Heather Humphreys was forced to delete and re-edit a campaign video about a ‘day in Belfast’ after her campaign mistakenly included an image of Germany instead.

The Fine Gael Presidential candidate posted the video to her social media accounts in an attempt to showcase her links to the North.

However, the original video showed the Bundestag in Berlin with a German flag waving atop the building, instead of Belfast City Hall.

Humphreys showcased the Reichstag building, the seat of the German Parliament. Pic: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Humphreys made the trip to visit Ulster University and a number of other venues, including St Dominic’s School on the Falls Road, which counts Mary McAleese as a former student. 

The video was captioned: ‘I will be a President for All. Thank you to St Dominic’s for the invitation to visit the school of our former President, Mary McAleese on the Falls Road and to all of the local community groups and students I met in Queen’s University and @StudyAtUlster. A lovely day in Belfast.’

The mistake comes just three days after the candidate insisted she had a ‘unique understanding’ of the North and doesn’t ‘just go on day trips’ there.

The video was meant to show Belfast City Hall. Pic: Ahmet Gurhan Kartal/Anadolu via Getty Images

Unsurprisingly, social media has eaten up the error and jokes have been made in abundance online.

One user wrote: ‘Easy to confuse both cities, they each begin with the letter B. Honest mistake.’

Another commented: ‘To FG a president for the Four Provinces means Leinster, Munster, Connacht and East Germany apparently!’

A third added: ‘Some of these social media interns are in dire need of further training.’

Humphreys now only has one candidate campaigning against her, Catherine Connolly, since Jim Gavin withdrew his campaign on Sunday night.

With only the pair of them campaigning, it is the first time in more than 20 years that the options have been so few.

In 2004, after serving her first term of seven years, Mary McAleese was re-elected uncontested for a second seven-year term.

The Belfast native ran for the first time in 1997 and went up against four other candidates, including Dana.

The Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats representative received 45% of the first-preference votes when she was elected for her first term.

Prior to 2004, there were three consecutive instances where there was a sole candidate — 1974, Fianna Fáil’s Cearbhall Ó’Dálaigh was elected unopposed; 1976, Patrick Hillery was elected unopposed following the retirement of Ó’Dállaigh, and in 1983, Patrick Hillery was re-elected for a second term.

The first time the Presidential Election was a two-horse race was in 1959 when Éamon de Valera, Fianna Fáil, defeated Fine Gael’s Seán Mac Eoin.

In 1966, de Valera defeated Fine Gael’s Tom O’Higgins, while in 1973, Fianna Fáil candidate Erskin H.Childers defeated the same Fine Gael candidate.

Another instance where there was only one candidate was in 1952 when Seán T. O’Kelly was re-elected uncontested.

The last Presidential Election, which took place in 2018 saw Michael D Higgins retain his position uncontested.

2011 saw the most Presidential candidates with seven officially nominated. Michael D Higgins was elected for his first time but went up against the likes of Dana, Seán Gallagher as well as David Norris and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.