Tony O'Donoghue says it will be interesting to see how Qatari police and security services deal with boisterous fans at the World Cup.
RTE's football correspondent was stopped by police while filming a piece to camera ahead of the tournament in Doha on Thursday.
Tony was eventually allowed to film the piece after showing the accreditation for himself and his cameraman and says the incident was not as dramatic as the run in a Danish TV crew had with police earlier in the week.
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He told RTE's Morning Ireland: "I had a similar experience yesterday [to the Danish TV crew]. We went up to the stadium. It's called the 974 Stadium. It's going to be completely dismantled [after the tournament]. It was a piece on environment that we were doing. It's going to be a recyclable, an entire stadium to be recyclable, to be dismantled and to be reassembled in some other part of the world.
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"We have all the accreditation, cameraman Owen Corcoran and I. We have the accreditation from FIFA and then we have the local host organising accreditation. We were just outside the stadium and the police came along and asked us to stop. It wasn't as dramatic perhaps as the situation with the Danish camera crew, but I don't think there's anything especially unusual there.
"There's been other situations in other parts of the world where I've been asked to show permits for filming. I think it's just down to bad communication from the organisers down to the security forces on the ground rather than the example of an oppressive regime.
"But when the fans, they're only beginning really to stream in, when they arrive from all the countries and perhaps when they start to get a bit boisterous around the games, it will be interesting then to see the security situation."
The ultra-conservative country were to allow alcohol, which is strictly controlled in the desert state, to be sold at matches but they are now reportedly pressuring FIFA to stop the sale of beer at the eight World Cup stadiums.
Alcohol is due to be available in the area immediately outside match venues and fan zones, as well as within hotels.
Budweiser is one of FIFA’s biggest sponsors but was told on Saturday to relocate stalls selling its product at stadiums to less prominent locations.
The Times reports that Qatar 2022 now wants to go even further and that discussions are ongoing between FIFA and Budweiser, which could lead to huge frustrations among supporters attending matches.
The tournament kicks off on Sunday, with hosts Qatar facing Ecuador in the opening match at 4pm Irish time.
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