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Enya's Orinoco Flow was played a short while ago.

They're doing a "Top 500 irish songs" in the lead up to Paddy's Day, so you can bet this is the reason we're getting this sprinkling.

Heard U2 on Dempseys show this morning too.

Yep. Their increase of Irish content is obviously related to their poll. And it's only 100 songs, and as usual, the poll highlights around fifty artists and at least three (sometimes more) of their songs, so the top 100 will obviously consist of these songs. At least they included slots also for each decade and not just artists, which is nice.

I thought it was Kingfishr now that was the meme no?

Over the last 24hrs, with only a couple of hours actually hearing TosayFM, I heard Crazy World, Mandinka, Take a Parachute.

And each time the dj said something along the lines of, "and isnt that a belter".

Well here's an idea TodayFM, maybe play songs like this more often, don't wait until the lead up to St Patrick's or some special Irish Week or whatever. Good songs are good songs, and can be played all year round.

How would everybody feel if Tubs got a show on Today FM?

Snow by JJ72 one of the songs played in an all Irish classic 9 at 11, was not expecting that. Bar the cash machine, Today FM is very listenable at the moment.

Today fm are doing at lot right at the moment.

Why would they take on that ghoul?

The definition of yesterday's man.

Dustin was on with Iano this morning very funny as ever

Couldn't they just use the songs from Tom Dunnes Top 30 Irish songs CD released about 20 years ago when he was working on Today FM and update it with Hozier, Fontaines etc.

Was pleasantly surprised to hear Cooper sample Volcano by Damien Rice just now, that would be very very high on my own personal list.

If I had my way I'd be going for Something Global-Fight Like Apes and Eve The Apple of my Eye- Bell X1 as among the greatest too (you can probably guess my 'era'). Oh and One Horse Town- The Thrills

It's just "a bit" that he does. Same as the tiresome "bad jokes". Nothing more than fluffy, filler.

I actually heard someone play Heyday last week.

Have to say, I am loving this focus on Irish songs. Absolute crackers are being played, some stone-cold classics and some that I haven't heard in years.

Hopefully the response to this has been big and that they'll get the hint to keep it going beyond March.

I've been enjoying hearing Bell X1, Thin Lizzy, Ash and Two Door Cinema Club. People I'd never normally listen to. Even The Boomtown Rats and Aslan too.

Just saying here in the office that we haven't heard anything from Republic of Loose or The Corrs.