Galway Girl

Sorry, last thing.

Ed Sheeran was there singing Galway Girl.

Uh, Ed wasn't even invented.

Okay, that bit I just made up.

We love to see it to some extent.

But that has to go deeper than just singing Galway Girl and, you know, kind of going to a couple of kneecap gigs and sitting up the back.

Like it has to be about understanding why the historical context of the Irish people involves support for causes like what's happening in in in Palestine and sort of like standing up for oppressed people who are sort of you know suffering at the hands of violent colonizers you can't just kind of step in take the little bits you like and then walk away and you also can't surround yourself with Irish artists who are always going to lead with their values and then expect them to just sort of capitulate and sit silently in the background when someone comes and behaves in a way that is an absolute affront to their way of being.

So I thought that she was great in the way that she talked through this with Jordan and also just She just has such a reasonable way of presenting herself.

C, absolutely not.

Or D, you can, but you, if you ask for Galway Girl or Whiskey in the Jar, the musicians may suddenly forget how to speak English or launch into an aggressive 12-minute-long instrumental reel out of spite.

Gonna definitely go with the don't do Galway Girl out of spite version.

You are correct.

All right.

[audience applauding] Don't request Galway Girl.

Your correct answers just gave $300 to Beloved Asheville.

All right.

You know she played a fiddle in an Irish band, but she fell in love with an English man.

Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by the hand, said, "Baby, I just wanna dance with my pretty little Galway girl." You're my pretty little Galway girl.

Hey.

You know she beat me at darts and then she beat me at pool, and then she kissed me like there was nobody else in the room.

You know she played a fiddle in an Irish band, but she fell in love with an English man.

Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by the hand, said, "Baby, I just wanna dance.

My pretty little Galway girl.

My-my-my-my-my-my-my Galway girl.

Yeah.

Ed, your song, The Galway Girl.

Some people are asking, why did you pick a Galway Girl? And why wasn't it a Mayo Girl?

Well, that was the name of the song.

Yeah, him and

Sharon can go and sing Galway Girl together.

Yeah, exactly.

It reflects very badly.

like he's he's never gonna gain back the like fandom of Irish people like we do not forget you know

and people were I saw some funny kind of memes about people just being like I thought Galway girl was the worst thing you did to Ireland but like now it's this but what an idiot though like he's played Croke Park here like you know he wears Ireland's jersey yeah like

Ireland is a huge part of his fan base and like I'm sorry but it's gone no I'm good not that he'll notice but I unfollowed him

yeah he's like wow Ali remember I told you that I actually don't regret it anymore that when I was at Arthur's Day back in the day like 2011 I was kind of told to get the Saturdays because Una Healy was there and it was like a red carpet and before they were coming up this Asian country was like oh we have this like up-and-comer do you want to interview him and he was like standing right in front of me and I was like no like I'm waiting for Saturdays and it was Ed Sheeran did I ever tell you that story no and he was right in front of me and I was like oh no but like I was working in a newspaper I was told I had to get them and they were right behind him so I was like oh no whatever and then he performed that day and literally two weeks later it became like the biggest that