Wolf tones Limerick

dave 27

Anyone know is it just pitch standing on Saturday for the concert?

Any idea on how many are going? Hard to find any info on it

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058310681/wolf-tones-limerick

There's still tickets available today and only standing ones so unless they've sold out the seats already, I doubt it's sold out

boetstark

Does anybody else think it's distasteful letting this band play in Gaellic grounds.

Each to their own but I think this lot are outdated and totally offside with their music.

They will be encouraging chanting up the ra and such within earshot of Anne McCabe. This is the same ra that murdered Garda Jerry McCabe and wounded another a few years back. This band and their so called republican followers are not wanted in that general area , I can say that for a fact.

A group called Battalion with lead singer Lisa were prevented from playing Kings Hall Belfast a number of years back. Nationalists did not agree with the music type and content. And yes I think that music and songs has no place in modern Ireland either.

Yet Gaa are grabbing money again allowing this rabble spout their hate music in Limerick.

Cetyl Palmitate

Having to listen to Dermot Kennedy for 3 nights in a row is a bigger crime

Derbhoy

Always one Whinger let the people sing ! Welcome to the Wolfe Tones .The ones complaining are the usual yokes wearing poppies and loving all things Royal

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024124#Comment_121024124

Just to be clear they won't be "encouraging chanting up the ra" they may (or may not) sing Celtic Symphony and the crowd may or may not sing along. If we ban musicians based on the lyrics in their songs there would be a very small selection to choose from.

They do great live renditions of Grace and Sean South, these songs and other, "hate music" as you call them, are regularly sung at many a wedding without controversy

One thing I would argue is that the Gaelic Grounds is a very big venue for a band that only have a few hundred at their gigs on a good day

boetstark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024538#Comment_121024538

OK so they do this or may do that , and the crowd may chant up the ra.

My questions are

Is this singing or chanting appropriate in 21st century ireland and especially in a venue on the doorstep of clareview and ennis Road.

Would you say it was OK if a band playing loyalist songs , glorifying loyalist paramilitaries played near nationalist areas.

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024614#Comment_121024614

Is this singing or chanting appropriate in 21st century ireland and especially in a venue on the doorstep of clareview and ennis Road.

Yes, although I'm not sure what the relevance to clareview and ennis road are. Are you suggesting these are loyalist/unionist areas of Limerick?

Would you say it was OK if a band playing loyalist songs , glorifying loyalist paramilitaries played near nationalist areas.

I don't think this would ever be an issue as bands tend to know their audience.

boetstark

Ah come on now , are you from Limerick?

You could throw a stone from the grounds and hit the late Jerry McCabes House, where his wife still lives BTW. Ennis Rd and Clareview turned out in their hundreds for that funeral , denouncing the organisation that the Wolfe tones glorify.

Also to simplify things, what are your opinions on bands like I mentioned, Battalion , and their music ? They play music that praises loyalist paramilitaries throughout the past 100 years.

Derbhoy

Happens on the 12th July every year Sectarian Bile and effigies of Nationalist persons & tricolours burnt

boetstark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024762#Comment_121024762

Yes and that is rightly condemned, is it also not correct to call out the crap that lot will be playing Saturday night. Same in my opinion as bands on the 12th stopping outside sensitive areas to nationalists and start playing provocative music.

dunworth1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024124#Comment_121024124

Ticket sales speaks for itself really.

go to many a pub in most country/seaside areas and these songs are regularly played with the majority of patrons joining in.

if people had issue with them playing in the Gaellic grounds they would have made themselves vocal when it announced months ago not the day beforehand

boetstark

I promise that concert is not welcome in the ennis Road venue by a large number of people. Very few locals will be attending.

I have never been in a bar where most people were chanting up the ra , and if I was I would leave pretty quickly.

I'm not too sure what the attitude would be if a visitor to NI reported that majority of people in bars around NI were chanting and singing about the UDA and UVF.

dunworth1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025015#Comment_121025015

why didn't the resident association complain? threes a lot of people living around the Ennis road.

i don't live on the Ennis road but i live very close and i know of several people who are going i had tickets myself but when the Coronas announced the castle the missus prefers them so we are going instead, had zero issues selling on the tickets.

so I'm not sure if the Unwelcome-ness you are trying to portray here is as wide spread as you think.

would you have the same feeling is a big rapper was playing?

boetstark

Don't know whether residents felt strongly enough to formally object as they are big gaa types out there.

I'm not sure how a rapper would be offensive to some of the residents out there.

Anyway I think the Wolfe tones are sh#t stirrers that glorify violence. Hopefully they have some bit of decency and not play anything that encourages ira chants.

dunworth1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025944#Comment_121025944

Quite a number of rap songs are offensive to various people.

that's your own opinion and you are entitled to it as are the people who enjoy listening to the Wolfe tone which they should be allow to do so.

boetstark

True , everybody is entitled to their opinion. I struggle to think of a song from any rapper that would be so offensive and insensitive to alot of local people.

I'll say it again, anybody singing chanting up the ra , knowing these scum murdered a local man only a few years ago , are utter scum.

I worked in a local bank a number of years back. One of the heroes that shot Garda mccabe was recently released from prison. He came in with a fine large cheque to lodge. I refused the serve him as my inlaws were friends with above mentioned garda. He just smirked and complained me resulting in me getting severely disciplined. Local residents , account holders rallied to my defense saving my job. That is how alot of locals in that area feel about the group that WT glorify.

Opinions are opinions and everybody is entitled , but wrong is just plain wrong.

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121026079#Comment_121026079

I struggle to think of a song from any rapper that would be so offensive and insensitive to alot of local people.

What about "Murder Murder" by Eminem? He literally raps "Went up in Eastland and shot a policeman"

waterwelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121026079#Comment_121026079

It wasn't a few ago, it's almost 30 years in fact.

A lot of the local residents would have moved on by now.

It's also a stone's throw to Nessan Quinlan's house, and no shortage of people in the area vote for his brother.

TPMP

Does anyone know what road closures are in place, if any? Impossible to find any info on this.