![]() ![]() This is meant to be anachronistic in 2009 but it will not feel like it on Sunday afternoon in Glasgow - or in Coleraine. What it says about life there is probably greater than what it says about the Old Firm, but as they prepare for their first meeting of the season at Ibrox on Sunday - and first since McDaid’s death - the influence of Rangers and Celtic remains fierce.īeyond football, the lives of catholics and protestants in Scotland and Ireland are still in some way shaped by the Old Firm, and vice versa. This occurred in Coleraine in Northern Ireland 11 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. In the hours after the killing, the police identified ‘sectarianism’ as a possible motive. ![]() Paying their respects: Ally McCoist and Walter Smith look at tributes left to Tommy Burns at Celtic Park after Burns' death aged only 51 in May last yearĮight men were charged with murder three days later. ![]()
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