Why will the Scottish authorities not clamp down on Rangers fans singing the Famine Song?
Author and journalist Phil Mac Giolla Bhain looks at the uncomfortable truth behind the silence. Over the past few weeks I have re-visited the decision that my wife and I took in 1995 in Glasgow to sell up and move to Donegal. When we moved our son Cathal was four his sister Roisin was a baby and we just got news that number three was on the way! It is normal to re-evaluate such a major life decisions, especially when it involves your children. Events this year in Scotland have re-affirmed that the decision was the correct one. Since last April to supporters of Glasgow Rangers have had a new song. To the tune of the “The sloop John B ” the song is aimed at Glasgow’s Irish community who follow Celtic. The song has five verses, here is the first one: I often wonder where they would have been If we hadn’t have taken them in Fed them and washed them Thousands in Glasgow alone From Ireland they came Brought us nothing but trouble and shame Well the famine is over Why don’t they go home? The
