The Republic of Ireland Women's manager says a shadow has been cast over their qualification for the World Cup after players were filmed singing a song about the IRA.
Vera Pauw's side qualified for the tournament for the first time in their history following a 1-0 win over Scotland at Hampden Park on Tuesday night, after which footage showed the players singing an offensive song.
Pauw said she would not have recognised the song if she had been in the dressing room.
Pauw said that the players were devastated when he talked to them. I've been talking with the two men.
As soon as we don't respect, we have a problem.
The history made what we did wrong. We're aware of it.
The downside of having a foreign coach is that you don't know what's going on. I couldn't do anything about it.
That doesn't mean I don't have responsibilities. I'm responsible for what happened and we'll address it further.
Pauw said that the incident puts a shadow over the Republic of Ireland's achievement of reaching the Women's World Cup.
Pauw said that he and the rest of the squad never have a problem with anything that is disrespectful. I don't take any nonsense to the ref or the opponent.
The other extreme is this one. We did something that hurt people. It is not an excuse that we did not mean to hurt anyone. I apologize for the fact that we respect people.
Our way of dealing with our values is to stop our freedom when we join someone else's. If we didn't intend it, we should have known better.
The players are hurt by their actions. I spoke with the player who put it out. She cried in her room because she hurt people and she never meant it.
I would like to apologize on behalf of my staff and the players. We should treat it as a learning experience.
If it hadn't been put on social media, it would still be incorrect. We will not do it again.
Speaking to Sky Sports News, Mustaki said the whole squad felt embarrassed by the incident.
We apologize in Dublin. She said it was a huge mistake on our part.
We did not mean to cause any hurt when the final whistle went, and we apologize for that.
We are embarrassed. We're embarrassed at this moment in time because there was a lot going on in the changing room and there were a lot of different songs being put on left, right and center.
We apologize for that, we didn't mean any harm.
Mustaki did not think that education programmes were necessary.
We need to learn how to do better in these times. We know that we need to be better in moments like this, because we all know about Irish history.
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