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The Irish womens team singing 'Up the Ra'

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭StrawbsM


    She’s the captain and being the spokeswoman for the team is part of her duties. She was calm and composed. Putting the reserve goalkeeper in front of the cameras may have been a very bad idea.

    The manager told us that some of the team had been crying about it. I’m a woman and we are an emotional species. It’s not worth pretending we’re not. But that’s not the image the women’s team should be portraying. They’re strong and fearless on the pitch and that’s how we should think of them off pitch too.



  • Subscribers Posts: 42,001 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Nothing at all to apologize for, if anything I like that team even more for showing a bit of national pride.

    We need more James McClean types in Ireland and less Kevin Myers types.

    Up the Ra



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,961 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Has to go down as one the most odd/random things to do. Female soccer players, all very young, qualify for a WC, and are jumping around a dressing room singing up the RA? Wtf..where did this come from..

    what was wrong with Ooh ah, Paul McGrath!



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    The song itself is awful it's just the line Up the Ra that's not really that harmless


    If the Iraq ladies team qualified and start singing songs with Up Isis in it , that would be frowned upon aswel .


    Nobody is saying they are bad people etc it was just ill-judged .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Field east


    “——— we would all have been pro IRA ————“ !!!!!!!!!!????????



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,961 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Spot on. It’s 2022 and we have an Irish ladies soccer team chanting up the RA on British soil after winning a soccer match. Weird!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,233 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Im at the stage of my life that when I hear anyone chanting "up the ra" I just roll my eyes and silently pass judgement on those singing it that they are a bit dim. The team made a huge error in judgement and have given the English and Irish media an excuse to overshadow what was a massive achievement for our little country.



  • Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Suvarnabhumi


    This is exactly what I thought. I was expecting to see all the latest Tick Tock trends coming out of the dressing room, you know all those silly dances etc. The last thing I was expecting from a bunch of late teens/early 20s girls was the Wolf Tones. Strange.....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    It was a great result for women's sport. Roll on the world cup.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    SAAAAAAM Missiles in the sky

    Tiocfaidh ár lá!

    Sing up the Ra!

    Ooh ah up the Ra, Ooh ah up the Ra!



  • Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This kind of thing sets a united Ireland back many years. Imagine the swing voters in NI watching this - of which there are many and growing - who want to put this crap behind them.

    Very poor judgement.

    That being said, a great performance and victory.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    The economic impact of this in an inflationary period needs to be looked at as well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,143 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Well in that case we will have to stop singing the Fields of Athenry which is a protest song regarding against the occupation of Ireland by Britain, how Britain felt that Ireland deserved its mass genocide of people and transporting them to Australia in prison ships for stealing bread to feed their families.

    The lyrics say Michael’s crime is that he "stole Trevelyan's corn" – a reference to Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, a senior British civil servant at Dublin Castle who infamously said: "The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson”.

    Scratch it off the list.

    How about Tommy Makems song 4 green fields depicting the 4 provinces and how one of them in bondage but would be returned through violence.

    is Nation Once Again Banned.

    How about the Galtee mountain boy. Gone.

    Viva La Quinta Brigada - throw that in the bin.

    how about joe McDonnell. Young man interned without any crime committed or any trial. Went on Hunger Strike.

    Sure why not whitewash our history so not one mention of a volunteer from 1916, 1921/ 22 exists. But the poppy is still allowed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,233 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Do any of those songs make explicit reference to praising a terrorist group? Thats the crux of the issue.



  • Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭slay55


    I never said I took offence. Why would people know living in Britain about the uvf ? How about the terrorist attacks by the IRA in the 70s to 90s on mainland Britain.


    people sang about the loyalist paramilitaries in the U.K.


    as I say it’s all just harmless fun, the girls were just having fun and people singing about the uvf are just having fun too



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    No, those imaginary scenarios you described are actually just all in your head.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭eggy81




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    It's kind of funny that a lot of the reaction online has been 'oh I'll never watch them again', from people who never watched them in the first place.

    Anyway I look forward to the Sky Sports witch-hunt now at those wearing the poppy, those singing Rule Britannia at stadiums all over their country, Declan Rice for once commenting Up the Ra on Insta, Rangers fans singing No Surrender / King Billy, Scottish fans booing national anthems, I could go on. Are all rebel songs cancelled now? Or just the ones middle Ireland find uncomfortable?

    I did get a small laugh though. The reaction online was fairly mixed until the Sky presenter went and put his foot in it with his aggressive interview; a good chunk seems to have turned back on them and their snivelling reaction.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,197 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    songs with up isis in it

    How about the Mahdi army, or Badr organization...? Or any of a few dozen other anti ISIS militias?

    Since the 2014 collapse of the Iraqi army in the North of Iraq against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and the fatwa by the Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani calling for jihad or popular mobilization against ISIL, militias have become even more prominent in Iraq

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_militias_in_Iraq



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,234 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Republic of Ireland team sings republican songs ***Shocked***



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Irony, mourning the victims of the Creeslough gas explosion one week, then singing Up the RA the next. The football girls really need to be reminded and educated as to what an IRA semtex explosion can do, vis a vis a gas explosion!

    They both result in massive loss of life with bits of people ejected far and wide. Singing up the RA is stupid, ignorant and really silly, (specially in the aftermath of Creeslough).

    Great result on the pitch, amazing result with my wife in tears as the whistle blew, the celebrations began and the reality sank in "Were in the World Cup), then the dressing room news leaks out :-(

    Oh dear.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,573 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,130 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Bloody Fenian Bitches!

    I won't be watching them in the World Cup anyway, nothing to with the song, it's on in Oz and will be shown at crazy times.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭Did you smash it


    The English don’t seem to really care, a one day story.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭StrawbsM


    Well my girls are in Oz and will be going. The draw is in 8 days, I think. They’ll need the jerseys now so that’s xmas presents sorted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,130 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Do you think the girls who sang the song support the IRA?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,919 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    What annoys me more than the women singing up the RA are the West Brit types on here with their faux outrage for the atrocities commited by the IRA. They never once use the context of the war in the North and the civil and murderous actions of the British Government. The RA werent just fighting for the craic like.

    The girls let themselves down without a doubt. They have tarnished their achievement. But the hand wringing and paint the IRA as the bogeyman while letting the british government and loyalists away scott free is West Brit Leinster Rugby territory.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭lmao10


    Usually any time you hear someone saying "woke", it's usually not worth reading/listening to. Some self righteous lout rambling on about "snowflakes" and thinking they are on par with Einstein intellectually while the rest of the world are "woke" and stupid.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    Rebel songs are part of irish history and culture. If you're repulsed or shocked by them then don't read an Irish history book.

    Seriously no wonder it took 800 years to get rid of the Brits from 26 counties. The quality of Irish men and women is shocking if this thread is any sort of representation.

    Same twats condemning this are probably Slava Ukraine on every platform without a hint of irony.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,143 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Do you know moronic all this storm in a teacup is? Not one mention has been made about our National Anthem which we all proudly sing. Every single sports team all around the world (well apart from our rugby team.

    Is there faux offence of that song which is about a group of volunteers that became the Irish Republican Army. If only sky sports new that we bellow out ‘our fathers fought before ‘ Ireland is a fighting race’ or indeed the very pertinent line ‘we chant the soldiers song’ basically long hand for Up the Ra.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    People support their own, I find it deeply distasteful to see players in England wearing the poppy.

    Their Fans singing their military songs, of course I do.


    That's life though, people instinctively celebrate their side.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Running down your country or its forces is seriously woke.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Scoundrel


    If one was to go on twitter and look at the people complaining about this it is a whos who of centrist melts, loinster rugby dads and NATO fanatics.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,066 ✭✭✭HerrKuehn


    Can the IRA and British government actions not both be wrong? Blowing up civilians is not a great way to campaign for civil rights really. Given the ongoing division in the north, it is clear it was a failed strategy. It is time for people to move beyond the past and start looking to the future. Singing songs like that is really no difference to fleggers in the north burning Irish flags on their bonfires, like two cheeks of an unwiped arse.

    West Brit Leinster types, FFS. The average Irish "patriot" wouldn't scratch their hole for the country and by that I mean do something positive. It is just mindless flag waving.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭mattser


    I'll be rooting for the opposition from now on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Danzy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,130 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Singing songs like that is really no difference to fleggers in the north burning Irish flags on their bonfires

    So if the girls danced around a burning Union Jack that would be the same thing?

    You sure? 😕



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    I'd say most of them just got caught up in the moment but whoever put it on likely does support the IRA



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    I watched the game and was wholeheartedly supporting them. I shan’t be following them any more



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,233 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Such utter scutter and whatabouttery. If it was the English or NI ladies team singing up the UDA or UVF it would be looked on with the same level of distaste. Im not a west brit and I despise rugby as a sport. Tell me, what would these Irish women, most likely all born in the Republic and many born post the GFA know about the troubles? For all the fighting "da ra" did, they were and are also actively involved in multiple criminal activities, never mind the murders of countless innocent people including children that had zero to do with the actions of the british government or loyalist paramilitaries'. During the summer videos of orange men singing distasteful crap were released and they were rightly vilified for it. Conor McMenamin was also lambasted for his similar guff a while back too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,194 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    The only good thing to come from it. The North is a shambles.

    The team are an international embarrassment though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,130 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    So the young lady who put it on is an active supporter of the IRA?

    In all likely hood?

    No other explanation?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭Boardnashea


    They were silly to be singing it. They were stupid to be singing it while being recorded.

    Have your 15 minutes of public celebration, but when you're in the dressing room, as Joseywhales says above, "We have no business knowing what happens in a dressing room, it's supposed to be a private safe area for a team."

    The youngest and the oldest and everyone inbetween should know when to put the phones away!



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,066 ✭✭✭HerrKuehn


    I would say random scum burning flags at a bonfire is not as bad the girls who are representing their country on the international stage.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,888 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    If this is what sets a United Ireland back many years we are all doomed.


    Anyway, they did something stupid (on many levels) then came out and apologiesed. I am not sure what else people want them to do.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,682 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    If you're ok with this, then you should equally be ok with people singing loyalist songs when celebrating.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭Did you smash it


    If you go on Twitter the people defending it are the same ones who’d lose their fcuking minds if the lionesses sang No surrender after they won the euros.


    I couldn’t care who sings what, If an UKer called me a Fenian I would just laugh, it’s the hypocrisy that I find wearying.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,130 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    So the girls are worse than random scum?

    Fúcking hell KAREN!!! 😂



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