Police have concluded that no criminal offences were committed after video footage emerged of a flute band appearing to play a sectarian song at an Irish League side’s social club.
Coleraine FC launched an investigation in August over the incident at its bar on the town’s Ballycastle Road.
The band could be heard playing ‘The Billy Boys’ as a number of people sitting at tables sang along.
One man also waved two small Union flags, while the ‘Welcome to Coleraine Social Club’ signs and club crests could be seen above the bar in the background.
During one song some people were heard making sectarian remarks.
At the time, the PSNI said officers were making “enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the content of the video” and it “is being treated as a sectarian-motivated hate incident”.
However, in a new update, reported by The Irish News, the PSNI said no offences had been detected.
The PSNI said: “The content of the videos, which were examined in the context of a potential hate incidents, were found not to constitute any criminal offence.”
At the time Coleraine said that while the incident happened during a private function, and the club does not oversee activities in these cases, it was investigating what happened with organisers.
It also said the club would review its hire policy.