God Save the Queen at Croke Park
Posted on | February 24, 2007 | 37 Comments
While I’m not particularly bothered one way or the other about the rugby or the playing of the English national anthem at Croke Park I can understand why some people have a problem with it (besides being small-minded GAA fuckwits).
So a compromise should have been reached. Let them play God Save the Queen but it has to be performed and sung by the Sawdoctors.
Everyone’s happy.
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February 24th, 2007 @ 11:54 am
To the tune of “N17″ because it rhymes.
February 24th, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
Better still, to the tune of ‘God Save the
Queen’.
February 24th, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
By the Sex Pistols.
February 24th, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
By Dervish, surely? Then we could enter it in the Eurohomovision Mong Contest.
February 24th, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
If memory serves, ‘God Save the Queen’ was sung at Croke Park a few years ago during the Special Olympics.
The present bs is totally media-generated.
February 24th, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
Twenty,
God Save the Queen is the British Anthem.
Intellegent English folk have been campaigning for years now to have their own anthem. Land of Hope and Glory and Jerusalem are about the closest to been accepted generally.
The British and Irish Governments do a nice little job of spinning things for the ignorant masses.
Small minded GAA fuck wits ? Where is the game on again ?
English people are embarassed to not have their own anthem but it’s not presented that way though is it now.
Twenty, you’ve let yourself down on this one and missed the point.
Disappointed. ( I know you don’t give a fuck though)
February 24th, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
Me, I’d re-form the Sex Pistols and get Johnny Lydon and the boys to give it a lash. Now there was an Irish band worth its salt.
To be honest, I care not one iota about what ditty a bunch of egg-chasing, no-neck, latent homosexual homophobes choose to preface their futile activities prior to having soapy fun with wet towels in a communal bath. Whatever their national hue, they’re all part of the global bourgeoisie to me and the main problem with rugby union is the lack of on-pitch fatalities.
February 24th, 2007 @ 8:17 pm
Liam, is a latent Queer with a Mother fetish!!!!
February 24th, 2007 @ 8:48 pm
God save the Queer
February 25th, 2007 @ 12:41 am
2 things.. first .. as with all things there are urban legends. God save the queen was never played during the special Olympics. In fact neither was Amhrain na bhfiann.
The Special Olympics World Games espouses non-nationalistic virtues. Neither national flags nor national anthems are played at the games or at the medal ceremonies. When them team paraded through Croke Park they carried symbols of their country as opposed to their national flag.
During medal ceremomies, the anthem of the games “May We Never Have To Say Goodbye” was played during medal ceremonies (interestingly enough I heard it many times in Croker afterwards at GAA matches)
Secondly I love this photo. It so shows what’s wrong with those objecting to Croker…http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/graphics/2007/02/25/srfron250207.jpg
February 25th, 2007 @ 1:24 am
My compromise suggestion was to to make them sing God Save the Queen in Irish….
A Dhia Sabhail an Banríonn…or something
February 25th, 2007 @ 1:25 am
That photo is class.well spotted Tricia.
February 25th, 2007 @ 5:11 am
I have a friend who shagged one of the Saw Doctors.
Erm…that’s all I have to say, really. I shouldn’t even have access to a computer right now. I’m really very tired.
February 25th, 2007 @ 6:41 am
Well, maybe they could be allowed to only play half of God Save the Queen – incidentally, what does the queen need saving from?
It’s a pretty poor song so far as anthems go, if I had to go out and face the world’s best athletes, I’d be wanting to listen to maybe some Rammstein or something with a bit more oomph – wouldn’t you? I wonder if the playing of dreary songs before the match is meant to put off the opposition, put them to sleep or something – you see it could all be strategic-like y’know?
February 25th, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
I can see why the UN must be knocking down your door to proclaim you as a Goodwill Ambassador anyway …
February 25th, 2007 @ 12:29 pm
And you’re all wrong: Liam G is in fact Michael Greenan – former GAA Ulster Council shitstirrer in chief – in disguise.
He just copied that entire comment from his blog anyway, thus showing similar levels of insipid unoriginality as Greenan.
February 25th, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
The Queen is decended from Irish royalty apparently, and what did the lads from Norn Iron sing yesterday?
The Soldiers Song? If Ireland perform like that when they play God Save the Queen then who gives a fuck?
February 25th, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
Frankly, I think that by merely playing ‘God Save the Queen’ at Croke
Park, we didn’t go nearly far enough in making the visiting sports fans feel at home. I personally feel that we could have done much more to pay tribute to their sovereign royal family.
For example, considering that this is the tenth anniversary year of the death of Diana, we could have honoured her memory by driving a car into one of the Port Tunnel’s pillars at 80mph with lets say, Celia Ahern inside.
February 25th, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
The Queen is German and her husband is Greek,and have you seen the state of her kids?
Thats why they ask God to save her.
Poor old bint she has a hard old life.
What with most of the sports teams representing her being shit cos her anthem doesnt inspire them.
I’d say she can hardly eat her roast swan with foie gras and goldleaf stuffing for feeling sorry for herself
February 25th, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
Why would anyone sing a song about Elton John at a rugby match? Or at any manly sporting event at all!
February 25th, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
That is highly disrespectful Lung the Younger.
there were 3 other people in that car.
2 died and 1 was seriously injured.
If you want to pay tribute in a proper fashion
you should put Michael McDowell,Sean Haughey and Dermot Desmond in the car aswell
February 25th, 2007 @ 11:05 pm
Leave poor oul’ Sean alone. That insufferable little cunt Dick Roche would be a far better choice to be smeared across a bollard like a Graham Nuttle painting….
February 25th, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
Its a merc not a minibus although even that wouldnt be big enough to fit all the cunts in.i suppose you could put dick roche in the boot but its up to Lung the Younger its his gig.
February 26th, 2007 @ 5:08 am
Martin Cullen could be strapped to the front of it, if there was no room inside.
For good measure, since he goes nowhere without at least three press officers, you could strap them to the fender too.
February 26th, 2007 @ 8:48 am
My apologies to scorchio for not fully appreciating the sacrifice of the other poor passengers on that fateful day. And yes, by all means we should fill in the extra places in the merc with other suitable candidates because in doing otherwise, we would not be fully honouring the Saxe-Coburg-Gothe (a.k.a. Winsor) dynasty. However with all these suggestions for addeed passengers, this is beginning to look like Ayrton Senna meets the Keystone Cops. Lets be civilised about this gentlemen and settle on three likely lads that we would like to see stuck in mangled wreckage.
On another note, the merc does seem a little ostentatious, wouldn’t you agree? It smacks of insincerity. A more humble vehicle might be more adequate for such a solemn undertaking. I’ve got this mate from Arklow who could score us a 1983 Ford Granada for next to nothing. He’s a bit doubtful about it hitting 80mph but this leads us neatly to my next idea for a giant slingshot………
February 26th, 2007 @ 9:26 am
Scorchio – stop using my website in your comments.
February 26th, 2007 @ 9:28 am
Some excellent ideas to fill the car though.
Barry Egan has to go in. He just has to.
February 26th, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
GAA fuckwits
very few in the GAA have or had any problem with God Save the Queen
it seemed to be mostly soccer jersey wearing fools who had the problem, maybe you should re write that “besides being small-minded FAI fuckwits”
Ya fucking fuckwit
February 26th, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
Ahh, they’re all fuckwits. And I can guarantee you some of the GAA people I used to know in times past would have been spitting about it.
But I take your point – the pic Tricia posted above is a perfect illustration of it.
February 26th, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
Indeed, a classic.
February 26th, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
“he goes nowhere without at least three press officers, you could strap them to the fender too.”
Skinner, Can I strap the spin doctors to the fender? I’d do a very thorough job…
February 26th, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
If we have international games we have to play the other team’s national anthem, whatever we think of the lyrics. In most cases, we wouldn’t have the vaguest clue what the words of the French, Italian or Argentinean anthems mean. As for God Save the Queen, as the head of one of the most dysfunctional families on the planet, does she not need a bit of divine aid? Anyway, fifteen Irish people were massacred by the English in Croke Park in 1921 and we massacred fifteen English there last Saturday. I bet many English will henceforth call the place “Croak Park”. And not a shot fired! Let’s call it quits and move on.
February 26th, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
The English were good enough to give us a language.
The very least we can do to show our gratitude would be to play “God save the Queen” at ALL sporting events in this country.
Brigadier General Sir Raymond Luxury-Yacht O.B.E.
February 26th, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
DailyMagnet, the trussing of the PRO’s is in your hands!
February 26th, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
An 83 Granada the bank robbers favourite,or was that a Cortina? anyway sounds good but for effect the car should be in flames.this could pose a problem with the slingshot,but im sure some bright spark can figure it out.I think its great how the death of Diana has brought so many of us together.God save her.oh yeah a bit late for that
February 27th, 2007 @ 3:01 am
Bring on the Pogues, I say!
March 19th, 2007 @ 10:03 am
Well looking back on the final score 43-13
They should have been singing “God save the Team”