- Home >
- Crime >
- World Crime
Rangers fan given football banning order for singing song mocking Irish famine

Police had arrested nine men in connection with the incident
A Rangers fan has been given a one-year football banning order after he admitted singing an anti-Irish song while marching to the Rangers vs Celtic match.
Bradley Craig (20) pleaded guilty to a Section 38 breach of the peace, with football and religious prejudice aggravations at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Read more
A group of fans were filmed singing the Famine Song in Glasgow city centre, while marching to an Old Firm clash on August 29, 2021.
At his sentencing on Tuesday, he was banned from all football matches for 12 months and given a community payback order of 135 hours unpaid work.
Police Scotland arrested and charged nine men in connection with the incident.
A 21-year-old man was found not guilty at a trial in February this year. No further action was taken on the other seven cases
Today's Headlines
RIP | Former Pop Idol star Darius (41) found dead in his US apartment
abuse allegations | Ex-rugby coach John McClean to stand trial on 49 counts of indecent assault in Dublin school
sore and swollen | Man (26) who suffered horror homophobic attack on Dublin Bus shares injury photos
'Big loss' | Friends and neighbours in Kerry mourn death of ‘smiling lady’ Miriam Burns
Huge Haul | Gardaí arrest woman (50s) as MDMA worth €82K seized in Kildare
Marry-owen | Irish rugby star Josh van der Flier gets married to Sophie De Patoul in Dublin
Investigation | Owner of Thai restaurant at centre of ‘gay orgy’ storm denies holding sex party in premises
Charged | ‘Agitated’ Finglas man went to ex-partner's home ‘armed with crossbow, hatchet and sword’
Truck up | Irish truck driver left receipt for bottle of whiskey next to £3m heroin haul
Flaming fury | Buckfast-swigging bad boy rappers Kneecap thank DUP for publicity after controversial mural unveiled