The Wolfe Tones, Late Late Show Debate, RTE - Part 3

[@mobilegoat1]

To quote Liam Clancy , history is written by the conquerors of a country , folk songs are sung by the downtrodden and usually tell the truth .

[@jgdooley2003]

This is a salient truth about folk songs and what I would term vernacular lyricism. The writing of songs by ordinary people about events that have happened and continue to happen to the powerless and educationally unconnected people of Ireland and all over the world. What is powerful about such songs is that it enables ordinary people to search out topics in their history and educate themselves regarding dirty secrets that the establishment would like to hide from the ordinary people.

[@davidkelly7453]

Wolfe tones sing and rejoice in murder of all , they are basically happy to see murder carried out to keep them singing and paying their bills , while many people are fucked up for life through sneaky murders by Marxist extremists .

[@hughieharte1214]

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[@hughieharte1214]

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[@musiciansnight]

I have had the honor of opening for the WolfeTones three times. They are fine gentlemen.

[@missk1942]

Pulling huge crowds at Electric picnic and three sold out nights at the Three Arena in 2024 ! Whats Fintan doing ? Still talking shite ...

[@anthonyhoulihan2685]

Fintan is a clown wolf tones are brilliant and lovely lads saw them a gud few times and hope there around for long time

[@longmemory1620]

Anthony Houlihan Brian Warfield boasted that he wrote songs when things outraged him when he was on the joe duffy liveline show www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A10347004%3A53%3A25%2D11%2D2014%3A he was asked about Jerry McCabe at 58 min 44 sec

[@anthonyhoulihan2685]

And what does any other singer time do I'm a big fan of the wolftones since I was a child I'm 28 still love it great music

[@naisiunnaheireann1752]

@@longmemory1620 fuck your commenting back to everyone ya we try hard orange loyalist basterd tiocfaidh ar la 🍀

[@cantonadeking1]

Best band in the world Seeing them live in the barrowlands has to be the best experience!!!!!!!

[@TirEoghainLad]

Im am offended by Ian O'Doherty. 'the lowest of the low??' I have seen the Tones many times and i am not the 'lowest of the low' Shame on O'Doherty.

[@JohnCenaFan6298]

O Doherty is a hero

[@francisboyle1379]

the Wolfe Tones are a Great Irish Band. up the Ra.

[@longmemory1620]

wait until someone you love is murdered Francis. that will wake you up ?

[@aydenastley9144]

"you called me west British" 😂😂😂

[@lfcspectre4335]

And he is 😂😂😂

[@mcivor321]

He is west British

[@donaldstewart9827]

You are O'Toole.

[@adriankelly3234]

Still West British against everything irish. Stand up.we are irish

[@patrickswayze4893]

I love the tones were going to see them in concert this month 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪❤️

[@thirteenfingers]

"What are you talking about? Are you accusing me of something? Well go to the special branch. If you have information about me that I don't have, you seem to know more about me than I do." Great line! Brilliant. Whether he's telling the truth or not I couldn't care less - that was a fantastic response!

[@lfcspectre4335]

You only condemned one thing Finbar! 😂

[@sayitasitis100]

“Finbarr” O’Toole’s face, priceless 😂😂😂

[@pjduff7577]

"No wonder you got beat up then " 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JohnCenaFan6298]

Yh by ignorant drunks for stating an opinion. It's like laughing at a woman for getting beat up by her husband for abuse. I doubt u would say "no wonder u got beat up"

[@clarebannerman]

I run a Trad.Group on F.B. and one of the entry questions is .....who are your favourite group? I'm not joking from all parts of the world people choose the Wolfe Tones among the three of four top artists that are picked. Like them or hate them they are one of the most popular ever to come out of Ireland and are known and followed throughout the world. I remember when they started out around 1964/65 (I think).

[@jerryoshea3116]

I can't argue with their choice,they're a tremendous band(I've seen them twice)but I back 'The Dubliners ' any day of the week!. And I do have a little Story about the 'Boys,',I u wish to read it!

[@thorplands9]

Loved the bit when O'Toole was called a "know-all". There was a time when people were modest about their book-learning.

[@longmemory1620]

a pathetic bully tactic

[@philruane5910]

The land of our birth we were forced to abandon the laws of the tyrants we would not endure,

[@marxist-leninisttheory8023]

you can't blame the IRA for doing what they did and what they do. As long as the occupation goes on resistance will go on.

[@longmemory1620]

The IRA murdered irish people no better than the brits. The IRA sexually abused people no better than the church. The IRA intimidated witnesses no better than hutch kinahan

[@DarkHallwayz]

BRAD PITT Thats a bunch of blatant bullshit

[@grlfcgombeenhunter2897]

BRAD PITT ok me know it all. Why did they do all that.

[@Cash4gold84]

Trump 2020 you’re a troll show your face coward

[@longmemory1620]

murdering women and children? protecting rapists and pedophiles?

[@billkeane528]

i spent a few hours with tommy in cork back in the late seventies we had a few drinks and chatted and he showed me card tricks great man best night ever and i met him years later in the late eighties in dingle guess what he saluted me out of the crowd he remembered i talked to him a few secs great night that night he said

[@garretttobin7451]

The average Irish person loves the traditional music of the Wolfe Tones, and also their political viewpoint by the way.

[@jimmybhoy]

Legends... The tones...

[@josparkes1]

Great show the WTones are brilliant !

[@Getinnnn]

Hi from Scotland! Love the Wolfe Tones! Just heard a fine rendition of "Flower of Scotland" from Them! If I could, I would put unionism in a HUGE cannon and blast it towards the SUN!!!!! Hope You kick it to HELL out of the North of Your Country soon!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ryanrusch3976]

I know a lot of good interviewers, I am a Historian myself and interviewing is a key part of that, I have never seen someone make baseless claims with zero facts at a group of people and then talk over them when they try to respond. Believe it or not when you show that you have no intention of listening to someone, you get justly verbally harassed, and that’s exactly what happened here. That fuckin guy poked the bear and cried havoc when it attacked him.

[@Cloughjordan23]

I'm very impressed at The Wolfetones for standing their ground against some terribly misinforming journalists on the stage and the one in the crowd. People will believe journalists are speaking with some knowledge on a subject but those then really are one sided and ignorant. I know the history better than them and I'm in the south west of England and unfortunately The 'Tones won't ever becoming to my town-i can virtually guarantee that. Shame.

[@longmemory1620]

the wolfe tones are very selective when they write songs

[@mirianduddridge3161]

H

[@JohnCenaFan6298]

Gay

[@joehiggs100]

6' 47'' - ''Ladies and gentlemen, - I promise you this, that was a lie''. Classic.

[@timpatjoe]

Typical RTE ambush for ratings

[@torquemada3273]

Probably hoped someone would banjo him...jaysus the hideous lump deserved nothing less...he enjoys a wee snort does mr blobby.

[@josparkes1]

What a pratt the host is, Up the Wolfe Tones !

[@jgdooley2003]

Pat Kenny. An ex RTE newcaster and political commentator not known for his sympathetic views on Republicanism of the NI struggle. The tragedy in Ireland is that the people on the frontline of the sectarian divide suffer the most and know the real truth of the NI troubles. People living 90 miles or more away from it do not realise the enormity of what has been done to the nationalist community in NI for the past 100 years.

[@kathleenmcafee365]

Well said Brian they are ignorant you can't change history but they are trying

[@paullinnane8135]

Wolf tones are legends, these scumbags degrading their songs, it's very nasty,

[@shaungaserman]

Hope the lads sued the finbarr for defamation

[@gearoid9835]

4:40 Coke head O'Doherty condemning people for being drunk. Pot, Kettle, Black.

[@EllenBeeBoutique]

I went to one of their shows and the atmosphere scared the cr-p out me. Never again

[@raymccarthy7492]

Well stay at home with your slippers

[@vcrossCelticfc]

B.S Bot

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

Not sure why this conversation happened. They are musicians. I think the group should have come to sing and not got caught in this potatoe fight. If the host and his accomplices pursued as they did, they should have stood up and walked off. It would have made front page news.

[@savedfaves]

It's a complex matter that requires wise calm discussion.

[@thesaint1908]

freedom of speech on both sides everyones entitled to their opinions.

[@longmemory1620]

disagree with the wolfe tones and they call you a know it all

[@trollfinger]

I've been to a Billy Joel concert where people are drunk and idiots.

[@longmemory1620]

does Billy Joel support murder ?

[@BeerNotPizza]

Fintan should join the band and become the 4th Tone. Fintan could play bass, standing there in his suit and glasses, pumping out the bass lines behind Brian, Tommy and Noel.

[@philip3917]

If a group made a living from singing songs about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings , The Shankill Butchers , McGurks bar , Greysteel etc and were then invited on to primetime television , I wonder what the reaction would be .

[@SUSANB2K9]

yet they’re still going strong 💪 🙂

[@grimekitty3381]

GET THE TAPE! Have to know if Fintan is lying, as the WT claims about what was said on the radio.

[@Hyperspeed91]

I want to hurt that fella @ 3:03!...Grrrr!!!

[@longmemory1620]

right there now.. is the IRA mentality

[@thelolguy007]

Yep. He’s an idiot. A West Brit if ever there was one

[@martymartin2894]

@@thelolguy007 and he is still a prick he does be on the tonight show still.

[@Del-yv1qy]

@@longmemory1620 you moron.

[@JohnCenaFan6298]

Lol Wolfe tones got destroyed by that guy in the audience

[@fairphil2890]

I’ve had a few pints with the Wolfe Tones before the show. Great, humble men. Miss seeing them tour every year, but that is life. We get older, we do less, and the English still suck.

[@nathanielgordon5659]

The Irish should be proud of their courageous resistance to foreign rule. This is the mentality that has allowed Ireland to be overwhelmed by migrants. Unfortunately, the future of Ireland will not be Irish, and the heroes of Irish history will have suffered in vain.

[@DavidL999]

@BodyFortress69 Ian O' Doherty could drive even the gentlest of souls into a visceral rage.

[@JohnSmith-ji6lu]

The men behind the wire.

[@denieffe]

How can we move forward when we are always looking back?

[@anthonydonnelly2018]

The clown in the audience after his 15 minutes of fame. He probably plays this on repeat while he plays with himself 😂

[@JoeKinsella-g8k]

😂😂😂

[@MarkRobertCuthbert]

- the "TRUTH" is you are NOT an Irishman. more like ex-RUC

[@mikegan73]

Just because somebody in the crowd at a Wolfe Tone concert had a go at O'Doherty isn't the fault of the band. Total character assassination of the Wolfe Tones by RTE.

[@sgtwack1]

I am not a Drunken fool nor the "lowest of the low"

[@jgdooley2003]

As many Wolfe Tone fans are not fools or drunken. This base tactic is known as gaslighting and is a favoured tactic used by establishment stooges and selectively educated people throughout the ages. If the band was not effective in spreading the word about the fractious and devious nature of Anglo- Irish relations the establishment would treat them with complete indifference. The fact that some of Irelands top journalists treat the band with indgnant hatred, anger and hate shows us how effective their work actually is.

[@AidenWhitty]

Well if you go around calling everyone a drunken fool ............ you'd expect a beating.

[@deniscarberry2608]

Was Ian o doterty planted, think so

[@alanmurphy6264]

Love th e tones

[@dubmait]

most journalists do give a one sided view they only mention the IRA the UVF and UDA barely get a mention however this doesnt make what the IRA did right

[@taraocarroll9302]

Delighted to hear Ian O'Doherty got a hiding. 🙂

[@PatTigue]

He from a knacker bubble wat he sat about the Miami killings ?? He writes for Paul Williams papers pure tits n arse ,wat about the heroine sold in his street go to bed and slim down your ego cas in Belfast no one ever heard of you

[@helenedoran6350]

Please embrace your history

[@BeerNotPizza]

continues...there was huge anger in Ireland over the killing of the 2 kids in Warrington in 1993. A massive demonstration in Dublin took place against the IRA and the Irish President atttended the children's funerals. The IRA started their first ceasefire within a year. The Farc business in Columbia in the late-1990s caused Sinn Fein/IRA huge problems in America,and 9/11 in 2001 changed many attitudes towards terrorism there - now that New York knew what it felt like to be on the receiving end.

[@ringsidejudge4302]

A bit like Gerry Adams and the denials . Take the money off the supporters but never admit the truth .

[@dubmait]

fintan says he wrote about the UVF and the UDA this is probably true however when the troubles are talked about in general the IRA are mentiond the most

[@Homemade574]

West Brits will always have something to say about Irish people saying about their culture

[@fidelservare5852]

Wolfe tonne was a prodestant and fought for an independent Ireland

[@fergalhughes165]

Thank god you included the bit after the "and"

[@Greg2603]

03:00 For this ejit to offend the wolf tones they would, at first, have to respect his opinion 😅😅 What do you think? 🤔

[@BeerNotPizza]

I disagree with what you say. Sinn Fein/IRA never got what they set out to get - a united Ireland. Irish America told the IRA to disarm in 2005 following the Robert McCartney murder and the Northern Bank robbery. Ted Kennedy, the daddy of Irish America, famously said after meeting the McCartney sisters: "no political party can have an armed unit" (yes, Sinn Fein and the IRA are one organisation, for those who didn't know).

[@longmemory1620]

since that late late show debate the IRA have been exposed as sex offenders

[@longmemory1620]

"Sinn Fein/IRA never got what they set out to get" a long time ago the IRA were heroes but then they degenerated into cowards

[@trollfinger]

@dropkickdrop This is from 7 years ago man.

[@jasonsmith4483]

Ian O’Doherty is spot on.

[@longmemory1620]

the most odious people i ever met were IRA supporters

[@sonnymuldoon7050]

West brits the pair of ye

[@clareames]

wat bout the likes of all these bands that have ppl high on drugs etc... a person can get beat up for just lookin at someone the wrong way. its not the music or wolfe tones that makes ppl violent. some ppl just have to make something out of nothing cos it makes them feel important and gets them publicity and myt be a good topic for a debate. the tones will take them on anyday!

[@anthonydonlan3140]

Finton would have said the same thing about the men of 16. Don't make wave's..

[@dmcpromotions]

8th Feb 2002

[@babybobs6]

Oh my god fintan o'toole needs a slap! Why are some people so ashamed of their history? The Wolfe tones are a great band and should be applauded! What annoys me is that they go on about how the IRA killed this many people but yet there's no mention of the UVA, UVF, british army - they've done just as much damage!!

[@longmemory1620]

slap people who disagree with you ?

[@jenbrownlee]

Notice that the Wolfe tone never lived in the north but stayed safely in the south….whilst they supported the IRA

[@denismurray868]

kenny sits idoly by what a joke

[@johnreddington3646]

up ireland 🇮🇪

[@IrishRebel07]

Amen to that brother!

[@BanjoMan1916]

@MrBmw714 sure i went when i was 14 with my bud who was 13 and we made many friends in there. of course you get the fucking eejits but you get them everywhere! no matter where you go!!! wolfe tones are a bit of craic. get of yer selves for christ sake

[@1969JohnnyM]

O'Toole acts like RTE and the Irish Republic ended the tyranny it endured for centuries peacefully, it didn't the IRA ended it. In most countries he'd be called a traitor.

[@alanoconnor371]

John Maddin he is a traitor

[@Del-yv1qy]

and fuckin idiot to boot

[@srfcok]

fuck what anyone else thinks the wolfe tones are a class band

[@againstall6830]

What a pric

[@bannanachops]

Is -it -wrong -to -like -the -Wolfetones -and -Fintan -O -Toole -becuase -I -genuinely -do.....

[@KenfromDublin]

God that Fintan O'Toole lad has serious problems. He was caught out blatantly lying - 'get the tape out and I'll prove I didn't say that' - and he was let off lightly. Having to lie to back up your argument is desperation time and a damning indictment of his integrity as an 'honest' journalist. I'm not surprised though, he was caught out and widely condemned earlier this year for plagiarising another authors work.

[@grlfcgombeenhunter2897]

Fintan is a toole.

[@BeerNotPizza]

Oh arr up the Rangers! Hehe!

[@longmemory1620]

see how quiet they are when he calls them bullies 8:54

[@joshclarkie1194]

Probably something to do with it being an immature comment ‘bullies’ give me a break

[@marieosullivan5048]

Disco infern

[@karlbarry6004]

Tiocadh ar lar

[@soeffingwhat]

@babybobs6 - O'toole is not ashamed of all Irish history, but he is ashamed of the Brutal Murders that took place up North not too long ago, as anyone in their right mind would be. Though of course you are very correct to point out that the UVA and UVF did as much. The British Army, in the earlier Years, did some brutal stuff alright. Bloody Sunday should NEVER have happened, just as much as Bloody Friday should never have happened.

[@longmemory1620]

i was bullied by an IRA supported when i was 16 because i wouldn't sing Up The RA

[@soeffingwhat]

@TheIraRock - are you talking about Ian O'Doherty? He's not a Brit Arselicker at all. Sure he can be a bit of a Prat, but he just offers another opinion. He's only partially correct about the Wolfe tones Audience though, he generalised a bit too much. If he tried and put across a direct point to 2 drunk guys, given his straight-forward 'devil-may-care' attitude, then its not too surprising he got a knocking. I like him though, cos he's not afraid to point his views, arrogant as though he may be.

[@soeffingwhat]

@yam500 Cheers yam500