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IFA SUPPORTS ANTI-RACISM CONFERENCE
THE IFA’s Head of Community Relations Michael Boyd and Community Relations Officer Colleen Macauley supported a high profile Anti-Racism Conference held by the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities in Belfast on Thursday and Friday.
Michael explained why the IFA is keen to endorse the anti-racism message: “Racism is a serious problem in society and as the governing body for the sport of football in Northern Ireland we have a responsibility to help tackle this problem. We are currently the only sporting body in Northern Ireland represented on the Black and Minority Ethnic Network.
“In 2007 we helped set up the new UK and Ireland wide football specific anti-racism Football Without Frontiers Network to help share good practice tackling issues of discrimination through football. Through our World United football programme we have been actively out in the community encouraging greater understanding and participation of people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds in the sport of football over the last six years,” said Michael.
