WTF is the point of playing a track which is far from a performer's best on network radio just because you have a personal soft spot for it for extremely obscure reasons?

What anyone else thinks of it is far from irrelevant if it's being transmitted to millions who might base their opinion of the artist concerned on it, if, as is likely with the DID audience, they've heard nothing else.

In the case of Luke Kelly, this did scant service to his memory.

Whatever. Let's have less of the sentimental claptrap. I'd be considerably more interested in discussion of the joint heritage of song between the two countries as opposed to stupidly false Celticky/Oirish separatism.