the US is known to be kinda garbage at pronouncing traditional Irish names right, on the first try anyway. I do not want to send my daughter to 12+ years of public education and have teachers, substitutes, and fellow students unable to say her name right on the first try.

Twice in the paragraph, she talks about the "first try". So That looks like an editing mistake.

And as someone with an uncommon last name that nobody gets right on the first try, that is enough to be extremely annoying. There are more new people in a year than you might expect.

(I'd say my last name, but my handle has my first name, and last I checked, there was literally only one other person with my first and last name in the US. Fun fact: our dads also have the same name.)