Possible Clues:

• Discipline press covering Northern Ireland
• Hit with a fine, say
• Fine, perhaps
• Impose a penalty for being sort of funny? (6)
• Fine, for instance
• Scourge -- somewhat like paronomasia?
• Thrash Ulster in the middle of offensive
• That'll teach you to shove around Ulster
• Like wordplay in speech? That may be fine
• Fine, say