{"id":554,"date":"2012-11-05T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-gives-racism-the-red-card\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:55:52","slug":"crowe-gives-racism-the-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-gives-racism-the-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe Gives Racism the Red Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Crowe Gives Racism the Red Card<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, played in an anti-racism football match\u00a0 in Irishtown Stadium, for members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and members of the Diplomatic Corps based in Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The event was organised as one of the activities to mark UEFA Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) forthnight of action\u00a0\u00a0In all UEFA affiliated countries, activities are taking place at all levels of the game to promote the anti- racism message. In Ireland, activities are being co-ordinated by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) Intercultural Programme and Show Racism the Red Card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Speaking after the match Deputy Crowe said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cI want to thank Show Racism the Red Card and the FAI Intercultural Programme for making this event happen and for inviting me to play in the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cI was delighted to be able to play in the match and send out a signal that racism has no place in our society. Sports players can sometimes become the subject of racist abuse by fans and fellow athletes, but sport can also be a tool for removing racism from society by bringing people from different races together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cThis match was part of UEFA\u2019s two weeks of action against racism in football and I commend them on their proactive approach to battling racism in football over these two weeks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cWe have recently seen numerous high profile allegations of racism in professional football in Europe and I am happy to see UEFA instigate two weeks of action to highlight the racism has absolutely no place in football, at any level.\u201d<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe Gives Racism the Red Card Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, played in an anti-racism football match\u00a0 in Irishtown Stadium, for members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and members of the Diplomatic Corps based in Ireland. The event was organised as one of the activities to mark UEFA Football Against Racism in Europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}