Looks to me like it needs a 9/8 tune like "Fy let us a' to the bridal" (which, at least in Scotland, was often used for satirical songs like that).

This is another tune that was used in Scotland for songs about hard times and being skint. This version is rather elaborately instrumental, but strip out some of the twiddles and it'll fit your words perfectly (start with the chorus). I presume there's an Irish version of it.

X:1
T:Maggie's Tocher
Z:Jack Campin: "Embro, Embro", transcription (c) 2001
F:17riot/abc/TocherOC.abc
S:Orpheus Caledonius I xxix
M:9/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=92
K:G Dorian
A|(BA)B (cB)A (BA)G |(^FG)A A2G   FED| BAB (cB)c d2d |DGG G2A BAG    |
   F2f (fg)f (f_e)d| c2B (AB)G ^F2D| D2g g2a (ba)g|d2g g2a b2(a/g/)|
   f2f   fgf (f_e)d| c2B (AB)G ^FED|(BA)B cBc d2d |DGG G2A BAG    |]