Police Scotland investigating Republic of Ireland women's team for IRA chants at Hampden Park in Glasgow

The Football Association of Ireland, the team’s manager Vera Pauw and several players addressed the video clip of the players singing ‘Ooh aah up the ‘ra’ in the dressing room with the same apology “for any offence caused”.

UUP leader Doug Beattie said: “The apology needs to be for the actions of the women, not just the hurt caused.”

TUV’s Lorna Smyth commented: "While there have been apologies, tellingly there has been a failure by the FAI or the players to spell out why the song was unacceptable.”

Police Scotland said: "We are aware of the video and enquiries into the incident are ongoing."

East Antrim DUP MLA David Hilditch is known to be one person who made a complaint to Police Scotland as well as writing to UEFA and the FAI regarding the “repulsive scenes” after the Republic of Ireland women's team’s victory over Scotland on Tuesday night at Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Mr Hilditch said: "Unfortunately this is becoming an all too common occurrence, a team wins a trophy or qualifies for a tournament and their first thought is to chant about a terrorist organisation.

"We have seen it numerous times in the past and no doubt we will see it again in the future.”

Mr Hilditch said that the team’s apology “doesn't cut it”.

"There are countless victims of IRA terrorism in both Northern Ireland and the Republic who will be rightly disgusted by the actions of this group of women who are supposed to be representing their country.

"UEFA needs to be sitting up and taking note. If this were a team chanting about Al-Qaeda or Hamas there would be wide spread uproar and the team would most likely be expelled from the tournament. This is no different, but will we see action? I doubt it."

"The very least that should be done is the FAI should be withholding the players' match fees and donating them to an appropriate victims charity."