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Thread #51924   Message #793950
Posted By: belfast
30-Sep-02 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: Are lyrics offensive
Subject: RE: Are lyrics offensive
It is sometimes hard to know exactly where the offence lies. When Christy Moore recorded "The Time Has Come" it received extensive airplay on RTE. When someone told them that it referred to the last meeting between Peggy O'Hara and her son, the hungerstriker Patsy O'Hara, they banned it. The words of the song had not changed.

On the other hand "one Sunday morning as I was going mass etc" mentioned earlier is simply and obviously offensive to anyone catholic, protestant or atheist. Is this being politically correct? Perhaps. It's also stating the obvious.