Sunday football in Northern Ireland
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sunday-football-in-northern-ireland-169-18434037
title:
Sunday football in Northern Ireland
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Sunday football in Northern Ireland has been a controversial issue. Until 2008, the Irish Football Association (IFA) under IFA Article 27, prohibited any clubs affiliated with them from playing association football matches on Sunday. The ban initially came from various government legislation, both local and national. Northern Ireland's Protestant Christian majority's observance of Sunday as the Sabbath, was also a major factor which amounted to a continuance of the observance of tradition for a
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Prohibition of football matches on Sunday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_football_in_Northern_Ireland
date created:
2015-02-22T09:03:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T17:49:32Z
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