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

The voice of a proud Irish man! This is why normal intelligent people can’t tolerant SF. Posts like this

What's in your head, in your head?

Sure ye can just reset the clock like ye always do and convince yerselves it will happen for ye in four years time.

Feel especially bad for FG tonight, they had big plans for the Zombie anti SF push.

Lets hope the GAA embrace Zombie, be awesome to hear it at an all Ireland Final

To those of us in the North, she is a foreigner. And her being a foreigner is the main gripe we have of her (one sided) commentary on what went on here.

I'm Irish, but a very different Irish than those from the south. Thats just reality. Rory McIllroy articulated this very well. Culturally our experiences are very different. We share an island, but that's it. 100 years, that's five generations of difference.

I couldn't tell you about anything politically that goes on in the south. When Gerry Adams went down south he disappeared from our screens. Essentially he went abroad,

Stephen Nolan once did a cross border show with this comic from the south (he had an Irish language name, cant recall it) and the difference was stark. Theres just a surface level understanding, as opposed to a shared lived experience.

I've a great clip of Joe Brolly talking about this "totally different experience" (and his comment on the southern orthodoxy of criticising northern nationalists) but I cant yet post the link on here as a new member.

After tonight, I hope they replace it with Linger.

you ask why I am getting involved. Because twisted individuals are turned a somewhat catchy rock/pop song into something it’s not.

Finding offence and trying to excuse IRA murder.

their relentless posting needs to met with opposition. Otherwise their “truth” becomes accepted.

life is quite simple. All Sports are good. Sporting Competition is good. Murder is not.

its just a song. And if you go all the way back to page 2, 3 or 4 before the tsunami of shinbots postings, this thread was done.

many people including me can’t stomach the relentless tripe that’s being posted here

The only positive on a bad night for Irish sport is that we dont have to suffer that bastàrd song or the sheep bleating it anymore.....

Lads your an embarrassment. It’s a pop song that you twisted into more than it was ever meant to be by Twits on twitter.

SF bot boys doubled and doubled down again, to the point that a crappy English paper has it on its website. Well done you.

normal people enjoyed you being uncomfortable and watching megamanboobs Et al Relentless nonsensical postings.

now your rejoicing in Ireland losing so you don’t have to listen to a pop song.

Proud Irish people indeed.

Ireland got beaten. Get over it.

100% agree with you here.

As I alluded to a previous post, its almost fitting that such a divisive song (and one that has raised up old feelings/emotions long since buried) is used by fans at rugby, a class based game. I still like my rugby, albeit it's a different sport to when its was in its heyday when it was less attritional/brutish and had more open running play.

The contrast with a provocative (and exceptionally ignorant) song in "Zombie" and a joyous, unifying anthem in "Put Em Under Pressure" couldn't be starker.

I don't buy this lived experience nonsense with respect to IRA atrocities. What part of a northern republican's lived experience informed them it was ok to move on from defending their community from attack (close to 100% Irish support north and south) to attacks on British forces (still fairly unanimous) to farmers part time in the UDR (starting to get a bit hairy) to blowing up a boat to kill an 80 year old man when 7 other innocent people got on the boat? The vast majority of people north and south know what is disgusting. The rest are the zombies Delores was singing about.

I should have been clearer, I went to Windsor Park yes, but never to support NI. Im Irish, not northern Irish. I support the ROI (the Irish tricolour, which existed before partition, is my flag). I went maybe 10 times in total, most of which were club games (friendlies involving English teams)...three other times involved NI (vs ROI, Portugal and Austria). I do tell a lie though as there was one time I supported NI and that was against Austria, as it helped the ROI to finish 2nd in the group.

Similar to the rugby team I'd love to see a united Ireland football team (as did George Best as it happens).

The united Ireland question is much more debatable. When you are young and idealistic then yeah, of course. Personally cant see it in my lifetime.

😂 ...you sage. That little nugget deserves to be saved for posterity.

"80% neck" is the best description of a modern rugby player I think i've come across. The calories they now have to consume every day is immense. Bigger, broader, and more brutish, they've destroyed the game as spectacle. It used to just be South Africa who were brutish and awful to watch, now generally speaking they all are. It's become an arm wrestle contest as opposed to the more open running/passing game it once was. The Aussie public have ditched the sport for this reason (they contrast RU with the infinitely more attacking and skill based NRL, so it's status there now is hardly a surprise).

Oh for the days of O'Driscoll, D'Arcy and co.

their truth is thee truth, so it's already accepted.