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09th Dec 2014

Bohemians apologise for anti Shamrock Rovers tweet

The League of Ireland club say their account was compromised

Patrick McCarry

The rogue tweet was in the Twitter ether for 10 minutes before it was spotted and removed

Bohemians FC have told SportsJOE that their Twitter account was compromised and that no member of their staff – full-time or ancillary – was responsible for the anti Shamrock Rovers tweet that was send out this morning.

Bohs tweet

The tweet has since been deleted and an apology issued on the club’s behalf. A club spokesperson told us, ‘Our webmaster got a call from one of our fans about the tweet. Our account was accessed by someone other than the four people that have the log-in details. We contacted each of them and no-one sent that message.

‘Obviously nobody from the club put that up.’

The club will follow up with their webmaster and Twitter to ascertain who the culprit was.

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