{"id":299943,"date":"2022-06-17T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/?p=299943"},"modified":"2022-06-17T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:53:18","slug":"line-of-duty-star-martin-compston-slams-claims-he-sang-ira-lyrics-with-celtic-fans-in-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/uk-showbiz\/line-of-duty-star-martin-compston-slams-claims-he-sang-ira-lyrics-with-celtic-fans-in-viral-video-299943","title":{"rendered":"Line of Duty star Martin Compston slams claims he sang &#8216;IRA lyrics&#8217; with Celtic fans in viral video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Line of Duty star Martin Compston has issued a statement denying claims he sang &#8220;any sectarian songs&#8221; with Celtic fans in Las Vegas this week.<\/p>\n<p>The actor spoke out after a video of him singing and dancing to Daniel Boone&#8217;s 1972 hit Beautiful Sunday at<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"> the annual North American Federation of Celtic Supporters Clubs conference went viral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the video gained traction online, the Scottish star took to Twitter to address the controversy surrounding the clip.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unicef Ambassador Martin Compston singing songs praising the IRA, quite sickening isn&#8217;t it, innocent civilians including women, children and infants. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ka86kUF3pH\">pic.twitter.com\/ka86kUF3pH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Silvio Tattiscone \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc63\udb40\udc74\udb40\udc7f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 (@SilvioTattiscon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SilvioTattiscon\/status\/1537454785217150976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8220;Not best pleased to wake up to a story 8 hours ahead of me before I&#8217;ve had the right to reply.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me be absolutely clear, I unequivocally did not sing ANY sectarian songs. I&#8217;ve worked in Belfast too long to see damage done to think this stuff is a laugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If people want to change the lyrics to a song that&#8217;s sung at Celtic Park, weddings, Still Game, wherever that&#8217;s up to them I&#8217;m not the lyric police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it was an IRA song and I was on stage bobbing along I would understand the story but I&#8217;m pretty sure Daniel Boone had nothing more than Beautiful Sundays in mind when he wrote the song and that&#8217;s what I was singing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A72w8FHGRT\">pic.twitter.com\/A72w8FHGRT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 martin compston (@martin_compston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martin_compston\/status\/1537443159902326788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a second tweet, the 38-year-old shared examples of the abusive tweets he has received from &#8220;folk currently outraged&#8221; over the video.<\/p>\n<p>One tweet read, &#8220;Scum do scum things! There will be no risk to them losing jobs or facing legal action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Example of the folk currently outraged on my timeline. Not interested in what happened just a chance to point to score on one of \u2018them\u2019. Can\u2019t help themselves but <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUjcfl4mUo\">pic.twitter.com\/MUjcfl4mUo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 martin compston (@martin_compston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martin_compston\/status\/1537495478840897537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The viral video shows the actor wearing a 2021\/2022 Celtic away shirt whilst singing on stage with a pint in his hand.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside fellow actors and football players, Martin was filmed jumping around and singing on stage whilst fans in the audience followed suit.<\/p>\n<p>In an additional statement, released to the Scottish Sun, Martin said: &#8220;I 100 per cent did not sing any IRA lyrics. You will see from the footage, I actually pulled up and told others to stop when the words were being changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve spent the last 5 years or my life working in Belfast and I&#8217;ve seen how people&#8217;s lives have been affected by sectarianism. I don&#8217;t take that lightly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_173665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173665\" style=\"width: 1188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173665\" src=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13.png 1188w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13-768x603.png 768w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13-1024x803.png 1024w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13-535x420.png 535w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13-640x502.png 640w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13-681x534.png 681w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-04-at-10.59.13-511x400.png 511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1188px) 100vw, 1188px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Martin is best known for playing Anti-Corruption Unit Detective Inspector Steve Arnott in the BBC drama Line of Duty.<\/p>\n<p>The show, which premiered in 2012, is largely filmed in Belfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 38-year-old has come under fire on social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24682,"featured_media":299960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4154],"tags":[92760,92759],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-17-at-13.03.35.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}