'I think it's ridiculous' - Brian Warfield of The Wolfe Tones has said apologising for singing 'Celtic Symphony' is 'wanting to erase the IRA from our history books.'
"It's gone to the extreme now that I think they want to erase the IRA from our history books, from our schools, from everywhere.
"We never said at any stage that it was going to be about the Provisional IRA, it doesn't say that, it doesn't say anything like that.'That insults me' "They used plastic bullets, we know about the collusion, we know about the bombings in Dublin, the bombings in Monaghan."Everytime they wear a poppy and force people - I don't mind them wearing a poppy if they want to - but they're forcing people.He said the song is not about IRA glorification."I was walking through Glasgow and I see graffiti on the wall and it says 'Up the Celts, Up the Celts.
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