For one reader, Zombie’s growing dominance in Irish sport represents a kind of Limerick imperialism
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“Dear Frankie,” he writes. “I wish to bring to your attention a movement in sporting circles determined to replace the ‘Fields of Athenry’ at major events, both here and abroad, in favour of ‘Dreams’ and ‘Zombie’.“This can’t be allowed to happen! Athenry depends on this song for its existence as a major historical tourist attraction.
The link was another prominent New Ross family, by the name of Graves, whose home was in the local townland of Annefield. Mind you, both club and stadium were still some years away then. And a possible problem with the New Ross theory is that variations of the name Anfield existed in Liverpool long before Graves arrived.
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