I’d hazard a guess it was sung up and down the country this weekend. The same as every other weekend since the song came out.
Sky News will have a damn stroke.
All I see is Irish people singing in support of the people who won them independence. What is the problem?
Almost as loud as the tutting of all the West Brits on this sub.
Nothing worse than waiting at your gate for a flight, looking around and realising your flight is full of shitheads and mad lads.
Better than what was goin on there a few months ago.
Context is important here. It’s more of a ‘fuck you’ to the Brits and that snide presenter than pro-IRA sentiment. It’s more of a reaction to the Brits saying we need to be ‘educated’ on the topic.
Every time Irish sports has a big event, the Wolfe Tones make a fecking mint
I’m not even Irish and I found out about the song due to this news, it’s pretty catchy
Honestly don’t care. If the media hadn’t blown up the thing with the women’s football team into such a big deal then this wouldn’t even have happened.
Here we go again
Jesus Christ it’s been almost a full week of this. Almost as if it’s a reaction to the pearl clutching patronising outrage from West Brits/Actual Brits (mostly the former).
Anyways looking forward to the next few weeks where the Brits will look with abject disgust on anyone who doesn’t wear a poppy to commemorate British Army war criminals and where James McClean will probably have bullets sent to him in the post again. While the entirety of the Irish political and media establishment has the square root of fuck all to say about any of it. Nothing to see there
From a Brit perspective and some conversations I’ve had in the UK, most people don’t think about the troubles or the struggle for civil rights, they cared about bombing on their home turf though. The average Brit, also, I think feels powerless when it comes to British’ foreign policy.
Many feel screwed over by their own government as well. There is also a disconnect in dealing with the colonial past. It’s not big on people’s agenda. They don’t think of Michael Collins, and the civil rights abuses, they think of current gas prices, and how food is suddenly more expensive. The talking heads have seized on this and it is the talking point du jour.
Just as a reference point, many here are also horrified by the bonfires, and the hateful iconography.
I would like to think this might be a useful moment for people to learn, but I’m past believing in unicorns.
Up da Residents Association!
People in Ireland have a really strong sense of community. I like that!
It’s abundantly clear that all this outrage wasn’t about the women’s team. They’re almost an afterthought now. It’s been kept alive by people who *want* to be offended and *want* everyone else to know about it.
The number of people who are now singing it in public, in bars, buying the single to get it to the top of the charts are doing so in defiance at people complaining about it.
This is a very good example of the Streisand effect. If people had just accepted the apology and moved on none of this would’ve been such a big deal.
It’s like when a toddler says a dirty word, and the mother reacts with shock and horror, and the toddler laughs at the mother’s reaction and keeps repeating the word. I’m torn between “Jesus, stop acting like toddlers” and “fuck it, let’s give the pearl clutchers something to clutch their pearls about.”
The funny thing is, I haven’t heard of anyone who genuinely was personally hurt by the singing. If they are there, they’ve been drowned out by the hateful old bags like Arlene Foster, Carla Lockhart etc. who gleefully seized on a trivial incident and are using it as ammunition to bash all Irish people. Of course these hypocrites have no problem being photographed shaking hands and lighting hatefest bonfires with UVF/UDA sectarian murderers and narco-terrorists.
Normally Irish people bend over backwards for international approval. It great to see us not give a fuck what some tv personalities have to say .
When is sky news going to do a piece on the lodges playing the sash in public on a weekly basis?
That’s ok because songs about wading through fenian blood is alright and part of the culture of slaughtering Catholic civilians.
yes up the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun
Have they issued an apology yet?
Having spent a few years living in the UK, I can say with certainty that’s it’s the English who need the history lesson.
Do you think Dublin airport needs some education
I can’t believe these west Brits are singing a song about a British soccer club.
No true Gael would do that.
We are the only country that gets guilted for being anti imperial.
I will always take a comment on the chin about how we let the catholic church systematically rape children but i will turn into Michael Collins any time someone tries to make me feel bad for being anti imperialism.
Certain groups of the Ira were terrorists that doesn’t make what the others did any less important to our history. Fuck anyone who tries to make every Ira song about terrorist attacks (that both sides committed) during a 30-40 year period when we were under imperial rule for 700-800 years.
Nigel Farage being tricked into saying that will never cease to be hilarious.
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I’d hazard a guess it was sung up and down the country this weekend. The same as every other weekend since the song came out.
Sky News will have a damn stroke.
All I see is Irish people singing in support of the people who won them independence. What is the problem?
Almost as loud as the tutting of all the West Brits on this sub.
Nothing worse than waiting at your gate for a flight, looking around and realising your flight is full of shitheads and mad lads.
Better than what was goin on there a few months ago.
Context is important here. It’s more of a ‘fuck you’ to the Brits and that snide presenter than pro-IRA sentiment. It’s more of a reaction to the Brits saying we need to be ‘educated’ on the topic.
Every time Irish sports has a big event, the Wolfe Tones make a fecking mint
I’m not even Irish and I found out about the song due to this news, it’s pretty catchy
Honestly don’t care. If the media hadn’t blown up the thing with the women’s football team into such a big deal then this wouldn’t even have happened.
Here we go again
Jesus Christ it’s been almost a full week of this. Almost as if it’s a reaction to the pearl clutching patronising outrage from West Brits/Actual Brits (mostly the former).
Anyways looking forward to the next few weeks where the Brits will look with abject disgust on anyone who doesn’t wear a poppy to commemorate British Army war criminals and where James McClean will probably have bullets sent to him in the post again. While the entirety of the Irish political and media establishment has the square root of fuck all to say about any of it. Nothing to see there
From a Brit perspective and some conversations I’ve had in the UK, most people don’t think about the troubles or the struggle for civil rights, they cared about bombing on their home turf though. The average Brit, also, I think feels powerless when it comes to British’ foreign policy.
Many feel screwed over by their own government as well. There is also a disconnect in dealing with the colonial past. It’s not big on people’s agenda. They don’t think of Michael Collins, and the civil rights abuses, they think of current gas prices, and how food is suddenly more expensive. The talking heads have seized on this and it is the talking point du jour.
Just as a reference point, many here are also horrified by the bonfires, and the hateful iconography.
I would like to think this might be a useful moment for people to learn, but I’m past believing in unicorns.
Up da Residents Association!
People in Ireland have a really strong sense of community. I like that!
It’s abundantly clear that all this outrage wasn’t about the women’s team. They’re almost an afterthought now. It’s been kept alive by people who *want* to be offended and *want* everyone else to know about it.
The number of people who are now singing it in public, in bars, buying the single to get it to the top of the charts are doing so in defiance at people complaining about it.
This is a very good example of the Streisand effect. If people had just accepted the apology and moved on none of this would’ve been such a big deal.
It’s like when a toddler says a dirty word, and the mother reacts with shock and horror, and the toddler laughs at the mother’s reaction and keeps repeating the word. I’m torn between “Jesus, stop acting like toddlers” and “fuck it, let’s give the pearl clutchers something to clutch their pearls about.”
The funny thing is, I haven’t heard of anyone who genuinely was personally hurt by the singing. If they are there, they’ve been drowned out by the hateful old bags like Arlene Foster, Carla Lockhart etc. who gleefully seized on a trivial incident and are using it as ammunition to bash all Irish people. Of course these hypocrites have no problem being photographed shaking hands and lighting hatefest bonfires with UVF/UDA sectarian murderers and narco-terrorists.
Normally Irish people bend over backwards for international approval. It great to see us not give a fuck what some tv personalities have to say .
When is sky news going to do a piece on the lodges playing the sash in public on a weekly basis?
That’s ok because songs about wading through fenian blood is alright and part of the culture of slaughtering Catholic civilians.
yes up the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun
Have they issued an apology yet?
Having spent a few years living in the UK, I can say with certainty that’s it’s the English who need the history lesson.
Do you think Dublin airport needs some education
I can’t believe these west Brits are singing a song about a British soccer club.
No true Gael would do that.
We are the only country that gets guilted for being anti imperial.
I will always take a comment on the chin about how we let the catholic church systematically rape children but i will turn into Michael Collins any time someone tries to make me feel bad for being anti imperialism.
Certain groups of the Ira were terrorists that doesn’t make what the others did any less important to our history. Fuck anyone who tries to make every Ira song about terrorist attacks (that both sides committed) during a 30-40 year period when we were under imperial rule for 700-800 years.
Nigel Farage being tricked into saying that will never cease to be hilarious.