While I find it interesting that so many people have such to say about this lovely song, saying it is "sad" because the Irish have already "achieved the status" of being a Nation is downright uninformed, to be kind. How can you possibly assert that the Irish are a "Nation Once Again" when the north eastern 6 counties are being held hostage by Blair and Paisley? How can a country and a people (and I do passionately include the Protestants in the northeast in this) be united if there are still borders within the one island that create false separations? Two currencies and two governments does not make a "Nation Once Again."

A lesson in civics, history and land usage is in order my dear "Strupag."

To Coyote Breath (guess who this is!?) and Belfast: While I agree with Tony K that the poll was a bit ragged being so very spread out among so few votes and so many songs, Belfast is right; you could not vote multiple times unless you had multiple computers at multiple locations. SO... small numbers aside, this vote was about as legit as you can get. And wasn't it really about keeping "Believe" by Cher out of the top spot? How is it rigging to ask your friends to all vote? Isn't that what democracy is about? Doing what people you agree with do to try and effect no change whatsoever?

I am pleased with this song's place, though agree that the Wolfe Tones version is not as nice as the version I heard myself in Lenadoon on St. Pat's Day last year. Rather more rousing with 300 men, women and children belting it out with feeling.

Slan,

-Eire32