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Uefa fine FAI over pro-IRA chants sung by members of women's national team

Uefa say the dressing room chants were a ‘violation of the basic rules of decent conduct.’

EUROPEAN FOOTBALL GOVERNING body Uefa have fined the Football Association of Ireland €20,000 over the pro-IRA chants sung by members of the Irish women’s national team while celebrating their World Cup play-off win against Scotland in October.

Some members of the squad were filmed chanting ‘Ooh Aah, up the Ra’ while singing The Wolfe Tone’s ‘Celtic Symphony’ in celebrating a historic win which earned qualification for the World Cup for the very first time. 

Uefa opened an investigation into the chants citing “potential inappropriate behaviour”, and have today fined the FAI €20,000 for what they deem as a “violation of the basic rules of decent conduct.”

There are no further sporting sanctions. 

A Uefa statement read, “following an investigation conducted by a Uefa Ethics and Disciplinary Inspector regarding the potential inappropriate behaviour by players of the Republic of Ireland Women’s team in the aftermath of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifiers play-off second leg match played against Scotland on 11 October 2022, and the subsequent disciplinary proceedings opened against the Football Association of Ireland, the Uefa Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body has taken the following decision: to fine the Football Association of Ireland €20,000 for the violation of the basic rules of decent conduct.” 

In a statement, the FAI accepted the fine while reiterating their apology for the chants.

“The Football Association of Ireland notes and accepts the sanction by the Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body of Uefa following Uefa’s independent investigation into a potential breach of Uefa’s Disciplinary Regulations.

“The FAI and the Republic of Ireland Women’s National Team has apologised to all affected by events after the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup Qualifying Play-Off against Scotland in Hampden Park in October.

“The FAI has assured Uefa that all players and staff across all of our international teams have been, and will continue to be, reminded of their responsibilities every time they represent their country. The FAI will be making no further comment on this matter.”

Ireland have been drawn against Australia, Canada, and Nigeria in the group phase of the 2023 Women’s World Cup, and they will open the tournament against co-hosts Australia on 20 July next year. 

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:13 AM

    Joke.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:24 AM

    @Shane Power: They just don’t get it do they lad

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:49 AM

    @John Murphy: FFG could easily pay that with rental income this month. They could probably cover it a hundred times over. Just with December’s rental income

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:13 PM

    @Shane Power: and so them should.. proper order

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:00 PM

    @Shane Power: You’re right….. They should have been fined more!!!! & even more still for bringing the Wolfe Tones /Provisional Wolfe Tones/ Real Wolfe Tones on whatever versions that are around now, back into the limelight…..chancers!!!!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 7:52 PM

    @pistachio 32: Mary Lou could ask hutch for the moment along with her other political donations

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    Dec 8th 2022, 9:04 PM

    @Shane Power: ua ua ua

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:15 AM

    Yet if the English fly banners with pictures of the crown forces, nothing would be done.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:27 AM

    @Seán Ó hAodha: and why would it?

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:36 AM

    @Max Bailey: because of all the wars they have start plus the illegal wars they participated in like Iraq their invasions of so many other countries

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:42 AM

    @Max Bailey: the British think they have a monopoly on terrorism – Hypocritical much!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:07 PM

    @Seán Ó hAodha: I have never seen flags like what you describe..being going to soccer games all my life…where did you see the flag ..tell us

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    Dec 8th 2022, 7:20 PM

    @Paul Hussey: I’ve seen plenty of their supporters wearing union jack shorts, no tops and the standard beer belly. How come they are allowed out of their own homes never mind go to a football match.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:15 AM

    Good, pro terrorist chants have no place, especially by people who are supposed to be representing the country

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:17 AM

    @Ciaran: More of a song really than a simple chant, and a pretty catchy one at that

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:20 AM

    @Ciaran: It’s very easy to call them terrorists when you haven’t even grown up in a nationalist community in the north. I’m sure your views would be different.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:23 AM

    @Ciaran: they are not terrorist the are freedom fighters and without them we would still be under british rule

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:26 AM

    @Edward Fitzgerald: regardless of when the song was written, the chant is quite obviously associated with the balaclava-toting terrorists of the troubles. And they were terrorists before yet dispute that. Anyone who blows up a car and kills children is a terrorist.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:28 AM

    @Edward Fitzgerald: b.lls..it

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:51 AM

    @Ciaran: Squad should pay fine out of match fee

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:58 AM

    @Ciaran: it’s not a pro ira song, it’s about graffiti on the wall in Glasgow ffs get a grip. Unionists can sing the billy boys at ni matches and sweet caroline f the pope and nothing done.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:00 PM

    @Max Bailey: does that include loyalists dublin monaghan bombings. What about shooting unarmed catholics really have a selective memory

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:12 PM

    @Mona Murphy: I never said there weren’t terrorists on both sides. I just said that phrase glorifies the IRA terrorists of the troubles. If the England team were stupid enough to sing a song about loyalist terrorists then I’d expect them to be fined as well.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:54 PM

    @Max Bailey: Gazza was fined £40,000 by the Scottish Football Association where he infamously mimicked a flute player in a loyalist band during an Old Firm match in 1998.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:09 PM

    @Mona Murphy: It was the TEAM that sang it!!!!!! The team represents the country not the supporters!!!! If the Rangers team or Scottish team were filmed singing racist or sectarian songs, they would be fined too!!! The graffiti on the wall supports the “Ra”….. Ye just don’t get it!!!!! Ffs, get a grip yourself!!!!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:56 PM

    @Edward Fitzgerald: I assume you’re being ironic.
    We were free of British rule a long time before the current IRA was set up.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 2:00 PM

    @Max Bailey: Will we reverse the 100 year partial independence then based on your logic.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 2:01 PM

    @Mona Murphy: No, it’s about a team representing a country who’s organisation fall under the rules of FIFA singing a provocative political song. I have all the love in the world for Irish liberators but in the end had i been born somewhere else with different ideology being drummed into my young mind I’d have a different opinion. There is no place in sport for political and historic hatred. The team in their euphoria made an error. They need to own it.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 2:03 PM

    @Max Bailey: rule Britannia praises 100’s of years of British colonialism, which included genocide by starvation, slavery and countless millions of deaths. Where is the EFA fines as that song regularly sang by their team and supporters

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    Dec 8th 2022, 3:41 PM

    @Ciaran: crawl back under your stone

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    Dec 8th 2022, 4:07 PM

    @Jerriko17: what about all the teams that wear the poppy, and never a word of a fine?

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    Dec 8th 2022, 6:23 PM

    @Max Bailey: what about the black and tans

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    Dec 8th 2022, 7:09 PM

    @Johnny Kelly: you have a urkainian flag as your bio. And slating of Edward. Ireland = urkraine
    Russia = Britain. You virtue signalling fo#l.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 8:42 PM

    @Max Bailey: I agree that anyone that’s blows up a car, bus, house etc… is a terrorist. That’s includes these https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/9/uk-army-killed-64-children-in-afghanistan-between-2006-14-report

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    Dec 8th 2022, 9:06 PM

    @Ciaran: freedom fighters

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    @Seán Ó hAodha: super freedom fighters

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:14 AM

    Let’s start a go fund me to cover the fine, have it raised in an evening.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:24 AM

    @Daniel Murray: na the FAI have enough in the slush fund to cover it, a few if the higher ups will be getting one less bottle of expensive whiskey this Christmas

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:24 AM

    @Daniel Murray: yeah a go fund me for the fai. Good grief.

    Let john delaney pay it.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:42 AM

    @Daniel Murray: let the people bail out the Fai , are ya having a laugh?

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:41 PM

    @Denis Cremin: tax payer has bailed the fai out a few times already.they hardly need another bailout.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 4:08 PM

    @Daniel Murray: *facepalm* people thinking I’m serious but missing the actual point.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 5:00 PM

    @Morgan Crowe: too true aswell

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:16 AM

    Absolute joke . It’s made how uefa can remain silent on so many things but fine the FAI for this. Soft touches we are.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:21 PM

    @Sean Partidge: Agree what’s the problem it’s a Celtic FC song sung by their fans especially at home games.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:17 AM

    Absolute joke

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:39 AM

    Fairplay UEFA i stand behind your decision 100%

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:17 AM

    yep a joke in my opinion I think fifa should be sorting out there own shop with the corruption that’s still there than fining the ifa because a few young girls got carried away in dressing room

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:38 AM

    @Tim Herlihy: em, it was UEFA, not FIFA who issued the fine, and the fine was against the FAI not the IFA.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 2:12 PM

    @D. Memery: flip I should concentrate a bit better when writing sorry there

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:15 AM

    Can we jst set up a go fund me? Or take from the Henry fund….its a song for god sake, and part of our history weather we want to admit that part oflr not… to many cribbing about it with nothing better to do.and the media forced this action.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:14 AM

    Absolutely ridiculous.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:13 AM

    Just wait for the world cup next year

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:19 AM

    @Ísla Carabine: In fairness you don’t hear anything but ‘Fields of Athenry’ or ‘COYBIG’ at a packed out mens home international so I can’t imagine a women’s world cup on the other side of the world will have too much of an Old Firm derby to it

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:19 AM

    Tell them to stick their fines where the sun dont shine refuse to pay point blank

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:12 PM

    @Edward Fitzgerald: Why…… The team, manager, FAI and all sensible people realised and admitted it was wrong

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    Dec 8th 2022, 6:26 PM

    @Jerriko17: The team manager didn’t know anything about the song

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:23 PM

    @Peter Murphy: She knew it was totally wrong to sing it and she apologised for her team….. And, I’d say she (rightly so) gave them a bollocking behind closed doors to have put her in that situation when all talk should have been on their fantastic achievement. Just when all she and the team worked for was put in jeopardy, they go and screw it up !!!!!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:23 AM

    basic rules of decent conduct don’t apply on 12th of July……just asking….a joke but that’s uefa and fifa in a nutshell

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:16 PM

    @PW: And who would you fine for the 12th or Paddy’s Day for that matter!!!!…… & 2 wrongs never make a right!!!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:57 PM

    @PW: what have those bodies got to do with the 12th of July?

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:20 AM

    They have little to be doing if that’s all their worried about it’s a sad day when you have to start watching what songs you sing especially when you don’t plan in advance to sing it it’s not like they woke up in the morning and decided if we win today we’ll sing up the ra

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:17 PM

    @Moya Power-kelly: They won’t be singing it any more!!!!!!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:54 PM

    That’s fair.
    A small enough fine, but setting down a notice that racist or hate chants won’t be tolerated.
    Let’s hope lessons have been learned, not just in the team but within the wider society.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:20 AM

    They should have been banned from competing in the world cup the fine is only a slap on the wrist

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:23 AM

    @Noel Donohue: it’s a pity the journal have removed the dislike tick.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:24 AM

    @Noel Donohue: Brit or West Brit?

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:24 AM

    @Noel Donohue: get a life would you if it was the lads we wouldn’t be having any of this this just jealous the girls did what our lads couldn’t

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:36 AM

    @Noel Donohue: I beleive you are having a windup here

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:40 AM

    @Noel Donohue: in that case French national Anthem is about an up rising should they be banned.
    What about Qatar and all the dead workers that ok with you. Banning a team for singing a football song.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:44 AM

    @Michael Anthony: if we want a United Ireland how do we expect people in the North to be willing to join if the National Team are singing songs about a group that killed over 600 innocent civilians? Don’t give me the whataboutism of the Crown too. We all know.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:58 AM

    @Michael Anthony: do you know soccer players back in the past playing the foreign game were called West brits or orange Irish men..now the term.is used against anyone who doesn’t agree with what you think ……Will the ladies sing it again ..??

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:24 PM

    @Michael Anthony: The famous Irish clan…. “The Anthonys”!!!!!! Whereas Donoghue is a real Irish name!!!!!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 6:27 PM

    @Noel Donohue:

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    Dec 8th 2022, 7:17 PM

    @Jerriko17: angel Michael and saint Anthony .
    If all you were around in 1916 or during british occupation. We would have been wiped out. Before 1922 good. After 1922 bad. Free our irish sisters & brothers from apartheid. Free the 6 counties. Ya little beta fairy.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:32 PM

    @Michael Anthony: Angel Michael was from heaven???? St Anthony from Italy???? & the patron Saint of “lost things”….. Maybe you should say a few prayers to him to find out where your mind went!!!!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:48 PM

    Used to be Ooh, ah, Paul Mcgrath! The worthy one, why change it!

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    Dec 8th 2022, 2:54 PM

    Yet James McClean gets abused every week and nothing is done.

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    Dec 8th 2022, 12:11 PM

    Love to know who’s pocket the €20k will be moved to

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    Dec 8th 2022, 1:25 PM

    I wonder if the Irish national anthem will be on the banned list as it is an original rebel song? Then again most non gaelic speakers haven’t a clue what the words mean.

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    Mute Peter Beegan
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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:18 AM

    Ah ya, that’ll pay for one of the corrupt fu#k3rz trips to the World Cup Final… Spoofers the lot

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    Mute Brendan O'Neill
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    Dec 8th 2022, 11:41 AM

    Hypocrites’ the level of stroke’s this crowd has pulled is palpable

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    Mute Patricia Ellis Dunne
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    Dec 8th 2022, 3:50 PM

    It’s grand for FIFA to have the World Cup in Qatar, indirectly causing thousands of deaths and ignoring human rights abuses, but UEFA gets its knickers in a twist over a chant

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    Dec 8th 2022, 3:53 PM

    I’m not very comfortable with the Irish women’s team singing that particular song, because of the the people in both Ireland and Britain that it will offend. However it is no more offensive than “Rule Britannia”.

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    Mute Gavin Mckenna
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    Dec 8th 2022, 2:00 PM

    As expected, it was always gonna happen with the mad hype whipped up. Gas, seeing so many of the serial posters here acting all shocked and outraged.

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    Mute Brian Molloy
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    Dec 8th 2022, 5:24 PM

    Pure nonsense,is there any Irish person that never sang songs written by the Wolfe tones

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    Mute Dónal Ó Keeffe
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    Dec 8th 2022, 7:31 PM

    That fine was Worth every single penny. Not too many times you can say that.FIFA are concerned about human decency but wouldn’t allow armband protests on human rights in Iran at the World Cup. What a joke. Now, how much for “rule Britannia”. I would think that upset a lot more people in its time.

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    Mute Gerry Keating
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    Dec 8th 2022, 7:26 PM

    F u Uefa. Thats a joke. PC world is going to get worse and worse if we let it!!

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    Mute Frank O'Reilly
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    Dec 9th 2022, 9:45 AM

    Anyone who took part in this appalling chant should be banned from playing for Ireland in future. They are an embarrassment to the country.

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    Dec 9th 2022, 2:38 PM

    @Frank O’Reilly: bit of an overreaction Frank

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