• FAI and team manager ‘apologise for any offence caused’
  • Players singing in dressing room after beating Scotland

The Football Association of Ireland has apologised after a video emerged on social media of Ireland’s women singing a song with a pro-IRA chorus after qualifying for the World Cup on Tuesday.

The clip showed the team celebrating in their Hampden Park dressing room after their 1-0 victory over Scotland, singing “Ooh ah, up the ‘RA” – words associated with support of the Irish Republican Army. It comes from a song, Celtic Symphony by The Wolfe Tones, released in 1987 for the centennial of Celtic football club.

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