Forty-eight national teams qualified for the now-underway FIFA World Cup, soccer’s biggest international tournament, and Ireland wasn’t one of them. That meant T.C. O’Leary’s Irish Pub in Northeast Portland had to adopt another squad.
The chosen one: Ivory Coast.
The reason was obvious enough if you knew how to look at it, pub owner Tom O’Leary said. Rotate Ireland’s tricolor green, white and orange flag 180 degrees, and you get the West African nation’s flag…