Tuesday 25 November 2014 17:17, UK
Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney has apologised for singing an Irish republican song in a Dublin pub.
A video showing Delaney singing 'Joe McDonnell' - a song about a provisional IRA member who died in prison in 1981 following a hunger strike - was posted on YouTube.
Delaney said that although he sang the the song he doesn't agree with all the lyrics in it and is against violence.
Speaking to RTE radio, he said: "Joe McDonnell is a song that has been sang in my presence and I have chipped in on a number of occasions in the past. I am not somebody who supports violence at all.
"When you sing a song like that, you don't believe in every word that is in the song. I sing a large number of songs, maybe five or six different ones.
"It's normally done in a private way when there is a sing-song. It's a typically Irish thing we do. We sing songs amongst our group and you expect it to be kept to the group.
"What I will say is that if the song offends anybody, of course I'm sorry. It is not in my nature to want to offend people. It was something I have sung or had sang in my presence in the past."
