"The name EIRE has British Colonial hints to it in some groups."
Oh please. Come into the 21st century. Google "Eire" and you get 726,000 hits - and the first pages I saw were all businesses & individuals based in Ireland.
Fly over the Blasket Islands off the SW coast and see the rock arrangment put in place many moons ago - a big arrow pointing east and the word EIRE.
And - what really gets my goat about your pronouncement - I'm an Irish citzen with an Irish passport on the cover of which is the word EIRE. Issued in Dublin.
Saoranach d'Eirinn.