I always assumed it was about Glasgow and Celtic. Maybe I’m completely wrong though
Isn’t I just an excuse to chant ooh aah up the RA?
It was written for Celtic by the Wolfe tones yeah. Relatively recently too maybe early 90s
It is
Written in 1984 per Brian Warfield and aired first circa 1987.
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The girls were just embracing Scottish culture while in Glasgow. Very inclusive of them
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Correct
Also technically they were just describing what the graffiti said
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Was a bit hit in the Kenyon in Nenagh in the late 90s when I frequented there as a young lad.
I’d no bother with the singing of celtic symphony, I’d give the young wan who recorded it and sent it around her marching orders however.
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Wait until Cork win an all Ireland and images of Hoggie blasting out a verse or two of rule Britannia goes viral
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He’d be singing it with his 3 or 4 girlfriends 
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It’s some craic when this is belted out during a session.
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What i find hard to believe is that so many people watched a wimins soccer match.
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Its a great song.
Noise over nothing to be honest.
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I always think of our mutual acquaintance when I hear that song, he used to belt it out every time he had a couple of pints in him
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it doesn’t take much with him, a beauty
Ballyragget 1887.
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