Ireland fans have slammed the latest rendition of Ireland’s call ahead of Simon Easterby’s side’s final 2025 Six Nations match against Italy in Rome.
The defending champions headed to the Italian capital with an outside bet of winning the Championship in the first of the three Super Saturday fixtures.
However, it did not get off to a good start for the Irish on St.Patrick’s Day Weekend with the singer “absolutely” butchering Ireland’s Call before the match with fans taking to social media to air their criticism.
Reaction to Ireland’s Call
“Ireland’s Call being absolutely butchered,” one fan wrote on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Ireland’s Call being absolutely butchered 😬 pic.twitter.com/aPsv3Frpnd
— Jack Tunney (@JackTunneyRugby) March 15, 2025
That summed up the overall feel for many as onlookers suggesting that the IRFU should lodge a complaint as the anthem would distract the players.
“Ireland should lodge a complaint for that terrible rendition of Ireland’s call. The players won’t be able to concentrate wondering if that cat they were strangling is going to be ok,” one post read.
Meanwhile, one fan said it might be “the worst version of Ireland’s Call” they had ever heard while another agreed, adding: “No harm to the lassie singing but that has to be the worst rendition of Ireland’s call I’ve ever heard… ”
There were further insinuations that it was in fact pre-planned.
“Great tactics by the Italians to get inside Ireland’s heads by absolutely murdering ‘Ireland’s Call’ pre-match. 4D chess,” another fan wrote.
While another simply stated: “Oh dear, that rendition of Ireland’s Call was atrocious!”
That rendition of Ireland’s Call was the final time two players would sing the anthem with Conor Murray and Peter O’Mahony playing their last Test matches for their country in the clash against Italy.
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The teams
Italy: 15 Tommaso Allan, 14 Ange Capuozzo, 13 Juan Ignacio Brex (c), 12 Tommaso Menoncello, 11 Monty Ioane, 10 Paolo Garbisi, 9 Martin Page-Relo, 8 Lorenzo Cannone, 7 Manuel Zuliani, 6 Sebastian Negri, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Dino Lamb, 3 Simone Ferrari, 2 Gianmarco Lucchesi, 1 Danilo Fischetti
Replacements: 16 Giacomo Nicotera, 17 Mirco Spagnolo, 18 Joshua Zilocchi, 19 Niccolò Cannone, 20 Michele Lamaro, 21 Ross Vintcent, 22 Stephen Varney, 23 Leonardo Marin
Ireland: 15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Mack Hansen, 13 Garry Ringrose, 12 Robbie Henshaw, 11 James Lowe, 10 Jack Crowley, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 8 Caelan Doris (c), 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 Jack Conan, 5 Tadhg Beirne, 4 James Ryan, 3 Finlay Bealham, 2 Dan Sheehan, 1 Andrew Porter
Replacements: 16 Gus McCarthy, 17 Jack Boyle, 18 Tadhg Furlong, 19 Joe McCarthy, 20 Peter O’Mahony, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Sam Prendergast, 23 Bundee Aki