Yeah, well in typical ‘murican style, anything from that side of the pond is EU. The differences are too small for me to care to learn the details. All I know is that what ‘muricans call food is not what Europeans call food, and ‘muricans are wrong
Ireland is within the EU and uses the Euro as its currency (unlike when the UK was in the EU and stuck to the Pound Sterling), so you were never wrong.