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

they acted in the name of the nationalist community and many of the irish people who supported the rebellion.

they would not have been able to do what they did without the support they had.

no they won't have acted in the name of everyone the same as the BA and british government didn't act in the name of everyone.

nationalists and catholics were oppressed under the apartheid regime that operated in northern ireland, so yes you were talking about victims families as well, all of who's subjecation you support based on your posts.

To be honest with you Snooker Loopy, I grew up in the North and people who come out with views as fervently entrenched as yours tended to be part of the problem — not part of the solution. There is plenty of blame to go around for what happened in the north, but there were plenty of people who crowed about murder and violence but did nothing constructive to actually promote or achieve it — and oft times fell into the same simplistic traps of "murderers this" and "bastards that" which actually probably compounded the problems. You seem to fall right into it.

There are many in the South who gladly milk the moral high ground afforded to them by the fact that the conflict was up North and they could preach peace from their armchairs. Things get a bit more complicated when it's a centuries old division woven into the very fabric of the world around you as soon as you opened the front door.

My advice to you would be to calm down and maybe turn to some other activity for the evening, other than being the arbiter of good and evil.

you are incorrect, sinn fein are an all irish party.

they simply take advantage of the uk when they can because the uk owe them for brutalising the nationalist community.

yes, they do the very thing you are guilty of yourself.

you have no moral authority or moral anything to criticise anyone, tbh.

1 or 2 individuals who claim to be sinn fein and ira supporters, with the rest crying about it being people looking to have a rant about sf and the ira.

ultimately it's something over nothing like the celtic symphony fo/fake outrage.

Are you familiar with “tit for tat” killings, that’s how it was back then.

Get off your high horse, I’m sure if you had been there you would have solved it all with your magical powers of diplomacy and none of those atrocities would have happened. For every 3 examples you have , I could give you 6 by comparison, for example what did the Miami Showband do to deserve their fate.

Also seeing as you’re an undertones fan, did you know that their single “it’s Gonna Happen” (my favourite undertones song ) was written in support of the hunger strikes in 1981.

Does this mean that you’ll be burning all your undertones records now.

Are you familiar with “tit for tat” killings, that’s how it was back then.

Get off your high horse, I’m sure if you had been there you would have solved it all with your magical powers of diplomacy and none of those atrocities would have happened. For every 3 examples you have , I could give you 6 by comparison, for example what did the Miami Showband do to deserve their fate.

Also seeing as you’re an undertones fan, did you know that their single “it’s Gonna Happen” (my favourite undertones song ) was written in support of the hunger strikes in 1981.

When you think of it Zombie is an ideal song to be used as sporting anthem, simple lyrics good pumping air to it.

If people some minority of the warped minded are offended by Zombie, maybe it will wake them out of their slumber, and cop themselves on. Otherwise there is no hope for them.

When MLMC becomes Taoiseach, she'll tell us what to sing. I presume Zombie started being played in Thomond Park, a local Limerick song. The same as Frank and Walters, After All, gets played in Cork. No other agenda.