Notre Dame hockey slammed for bizarre set of now-deleted guidelines for fans traveling to game in Belfast

The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish person agelong held a transportation to the Emerald Isle. But the school's hockey squad whitethorn regret taking portion successful a contention successful Belfast aft sending retired a bid of guidelines to fans.

In a now-deleted tweet, the school's men's hockey squad advised fans to debar wearing definite colors and utilizing peculiar phrases associated with the schoolhouse earlier arriving for games astatine the SSE Arena astatine the extremity of November.

Notre Dame is playing determination arsenic portion of a four-team tourney called the 'Friendship Four' - with the different 3 teams participating each coming from Hockey East: Merrimack College, Harvard University, and Boston University (which, worthy noting, is simply a abstracted instauration from Boston College).

The tweet read, 'We can't hold to spot your Notre Dame successful Belfast cogwheel wrong SSE Arena. Just a reminder to debar our Irish symbolism, that whitethorn beryllium deemed violative to some, portion retired astir town.'

That tweet besides came with a graphic - instructing attendees what to debar wearing.

While the school's colors are navy bluish and gold, greenish has been commonly utilized by the assemblage successful its uniforms.

Nevertheless, the tweet advised radical to debar wearing immoderate greenish to the game. 

They besides said to debar wearing thing that said 'Fighting Irish' oregon 'Irish'. This is worthy noting arsenic the hockey squad has special-edition uniforms made conscionable for this crippled successful Belfast which accidental 'Irish' diagonally crossed the chest.

One logo agelong associated with the assemblage is of a leprechaun successful a warring stance. The school's graphic listed that leprechaun arsenic 1 of its things not to wear.

Wrapping up the database of what not to deterioration see the Irish tricolor arsenic good arsenic immoderate shamrocks.

The schoolhouse was blasted for the station crossed societal media, particularly connected X, formerly Twitter.

'That tweet from Notre Dame Hockey was perfectly wild,' wrote 1 idiosyncratic connected the platform.

Another said, 'Notre Dame Hockey tin get bent.'

One idiosyncratic joked: 'PSA: Notre Dame hockey fans, conscionable deterioration Rangers FC jerseys everyplace you spell successful Belfast, question British flags too, you'll beryllium ok!!'

Notre Dame's shot team, by acold the astir palmy sporting instauration astatine the school, has played a fig of games implicit successful Ireland implicit the years - each against the United States Naval Academy.

They held their archetypal crippled astatine Croke Park successful Dublin successful 1996 against the Midshipmen, winning 54-27. The Fighting Irish returned successful 2012 to play Navy erstwhile again, this clip astatine the Aviva Stadium and coming location with different triumph by a people of 50-10.

Notre Dame was scheduled to instrumentality portion successful a crippled against Navy again successful August of 2020, but the crippled was shifted to the Naval Academy's stadium successful Annapolis, Maryland owed to the Covid-19 pandemic.

They yet some played again astatine the Aviva successful 2023 - with Notre Dame winning 42-3.