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Celtic was founded as a charity for poor Irish immigrants in Glasgow by Brother Walfrid, a Marist Brother originally from County Sligo, Ireland. [75] Consequently, Celtic is strongly associated with Scotland's Irish Catholic community [76] [77] and have a significant number of supporters in Ireland and among members of the Irish diaspora elsewhere.
"When I was growing up, I went to a Catholic school, and there wasn't one Rangers fan in the entire school," said Neil McGarvey, 43, who is involved in the operation of Kerrydale Street, a popular Celtic fan Web site. "It's much more mixed now – my boy goes to a Catholic school, and there are maybe 5 percent Rangers fans now."
Celtic fans also waved Irish and Palestinian flags and displayed a banner accusing Britain of genocide ahead of their Scottish Premiership match with Kilmarnock
Shortly after this two smaller groups of Hibs and Celtic casuals were involved in street battles that took them into the Barras area of the city. The fighting became more vicious and eventually a Celtic boy was knocked out when a sandwich board was used to strike him on the head. [3] 10 November 1986 Hibernian v Celtic, Easter Road
Celtic had already issued a warning to the group after safety breaches in August 2013, and following the incident at Fir Park, Celtic issued "precautionary" suspensions to 128 supporters. 250 season-ticket holders in the group's adopted section of the Celtic Park, section 111, were moved to other parts of the ground, or given the option of a ...
The Bhoys from Seville is a nickname used to refer to Celtic F.C.'s team and fans during Celtic's 2002–03 UEFA Cup campaign, which culminated in their defeat in the final against F.C. Porto in Seville, Spain. Around 80,000 Celtic fans travelled to support their team in the final.
Celtic F.C., a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow Celtic F.C. Women; Bangor Celtic F.C., Northern Irish, defunct Belfast Celtic F.C., Northern Irish ...
The Quality Street Gang was a term used by the Scottish media to describe the Celtic reserve team of the late 1960s. Several of the group eventually replaced members of the Lisbon Lions team that had won the European Cup in 1967.