Seanad debates

Wednesday, 5 November 2003

10:30 am

Photo of Feargal QuinnFeargal Quinn (Independent)

I was raising it only to make the point that another sport in which I have taken an interest, as have many others, in recent weeks is rugby. I was impressed at the response to Ireland's Call instead of the national anthem, by those who played rugby in Australia last week, and again this weekend, and the way the Thirty-two Counties' anthem was being used. I wonder if it is time to rethink our national anthem. I am a great lover of our national anthem. At Croke Park, I love to hear it sung so well as Gaeilge. When we come to a point of having a Thirty-two Counties anthem, should we have a rethink? I am not sure if this is a job for the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism.

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