Irish Women’s Team singing pro IRA chant

So an Irish team sang and Irish rebel song? Don't see why they cannot, they can sing what they like concerning their country, is it any different to the GSTQ and it's verses which most Scottish are refusing to use for years becasue there is a verse about crushing them.

Now if an English team was suddenly singing ooh ahh up the RA then maybe that would be an issue, but the Irish can do what they like in their own country.

Also a lot of these rebel songs are about the pre troubles IRA and tbf can be heard still played in irish clubs nationwide, and were prevelent in Leves plethera of Irish bars till the mid 90s
 
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urban genie said:
So an Irish team sang and Irish rebel song? Don't see why they cannot, they can sing what they like concerning their country, is it any different to the GSTQ and it's verses which most Scottish are refusing to use for years becasue there is a verse about crushing them.

Now if an English team was suddenly singing ooh ahh up the RA then maybe that would be an issue, but the Irish can do what they like in their own country.

Also a lot of these rebel songs are about the pre troubles IRA and tbf can be heard still played in irish clubs nationwide, and were prevelent in Leves plethera of Irish bars till the mid 90s
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I can probably get a CD of them from Amazon, but Uefa have to keep the loot flowing into the coffers and no matter what level of euphoria obtains at the end of a game it behoves teams to simply shut off the celebrations until the Uefa geezer has gone home, and to desist from filming content in the changing room and uploading for the world and his wife to criticise.
 
Surprised at the attitude to this on here, a lot of common sense being talked.
I live in NI and there’s uproar from a lot of people about it, really it’s been blown out of all proportion

Saw an online newspaper article from 3 years ago where the headline was about the Leinster rugby team singing the same song on the way back from a match in Scotland
That’s all it was, no criticism of them just something like Leinster rugby players celebrate with the Celtic symphony on plane home.
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
Discussing this at work.

After qualifying for the world cup, they recorded themselves singing an IRA song in the dressing room and uploaded it to Youtube (of course)

I feel some of them are too young to know about the troubles but they surely know the history of it?

Young women having fun with no intentions of offending anyone is my guess but there are thousands of family’s affected from what the IRA have done

Are the media going over the top?

Thoughts?
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Many protestants in the North would rather die than sign up to a united Ireland. Yet people in the republic wonder why this is so.
“No surrender” oops lol.
 
BillCarlisle said:
I'm not condoning this at all - the IRA has always been a terrorist organisation and one which was outlawed by the Irish Government. To put a bit of balance on the matter though, the words to Flower of Scotland very much point to it having rebel connotations. Yet it's generally accepted as a Scottish 'national anthem' in Football, Rugby, Athletics etc.
With due respect to those who have suffered at the hands of terrorists, the Irish girls singing a rebel song in a moment of adrenalin seems to me to be a lot of a fuss about not a lot. There are a lot more important things going on in the world right now. They've apologised, and there it should end.
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Firstly, I don’t condone violence of any kind by anyone so I have no love for men with guns on any side of a situation, but to call the IRA terrorists is to support the propaganda of a military occupation.
Have you not ever noticed that the IRA is actually Irish and that it’s purpose has been to fight against a foreign country engaged in a military occupation?
Irish people fighting against Britain’s occupation of a large part of their country are no different to the people of France when fighting the German occupation, the people of South Africa who fought to end apartheid rule (rule by invaders) or the people of the Ukraine doing all that they can to dislodge Russia.
People fighting to dislodge invaders are plainly freedom fighters not terrorists regardless of how the British media has painted it down the years.

I repeat that I don’t condone violence for any cause but let’s not fall for the propaganda of occupying nations by calling those people defending their own countries ‘terrorists’ for seeking to reestablish their own borders.
 
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How many times have Linfield been videoed singing ‘Fcuk the Pope and the IRA’ to the tune of simply the best? No problem with the f the IRA part but insensitive mentioning the pope.

Sky are actually the Irish woman’s teams main sponsor so I can understand why they’d be on top of it but it’s all a hullabelue over nothing. Far more important things going on in the world.
 
Postman Pep said:
Tbh I admire this girls restraint having to engage in a damage limitation exercise with this patronising ****.


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Fucking hell...... being interviewed by an English journo asking for an apology and if the team are embarrassed - and following up with the question "is there a need for education"
Delighted to see her rebuke that suggestion... the fucking education needs to be given to the "No Surrender" brigade that infest parts of the British game....
 
levets said:
They were singing ‘The Celtic Symphony’ which has the chorus ‘Ooh ahh, up the RA’…
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Which is quite a popular song both here and in Scotland and they meant zero offence by it. Btw I'm totally anti-IRA.

Edit: the lad in the flat above is playing it right now at 8:42am.
 
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