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    Not sure if it’s a bit controversial or not but there’s no ill intention in it.

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    Posted by Flantery

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    48 Comments

    4. Suvigirl on

      Would you believe I just had to look up this song. I have heard of the band, but didn’t really know it. It’s ok 

    5. KnightsOfCidona on

      I hate the song for a petty reason actually – I once replied to the lead singer about a room in college, told him all about myself (because he asked for info on me) and he never got back to me then put a post up for the room again three days later!

    7. NoBookkeeper6864 on

      Basically any song 2fm plays, support your local radio station folks, they play better music 🎶

    12. Excellent_Eagle_8919 on

      I heard someone describing it as, ‘culturally this is up there with Irelands Chicken roll, split the G mentality’….I can’t get away from it.

    19. redrover1978- on

      I liked it when it came out but it was overplayed & got so sick of hearing it i hate it noe

    21. Former_Ganache3642 on

      Very overplayed song. Their song that goes “gone are the days of the ivory tower” is much more overplayed though.

      None of these come close to how crap the overplayed Irish radio favourites of Cian Ducrot and Dermot Kennedy is though. My God, that is miserable drivel.

    22. FourthBedrock on

      I live near Killeagh and there are only 2 good things about it. Glenbourgh woods and one of the priests tells good jokes.

    23. MidnightSun77 on

      Funny thing is I live in Germany and yesterday some German friend asked me about this song! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤪

      I thought he was going to ask about Fontaines DC when he said Irish band….

    24. LittleRose83 on

      I don’t love it either, feels like it’s trying too hard to be oldskool Irish like the Dubliners or something, but significantly less good

    27. Thiccboiichonk on

      It’s genuinely a good song.

      The fact that it speaks to a swathe of the population who spent their youth and the best years of adulthood representing their parish , town or club just for the love of it means it occupies a fairly relatable even if a little melodramatic space.

      I trained 2-3 times a week and flogged my body at a match every weekend for 25 years to wear the same jersey my dad did before me , and I think the song captures the emotions and motivations of an amateur sportsperson perfectly.

    30. harpyelf on

      I really enjoy the song but I can really understand the fatigue from hearing it everywhere all the time. I fear it’s going to become the new wonderwall for college students with their guitars.

    32. bucajack on

      /r/Ireland the most miserable place on Reddit

      Aren’t we all a bunch of Moaning Michael’s?

    33. iascganuisce on

      I like it a lot. Listen to it quite often. Most people I know love it, but of course that means reddit will insist on hating it.

    34. Original_Marzipan231 on

      Hearing this song played over and over and seeing The 2 Johnny’s consistently at the top of the podcast charts makes me feel like I’m very out of touch with the average Irish person.

    35. Accomplished-Sky8768 on

      I was in a karaoke bar in Chicago and some drunk lad sang this and not even well, very badly, stumbling over it and I felt like knocking him over the head for embarrassing our entire nation

    36. moistpishflaps on

      My niece works in retail and is subjected to that song a disgusting number of times a day. She calls them Bumfluff and Sons

    38. loinnir444 on

      I worked their gig at the galway arts festival. They played killeagh 3 TIMES IN TWO HOURS. anyone who liked the song behind the bar wanted to personally set them on fire by the end.

    41. threein99 on

      This song completely passed me by when it was released. I’ve only got into it the last couple of weeks.

    44. Darth_Memer_1916 on

      This is a brilliant song and I ^(used to) love it. Whenever RTE get their hands on a song from Irish Artists they just absolutely milk it dry and kill the song.

      This is the kind of song that will be played on repeat for the next 2 to 3 years before being forgotten, then it will bring a tear to your eye 30 years from now in a pub.

    45. Don_Speekingleesh on

      I had never heard of this band or song before about two days ago. (I’m still not sure which is which.) I haven’t heard the song and see no reason to change that.

    46. Gorazde on

      There’s a lot of good things about that song. It does capture the idea of the club as being central to community and identity and all the passion and comeraderie that entails. Where it falls down, assuming they were aiming for a work of art, rather than a corporate anthem or an advertising jingle, is the complete lack of nuance or ambivalence.

      There are other sides to small town life: depression, addiction, the lingering sense that there’s a wider world out there and you’re missing out because you chose what was safe and familiar over what was challenging and different. If the songwriter had found some way to acknowledge any of that, the song would have had substance. Instead it’s got about as much subtlety as “Tá an-áthas orm an corn seo a ghlacadh… hip hip hooray!”