{"id":395093,"date":"2022-12-08T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395093"},"modified":"2022-12-08T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:25:23","slug":"uefa-fines-irish-fa-after-womens-team-sing-pro-ira-chant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/uefa-fines-irish-fa-after-womens-team-sing-pro-ira-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA fines Irish FA after women&#8217;s team sing pro-IRA chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European governing\u00a0body\u00a0UEFA has fined the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) \u20ac20,000 ($21.032) for \u201cthe violation of the basic rules of decent conduct\u201d, the UEFA said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The FAI has been fined 20,000 euros by Uefa over the Republic of Ireland women&#39;s team singing a pro-IRA chant after their World Cup play-off win over Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2935\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC SPORT NI (@BBCSPORTNI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSPORTNI\/status\/1600817984720834560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">After reaching their first ever World Cup by beating Scotland in a playoff in October, a video of the Republic of Ireland women\u2019s team singing a pro-IRA (the Irish Republican Army) chant in their dressing room went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cOoh ah, up the \u2018Ra\u201d is the chorus from Celtic Symphony, a song written by the Wolfe Tones\u2019 Brian Warfield in 1987 to celebrate the centenary of the Scottish club Celtic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">The FAI has reacted quickly and released a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cThe FAI and the Republic of Ireland women\u2019s national team has apologized to all affected by events after the 2023 Fifa women\u2019s World Cup qualifying play-off against Scotland in Hampden Park in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European governing\u00a0body\u00a0UEFA has fined the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) \u20ac20,000 ($21.032) for \u201cthe violation of the basic rules of decent conduct\u201d, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The FAI apologized in a statement","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395093"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395093"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}