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Post-match celebration lands team in hot water - CtrlF.XYZ

Post-match celebration lands team in hot water

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The manager of Ireland's women's shot squad apologised aft her players sang a pro-IRA chant successful the locker country aft qualifying for the World Cup for the archetypal time.

Video footage of the chant circulated connected societal media aft the 1-0 triumph implicit Scotland successful the playoffs astatine Hampden Park.

Ireland manager Vera Pauw apologised "from the bottommost of our hearts to anyone who has been offended by the contented of the post-match celebrations."

"We volition reappraisal this with the players and punctual them of their responsibilities successful this regard," Pauw said. "I person spoken with players this greeting and we are atrocious collectively for immoderate wounded caused, determination tin beryllium nary excuse for that."

The Football Association of Ireland besides issued an apology "for immoderate discourtesy caused by a opus sung by players."

Support for the IRA, oregon Irish Republican Army, remains arguable amid efforts to heal the wounds near by decades of sectarian unit known arsenic "The Troubles."

While immoderate spot the IRA arsenic state fighters successful the run to reunify Ireland, others decry its relation successful attacks that killed astir 1,800 radical arsenic militants sought to extremity British regularisation successful Northern Ireland. Most militants renounced unit aft the 1998 statement that brought bid to the island, but occasional bombings and shootings are inactive attributed to IRA dissidents.

The Daily Mirror's Northern Ireland editor, Alistair Bushe, tweeted: "Genuinely stunned that a shot squad would observe their archetypal ever World Cup qualification by glorifying a violent organisation."

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