In a recent e-mail to members, the club said..."As some of you may or may not have heard, our website was hacked (twice) by persons unknown purporting to be from Islamic State and threatening messages sent to us.
The second attack pretty much wiped the site out. The committee has a responsibility to discuss and take measures to protect the club and a lot of time and energy was spent trying to figure out how best to deal with this
Threats have to be taken seriously and although any real danger is unlikely, it was decided that as an interim measure and as a compromise to some views in the committee to temporarily suspend the use of the cross logo until the proposal could be put to the members at the AGM."
More on the Irish Independent website.
Letting terrorists win.
ReplyDeleteIf you're that sensitive, maybe don't have a club named after holy soldiers who caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
This was done without the authority of the general membership.
ReplyDeleteMany of the members are outraged by this decision and will continiue to wear the original singlet.