Leinster Rugby apologises after ‘Up the Ra’ song played at RDS

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  1. This is an absolute disgrace. Heads better roll over this. I will no longer be able to support the IRA if they associate themselves with Leinster rugby.

  2. You know – I think apologising over this song is going too far. I think there should be push back to be honest, people listening / singing it don’t support the IRA.

  3. Despicable not because of how I feel personally about them playing this song, but because of how it makes Ireland appear to people outside the country.

  4. I am sick of Irish people having to apologise for singing Irish songs no one else apologises fuck the soft snowflakes who get offended by everything

  5. Olivers Army is played on Irish radio all the time. I tried to find a clip of the poor girl I saw apologising to Jeremy Paxman about a similar incident.
    I’m sure it is pretty galling to be in the stand supporting your team and this picks up. It is ignorant as sin. I wouldn’t like it, and it would piss me off. You want to sing a nationalist song learn The Wearing of the Green.

  6. Clearly shows the Republic sure as hell ain’t ready for a UI.

    p.s to the people downvoting, can you please give points to suggests otherwise ?

  7. This will go the same as all the other threads. People will come on and explain the impact the IRA had in the 80s and 90s. They will be downvoted to oblivion and called brits/orange men etc etc

    Then the same people who are saying the song is fine and giving out that anyone might be offended will be up in arms next week when someone in another county refers to ireland as part of the British Isles.

  8. I’m a brit who is proud of our forces who helped liberate France from Nazi rule. I do not mind anyone being proud of chucking us out, even though we weren’t the Nazis.

    That said, I don’t sing songs about bomber command when I want a feelgood moment. Even though they did an important job.

    My five pence.

  9. It’s just a song about Celtic football club. I don’t understand why there is such outrage about this song all the time..

  10. Of course they apologized.

    They’re adults and not kids on reddit

    No sky sports interview this time to confuse matters

  11. Don’t see how playing the Celtic Symphony is so bad, it has a few lines that say “Ooh ahh up the RA” and that’s it, it’s a song about a Scottish football club for fuck’s sake

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