The argument is specious and fundamentally without any basis. It would only be 'definitively' an Irish name if a) We knew for a fact that Ireland still existed as a language and not just as a cultural memory and b) we knew that Aisling, or her parents, recognised the name as being Irish and chose to use the Irish pronunciation. We don't know either of these things so nobody outside of FD can state exactly what the 'correct' pronunciation is.
And for the record, as the entire game (on my screen) is written in British English, I'll very happily continue to use British English pronunciation queues and themes.
Considering gaelic names have and continue to be used by english speakers with their correct pronunciations for thousands of years now, I doubt that by 3300 we'll have seen their proper usage completely vanish, particuarly when the space faring age of Elite Dangerous is relatively recent. You also have to take into account that the Empire is a particularly tradition orientated culture, and as such it would seem likely that they have a fair amount of consideration for the 'correct' pronunciation of traditional names.
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