Martin Compston has denied allegations that he was involved in singing “sectarian songs” at a Celtic fan convention in Las Vegas.
Online footage of the Line of Duty actor seen on stage alongside former Celtic players Alan Thompson and Bobby Petta has appeared online as “IRA” can be heard sung throughout the 1972 song Beautiful Sunday.
The actor, originally from Greenock, has now released a statement on his social media in which he vehemently denies having sung any IRA lyrics to the tune, and said that if his fellow fans want to change the letter, “it depends on them.”
He wrote: “I did not like waking up with a story eight hours before me before I had the right to respond.
“Let me make it clear, I didn’t sing any sectarian songs.
“I worked too long in Belfast to see the wrongdoing to think these things are laughable.
“If people want to change the lyrics of a song that is sung in Celtic Park, weddings, Still Game where it depends on them, I’m not the lyrics police.
“If it was an IRA song and I was on stage swinging, I would understand the story, but I’m pretty sure Daniel Boone had nothing but Beautiful Sundays in mind when he wrote the song and that’s what I was singer “.
It comes after the actor took part in Soccer Aid World XI on Soccer Aid on Sunday to raise money for the children’s charity Unicef, of which he is an ambassador.