Wolfe Tones star blasts DUP for stirring up controversy over 'up the Ra' lyrics

Wolfe Tones frontman Brian Warfield has blasted what he described as "crankiness in the DUP" for stirring up controversy as he hit out at their hypocrisy.

READ MORE: Wolfe Tones singer Brian Warfield caught out by cruel pranksters on TikTok with mean trick "Central to many grant awards is a commitment to good relations. This festival has set good relations back decades for tens of thousands of teenagers. Rather than moving Northern Ireland forward, this festival is dragging us backwards."

"Remember that people are allowed to have their heroes. One song out of the whole evening describes me walking through Glasgow and reading on the walls, the graffiti on the walls, Celtic are magic are magic, and graffiti on the wall I saw said 'Oh, ah, up the Ra'. Football club Larne suspended their player John Herron after images circulated online on Sunday evening of the former Celtic star apparently wearing a T-shirt which had the caption: “Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the Ra, ooh ah up the Ra.”

Over the weekend, there were other incidents which saw scenes of chanting at the unveiling of a mural of a burning police vehicle. A video also surfaced online of the unveiling of the mural including chants of "Get the Brits out".

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