Celtic and Irish international striker Anthony Stokes was sent a death threat on Twitter, after the soccer player attended a tribute for a murdered IRA boss.
A Twitter user named @gonzo1690 said he hoped the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary group, would ‘put a bullet’ in the 23-year-old’s head.
He tweeted: “Hope the UVF put a bullet in your head you f****** p****’.
In the same tweet, the user added: “If I ever see you you’re getting smashed ya ****.”
In response Stokes tweeted to his 69,000 plus followers: “Do I need to send this to the police or do they just pick up on it?”
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The Twitter outburst came after Stokes attended a memorial event for murdered Irish gangster Alan Ryan (32) who was shot in broad daylight last September.
Hundreds of people attended the November 2 memorial for Ryan at the Submarine Bar in Crumlin in which Stokes was pictured beside a female in a gold dress.
The footballer said he was "attending a fundraiser for a family to pay funeral costs".
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.ToryTory | Dec 06, 2012, 04:11 PM EST
Hilarious that Irish Central spin this story in order to solicit sympathy for this moron. Alan Ryan, this gangster thug who was a member of the terrorist Real IRA, terrorised Dublin and was a known drug lord. He extorted money from innocent Dubliners, ran a racketeering outfit and was pusher of drugs. So get this, some guy on twitter has a pop and this moron Celtic goon for attending his funeral? Well, completely understandable. Paying your respects to a known gangster and criminal? Unbelievable.
seamus60 | Dec 04, 2012, 06:39 PM EST
Bocktherobber. I didn`t know Ryan had a conviction for drug dealing.
cillowen | Dec 04, 2012, 01:48 PM EST
fittiung the proddi mold is what all should be in harmony with - marching like those charlie chaplin types - who knew?
Bocktherobber | Dec 04, 2012, 11:36 AM EST
That's the best yet. A fundraiser to pay for a drug dealer's funeral.
Mortimer74 | Dec 04, 2012, 10:43 AM EST
Any chance of making public the name of the coward who hides behind a twitter account?