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  • 08-10-2015 6:25am
    #1
    kevyg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭


    Anybody else not from Munster dislike singing this song at international matches. I can't stand it. I wouldn't sing Molly Malone either btw.


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  • #2
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    kevyg wrote: »
    Anybody else not from Munster dislike singing this song at international matches. I can't stand it. I wouldn't sing Molly Malone either btw.

    'tis better than 'swing low'. Awful tune.


  • #3
    vkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    Sure don't sing it so.. Plenty of people do and identify with it. I like the eerie atmosphere it can create but sometimes it just sounds half assed.
    I hate molly Malone, not just for rugby..I just don't like it.. you will find it hard to find a song everyone will like and sing


  • #4
    vienne86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,077 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    Not keen on it at all myeslf, so just don't sing it. If others like it, let them work away.


  • #5
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    We are one of the wealthiest countries in the world but still feel obliged to sing that self pitying mank and at a rugby match? Cry all the way home in your Beemers lads.


  • #6
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Molly Malone!? Why the hell would you sing that?
    Fields of athenry every time.
    If we could only sing our national anthem as well it would be great.


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  • #7
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,919 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    crazygeryy wrote: »
    Molly Malone!? Why the hell would you sing that?
    Fields of athenry every time.
    If we could only sing our national anthem as well it would be great.

    Molly Malone was always sang at internationals years ago. The Fields of Athenry is a relatively recent development, as in the last 15 years or so.


  • #8
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    crazygeryy wrote: »
    Molly Malone!? Why the hell would you sing that?
    Fields of athenry every time.
    If we could only sing our national anthem as well it would be great.

    Why? The Republic of Ireland doesn't have a national rugby team and the anthem is dirge.


  • #9
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    Obligatory "Athenry's in Connacht" comment.


  • #10
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Well that took a few more weeks than I thought.


  • #11
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    dregin wrote: »
    Obligatory "Athenry's in Connacht" comment.

    It's actually:

    Athenry's in Galway,
    Galway is in Leinster,
    Na-na-na-na,
    Na-na-na-na.


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  • #12
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    molloyjh wrote: »
    It's actually:

    Athenry's in Galway,
    Galway is in Leinster,
    Na-na-na-na,
    Na-na-na-na.

    :confused: Do you really think that's true?!?!


  • #13
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    dregin wrote: »
    Obligatory "Athenry's in Connacht" comment.

    To paraphrase Tommy Tiernan, "Well, it's not in f**king Mexico"


  • #14
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    Molly Malone was always sang at internationals years ago. The Fields of Athenry is a relatively recent development, as in the last 15 years or so.

    I think the change happened around the time the bandwagoners discovered rugby.


  • #15
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #16
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    These threads never end well. Thread closed. OP do not create multiple threads on the same topic again.


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