Skip to content
Support Us

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

Darko Bandic

Euro 2016: Russia handed suspended ban over fan violence, fined €150,000

It means the side are allowed remain in the competition but face being kicked out if there’s more trouble.

RUSSIA HAVE BEEN handed a suspended ban from organisers of the Euro 2016 tournament in response to fan violence at the weekend.

It means the side are allowed remain in the competition but face being kicked out if there’s more trouble in a stadium at the competition.

The side were also fined €150,000 over unrest in the stadium when the team played England in Marseille on Saturday.

Russia were found guilty by Europe’s governing body of crowd disturbances, racist chanting and throwing fireworks.

Moscow earlier described the violence involving Russian fans as unacceptable and called on them not to react to any provocation.

“This is absolutely unacceptable. We count on Russian citizens and fans to obey the laws of the country they are in,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that “we can only call on our fans not to react to any sort of provocation”.

“Fans from a whole range of countries took part in the riots. Unfortunately from Russia as well,” he said.

Thrown out 

Meanwhile local authorities say that a group of Russian football supporters are being thrown out of France because it is feared they will cause more trouble.

Authorities were today checking the identities of 29 supporters at a hotel near Marseille and some of them are to be taken to a holding centre at the border, local authorities told AFP.

It is believed the supporters intended to travel to the northern city of Lille, where Russia play Slovakia tomorrow.

Reporting from © AFP 2016 and Daragh Brophy. 

Read: The Sun has come out for the ‘Leave’ side as polls point to a Brexit >

Read: As it happened: Ireland v Sweden, Euro 2016 >

Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone...
A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation.

Close
75 Comments
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Mark Malone
    Favourite Mark Malone
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 2:53 PM

    Great idea fair play. Now if we could just get people to stop littering in the first place….

    All suggestions welcome.

    445
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Ross Stewart
    Favourite Ross Stewart
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 3:01 PM

    Make people who are caught littering have to pick up litter for a week. A lot to be said for community service.

    256
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute TradeLead Steve
    Favourite TradeLead Steve
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 3:10 PM

    Yep don’t litter ! Or else big Paul gonna sort ya out.

    157
    See 4 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute RobsonKeane
    Favourite RobsonKeane
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 4:58 PM

    People who use selfie sticks need to be excommunicated from society.

    65
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Freddie Rincon
    Favourite Freddie Rincon
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 5:14 PM

    Public crime deserves public shaming. Saturday and Sunday in a busy mainstreet near there home. With their name on a bib . Put them in the paper or on tv after the angelus. They do it in Bolivia for a host of offences. Just need wardens on commission to enforce it. Draconian but I bet it would work.

    36
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Joe
    Favourite Joe
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 6:03 PM

    Take more than a weekend. All sponsored by a tax exile

    5
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute AN other
    Favourite AN other
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 9:04 PM

    The tax exile that puts money directly into the community and charities alike whilst bypassing bankers paydays?

    39
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Better Call Callely
    Favourite Better Call Callely
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 3:22 PM

    Fair play to JP, Paul O’Connell and everyone involved in this idea. Ideally something like this shouldn’t be needed, great getting the people of Limerick together and invoke a community spirit that has disappeared in recent years. Good to see Limerick in the media for a feel good story like this instead of the usual portrayal by the national media.

    166
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Mike Fahey
    Favourite Mike Fahey
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 3:07 PM

    Well done Limerick. Great idea for getting people out and about and working as a community.

    157
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Brian Kelly-Mor
    Favourite Brian Kelly-Mor
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 2:54 PM

    Great work Paul

    134
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute marty1w
    Favourite marty1w
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 4:25 PM

    Well done to all involved and the weather is also improving…it will be a beautiful weekend in Lovely Limerick

    82
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Shy Guy
    Favourite Shy Guy
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 4:22 PM

    I’ve often wondered couldn’t the authorities request all the customers from the bin collection services and anyone who isn’t paying to have their rubbish taken away be questioned as to what they are doing with it? I mean it’s a disgrace we have a beautiful countryside and its being ruined.

    65
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tomás Doyle
    Favourite Tomás Doyle
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 5:58 PM

    Great to see. As generations have passed I have felt we’re all getting a little more self involved and losing what made /makes Ireland great, community spirit. Activities like this make you proud in a way that maybe we’ve still got it.

    41
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Michael Sheahan
    Favourite Michael Sheahan
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 4:57 PM

    I recommend anyone should do a clean up with their local tidy towns at least once to see what people do to our countryside!

    We talk about promoting Ireland as a place for tourists and for business yet we have one hand tied behind our back with people who throw out rubbish from their cars etc into the hedgerows and verges of our roads!

    39
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Danny Mike Hennessy
    Favourite Danny Mike Hennessy
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 3:07 PM

    Not one word about JP McManus???

    28
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute vv7k7Z3c
    Favourite vv7k7Z3c
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 4:03 PM

    He’s mentioned in the piece, Danny

    64
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Danny Mike Hennessy
    Favourite Danny Mike Hennessy
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 5:17 PM

    Jp donated 150,000e to the cause and help organise high visi vests and paying Mr binman to collect the rubbish

    74
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Rodney Dangerfield
    Favourite Rodney Dangerfield
    Report
    Apr 3rd 2015, 5:27 PM

    Thats not me at all. I was in Dublin today giving Joan one

    16
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Dermot O Reilly
    Favourite Dermot O Reilly
    Report
    Apr 5th 2015, 9:47 PM

    A great day for Limerick.

    A great idea! Should be done every year in the future.

    JP and Paul are a credit to Limerick.

    Well done!

    2
Submit a report
Please help us understand how this comment violates our community guidelines.
Thank you for the feedback
Your feedback has been sent to our team for review.
JournalTv
News in 60 seconds