For the Green and Red – a song for Sam 2018

FOR The Green and Red, a song written for the Mayo senior football team by musician Ger Kirrane, is now available to download for free on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-237813236/for-the-green-and-red).

The video for the song, which also contains audio of the commentary from the 1951 final win against Meath, is also available to view on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34b5vTobr2g&t=4s).

The song was produced by Brendan Carthy at the Orchard Studio, Enniscorthy, and features Jay O’Sullivan on fiddle.

“After seeing how close the team came to winning the All-Ireland last September and how proud the supporters were of the players and management for the effort they had put into the season, I wrote this song as an encouragement to keep going. The dream to bring Sam Maguire back to Mayo will never die,” says Ger about how the song originated.

“I do get the irony that I’m a Dub writing a song about the Mayo football team, but I have a strong connection with the county and its supporters over the years. My mother is from Bekan and I have many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends spread throughout the county.

Hopefully their day will come soon!”

Ger is a professional musician, songwriter and teacher. Originally classically trained on the piano through the Royal Irish Academy of Music, he also has a music degree from University College Dublin.

He plays several instruments across a range of musical styles and has toured and gigged with the likes of the Furey Brothers, Gerry O’Connor and several of Ireland’s showbands.

With his own traditional Irish group, Claddagh, he held a residency in Oliver St. John Gogarty’s pub in Temple Bar for over seven years. He has played at festivals both at home and across Europe, including TradFest, Irish Folk Festival in Dusseldorf, Feria de Sevillanas in Torrevieja and the Festival de Musica Irlandese di Roma. The band has played alongside and supported the likes of Bagatelle, the Dublin Legends, the High Kings, Tim Robbins’ Band and many more.

Ger is currently writing and recording his own material for release in 2018.