The emergence of "Zombie" by The Cranberries as an Irish sporting anthem

Pretty sure there were some on here earlier happy to be singing it as SF provocation.

But as I said, does it matter who started it?

It's clearly political now so they should pick another song.

It doesn't seem anyone is claiming offence at either sing, or admitting to using them to offend.

So no, I think they're fine.

Also singing 'C'mon the Boys in Green' isn't political either, even if it "references the name of an Irish political party"

You might want to take a break.

Is the whole Zombie argument being put forward again now, simply a clever kick back about the controversy of the girls singing 'up the ra' a few weeks ago.

Song is huge all over Asia and has been for years for some unknown reason.

I don't think it's even the usual social media cranks. It seems to be mainly Shinners who are deeply unhappy at a song which singles out the IRA for criticism (I never knew until this weekend that they don't like Dolores O'Riordan and have an issue with her because of the song).

John Hume was far from entrenched. Indeed, you are actually quoting a speech he made around the same time that we was trying to broker a position of sitting down with Sinn Fein. Hume despised the IRA, that much has always been clear, but he certainly co-operated with militant Republicanisn because he rightly saw the value in doing so and he was criticised by a lot of the usual "I talk peace but do nothing to promote it" types. Indeed, three years previous to the speech you quoted, Hume's attempt to meet the IRA leadership in the Republic was criticised by Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald, who threatened to intervene and stop the meeting.

One could probably safely assume that, had Boards existed in 1985 and you were knocking around, you'd be giving us the "murderous bastards" blah blah and how horrid a man Hume must be to engage with them. But those views got us nowhere ultimately.

Zombie never did anything for me. Like a few Cranberries songs like Dreams. I remember reading reviews of either their 2nd or 3rd album way back and they were slated as a band then. Funny how a death can elevate.

Of course young people have a choice not to vote for SF.

Voting for someone just because they are not the current govt is not a good strategy at all.

There were almost 30k homes built last year by the way. How many do you think SF will build if they get into power?

lol they are still terrified about who's name is going to come up as a tout as so many were at it, multiple touts in the same unit at some stages all ratting on each other .

That was Eamonn Dunphy’s role at the time. He wrote some nasty stuff about John Hume.