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Racism in Irish football; FAI's former social media editor; Chris Sutton

We heard from a number of different voices on OTB AM today discussing Cyrus Christie's experience of racism within the Irish team. We had Labour TD Aodhán Ó'Ríordáin, Phelim Warren from fans' group YBIG, and Ken McHugh, co-founder of Sport Against Racism Ireland all on the show. Darragh McGinley, former FAI Social Media Editor, also took a call to discuss the protocols around dealing with online abuse directed towards players. Former Celtic star Chris Sutton joined us too for a chat around his new book. Full show timestamps: 0:00 Show starts 8:45 Sports news with Shane Hannon 16:00 Report on racism in Irish football - Labour TD Aodhán Ó'Ríordáin, Phelim Warren from fans' group YBIG, and Ken McHugh, co-founder of Sport Against Racism Ireland 33:10 Darragh McGinley, former FAI social media editor, on racism in Irish football 47:00 Sports pages 1:16:25 Chris Sutton OTB AM is live weekday mornings from 7:30-10:00 am - the best place to watch or listen is the OTB Sports app or over on our ever-growing YouTube channel. Have you downloaded the brand new OTB Sports app? Just search for OTB Sports in your app store or click the links below. - Play store link - iOs link

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11.16 13 Aug 2020

Racism in Irish football; FAI's former social media editor; Chris Sutton

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11.16 13 Aug 2020

We heard from a number of different voices on OTB AM today discussing Cyrus Christie's experience of racism within the Irish team.

We had Labour TD Aodhán Ó'Ríordáin, Phelim Warren from fans' group YBIG, and Ken McHugh, co-founder of Sport Against Racism Ireland all on the show.

Darragh McGinley, former FAI Social Media Editor, also took a call to discuss the protocols around dealing with online abuse directed towards players.

Former Celtic star Chris Sutton joined us too for a chat around his new book.

Full show timestamps:

0:00 Show starts

8:45 Sports news with Shane Hannon

16:00 Report on racism in Irish football - Labour TD Aodhán Ó'Ríordáin, Phelim Warren from fans' group YBIG, and Ken McHugh, co-founder of Sport Against Racism Ireland

33:10 Darragh McGinley, former FAI social media editor, on racism in Irish football

47:00 Sports pages

1:16:25 Chris Sutton

OTB AM is live weekday mornings from 7:30-10:00 am - the best place to watch or listen is the OTB Sports app or over on our ever-growing YouTube channel.

Have you downloaded the brand new OTB Sports app? Just search for OTB Sports in your app store or click the links below.

- Play store link

- iOs link