Comments on: Groundhog day at Celtic Park.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:04:43 +0000

It is not a devolved “assembly” in Edinburgh, it is a Parliament. Thank you for respecting Scotland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament

By: Frank Devine

Frank Devine — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:34:43 +0000

If ‘The Famine Song’ stops please be assured that the Rangers support will find another anti-Irish catholic chant or song to take its place. Anyone at a Celtic V Rangers match at CP listens to pure sectarian hatred from the Rangers support, stuck in the right hand corner of CP (from the main stand), for the entire game. Following the match God forbid that you happen to be in a pub that they attack (usually on the fringes of the Calton and The Gallowgate). And usually a bar where the clientele will be older Celtic supporters and not one crowded with young militant fans who would confront them. That is the way they are and that is the primary reason why (in my view), there is always far more trouble following a Celtic victory.

Of course, we have bums in our support, but the levels of viciousness displayed by the lumpen element amongst the Rangers support is far worse. It explains why you would never walk through Bridgeton X after any Celtic game. I did once, about 15 years ago, and following the throat slitting episode of Mark Scott. Police everywhere but never again. You could sense the hatred directed towards Celtic fans by neds and bums standing outside pubs.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:49:33 +0000

I cant agree more with the above comments, the singing of the Famine Song should be banned and penalties imposed on individuals caught doing so. I think you are forgetting that Celtic fans are also guilty of sectarian singing, and we should not simply look to blame the other side. Our PR and deflection tactics are far better than Rangers and thus they receive far worse criticism in the press but lets not forget that we have an unsavoury element within our support, and reference to terrorist groups and members of those groups do not look good.

By: Frank Devine

Frank Devine — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:11:42 +0000

Is it not completely unbelievable that we need to discuss this anti-Irish hatred? If the demented (and not so demented – because I suggest that the majority, not the ‘tiny minority’ are in complete support of this deranged hatred), individuals who indulge in this madness sung about Jewish, Polish, Lithuanian, Italian, Roma, or indeed, any other ethnic group there would be a massive outcry.

In terms of Scottish society the issue is that the ‘catholics’ cannae take a joke?

You would be jailed in Germany for anti-semitism (I am not suggesting a comparison here with the treatment of Irish catholics in Scotland).

But thank God the Scottish Protestant League (Glasgow), and Protestant Action (Edinburgh), never got a major foothold in Scottish municipal politics in the 1930’s (can you imagine how our forefathers would have been treated? All they had to put up with was the lumpen scum of the Orange Order (and that was bad enough in terms of employment etc).

Why do they hate us so much?

Is it because we attempted to educate our families, asked them to be proud of their Irish heritage, taught them to love rather than hate, brought them up to support Celtic Football Club (the club our forefathers founded), encouraged them to ’stick in’ at school, encouraged them to do well?

What is the problem with the Irish catholic community in Scotland that is not a fundamental issue with the Irish anywhere else in the World.

I think I know – does anyone else?

By: FIGHT RACISM

FIGHT RACISM — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:55:39 +0000

It would be useful if on the back of any statement the SPL were to say that all forms of anti-Irish racism have to stop and if anything occured in future then there would be sanctions.This would help address the anti Irish abuse that is aimed regularly at Aiden McGeady and James McCarthy,and is not just the product of a poisonoius racist element at Ibrox.