It will forever be remembered as the ‘Hand of Henry’ goal and the angry reaction of everyone in the Irish camp was fully understandable.
The anger was aimed more at the referee than Thierry Henry himself after his hand ball assist sent the Republic crashing out of the World Cup.
Robbie Keane's goal had earlier cancelled out Nicolas Anelka's first leg strike to take Wednesday night's tie at the Stade de France in Paris into extra time.
Then came the William Gallas ‘goal’ that broke Irish hearts. St Ledger told Sky Sports News: "We got robbed, you can tell by the boys' reaction it hit his hand blatantly.
"We feel cheated - we were the better team over the two legs, every football fan in the stadium will say we were the better team tonight.
"It's cost a lot of us our dreams - as a boy I used to dream of playing in the World Cup, and now I'm not."
St Ledger also called for video technology to be introduced to prevent such controversies and travesties in the future. "I don't understand why we haven't got replays in this day and age," he continued.
"You can get replays within 10, 30 seconds and it would have helped today."
St Ledger didn’t blame Henry, who admitted he did handle the ball, but not on purpose. He added: "He's said it hit his hand accidentally but if you look at it, you can clearly see it hits his hand twice.
"I'm not sure his reputation has been tarnished - it doesn't look great but he's got his team to the World Cup finals. If it had been one of our team, we'd have probably done the same. The blame doesn't necessarily fall on him but he's handled it, everyone can see it around the world."
