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

A few people on Twitter? How does that lead to all the media coverage and the Tanaiste out giving interviews on it?

People complain about all sorts on Twitter all the time!

Left wing policies?

Was it the former Notre Dame girl or Blackrock College boy that convinced you they were left wing? Maybe it was David “up the ra” or Dessie the bomber. It might have been the finance received from the proceeds of crime. It could have been the wiping of all pro Russian propaganda from their website after the invasion of Ukraine.

One thing is clear, it wasn’t the murder of innocent children.

During the course of a radio interview on other matters, The Tanaiste was asked by the interviewer what he thought of the song Zombie. Of course he commented on it, and his comments made good sense. I do not usually vote FF but I may next time.

The shinner bots have really made fools of themselves this time. As someone else said, let's hope Stade de France play it after a game 4 more times! Hopefully it will be sung during matches too, give the lads a boost.

Sure, and his answer then, it looked well prepared to me.

Essentially saying anyone who criticizes this song supports terrorism...

Where did that come from?

Plenty others have criticized the song over the years!

Again I'll make the point you all keep ignoring...

People have criticized Band Aid over the years, that doesn't for a second equate to them supporting famine.

Trying to drag divisive Trump style politics into our sports is all this is.

Just to put micheal martins comments on this into perspective, here's a little insight into his relationship with the anti-war movement....

Interesting to see his reaction on this in relation to his claims that criticizing 'Zombie' equates to supporting terrorism...

Of course it was later pointed out that no-one representing the pro-neutrality voice was invited to Mr Martin's conference on the future of neutrality.

https://www.thejournal.ie/consultative-forum-galway-day-two-protests-triple-lock-6100833-Jun2023/

Criticising those who defend the murder of innocent children is Trump style politics in Shinnerland.

Let's be honest about this. Shinners (and I mean by that SF supporters, not voters) were smarting because of the flak that Celtic Symphony got and in their warped minds they thought that they could score points by having a go at Zombie on Twitter. It has spectacularly backfired because anybody with half a brain was able to see that the two contexts were completely different.

Once again you have your facts wrong. It all started because some Shinners criticized the singing of Zombie after the rugby. They said it was pro-partition and disrespectful to Republicans in the north. The newspapers and Martin and others responded to this claim and called bollocks. Because we all know that the real reason Shinners don't like the song is it reminds everyone of the sick, cowardly things the IRA did during the Troubles. And good on Martin for pointing that out.

Shinners politicised it, others responded.

ultimately, this whole thing about this song is anti-sf supporters trying to get their revenge because neither the girls football team singing celtic symphony, or people who attended the recent high profile wolftones concert, got much outrage.

You see I've no problem with someone online coming out with this sort of unsubstantiated, derogatory opinion...

It's when our Tanaiste does it I have a problem.

The idea that sf voters approve of terrorism, on the basis of some online comments which don't by a long shot equate to supporting terrorism, is so similar to Trump calling all Democrats 'radical-left' and 'antifa' it's scary.

And to be dragging that kind of politics into our enjoyment of sports pisses me off more so.

How does someone criticising those who defend child murderers prevent you from enjoying sport?

I've had a bit of a google I can't find where Martin says being against the song means SF voters support terrorism. Do you have that quote?

I listened to him say that the song was about an horrific act (in quite a bit of detail) and that he can't understand why people would say its partitionist or shouldn't be sung. Maybe I couldn't find the full interview. Do you have a link to it where he calls SF voters supporters of terrorism?

wow anti sf people somehow got shinner twitter posters to post nonsense crap on their accounts and then took advantage by calling them out on it ??

you have a crafty foe indeed 😏😏😏

This is what he actually said.

In response, Martin asked: "How do you mean this is partitionist?" before adding: "That's absurd. I think that's a shocking interpretation of the song.

“I mean, the killing of any child is a reprehensible act. Bombs that were put in the middle of streets which resulted in the death of children is reprehensible.

“A song that reflects that and a song that sort of captures, in the moment, the horror of a young songwriter who isn't looking at it from any sort of political context other than the inhumanity of the act, that's a song of the time.

“It's a song that deserves to be sung. I just do not understand why anybody would try to undermine the lyrics of that song."

He also said: “You plant a bomb in a street, you’re bombing children, you’re bombing innocent civilians.

"There were too many civilians and too many children unnecessarily and immorally murdered and killed as a result of those bombs.

“It's not partionist to say that. We should salute the artistry of a great songwriter rather than attack the singing of a song.”

Apparently that is Trump like in Shinnerland.