has used “Maddie” in their headlines, also covering the discovery of a girl in a camp in Greece: One of the lines in the online article included: “POLICE yesterday found a blue-eyed “Irish Maddie” at the home of a Roma gypsy family." DNA tests are currently being carried out to establish the identity of the young girl in Ireland. The family maintain that the girl is their daughter.