Video was released on social media after Tuesday night’s 1-0 win at Hampden Park of the players singing the chant in the dressing room. In 1985 Sammy was a 12-year-old boy asleep in bed on the family’s remote farm near Castlewellan when he was awakened by the sounds of his father William’s “haunting and dying screams”. Sammy Heenan, on his remote farm in the hills around Leitrim, near Castlewellan where his father was murdered by the IRA in 1985, leaving him an orphan. His father was making his early morning rounds on the farm when the IRA forced him to his knees and shot him twice in the head. The IRA claimed to be a member of the RUC, but in reality he was an excavation driver for the Ministry of the Environment. His father was a 52-year-old widower, so the murder left the boy an orphan. Speaking to the News Letter about the IRA chant this week, he told the News Letter: “As a society we are supposed to be in a new dispensation of participation and respect between communities on these islands. “So why is there now this incessant glorification within young nationalism to praise the activities of a murderous terrorist organization like the IRA? “If those young ladies who were singing that song and saw the image I was faced with that morning of our dad lying dead in our house covered in blood after he had been on his knees and shot twice in the head, they would realize the implications of their song. “This organisation, the Provisional IRA, visited misery and bloodshed on both Protestant and Roman Catholic communities on both sides of the border. “The size and symbolism of this group singing this song is huge and I honestly believe that strong sanctions should be imposed to prevent this type of activity from happening again – sending a message of how unacceptable this is.” He didn’t think their apology was enough. “I think these people need to meet victims, they need education and they need awareness.” He added: “I would challenge the Maintained Education system, the GAA and obviously other sporting bodies in the south of Ireland to step up to the level required to stamp out this systemic glorification of terrorism which now seems to be so prevalent among many nationalist youth. That’s not where we’re supposed to be as a society in 2022.” Mr Heenan also drew comparisons with the treatment of Kilmarnock striker Kyle Lafferty. He could face a 10-match ban after admitting he let himself and his team down for using sectarian language recently. The 35-year-old Northern Ireland international was fined by the club after a video surfaced on social media. He also faces a Scottish FA hearing on October 20. “Kyle Lafferty also had to go through sectarianism training,” Sammy said. “These women have to go through the same process. We need to see equality.”