Fairytale of New York: Singing and dancing inside Shane MacGowan's funeral 

absolutely love this

Totally...a celebration of your love involves love, laughter, tears...❤❤💔

Gotta love the Irish, best people ever! RIP Shane love from a Scottish fan 🇮🇪💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 xx

Sinead Connor seriously funeral than a wedding or dancing like this irish star 🌟 men it's better Sinead o Connor option number 1 st

Funerals are much better than weddings. I’m Irish

That would have been tame lol

That's Irish soul. Love these people ❤

I'm smiling through the tears. Rest in peace, Shane and thank you for the music!

It’s meant to be a catholic funeral not a bloody circus . Absolute disgrace

@@Beanbag777they haven’t turned a funeral into a circus, just playing a fantastic tribute to Shane. Shane’s wife would have decided that’s what Shane would like, or maybe he decided himself. I think it’s lovely.

Wait for the backlash from the last of the altar rail eater's,who most do so bc they got wrong things on their mind,when i was young i ended up in mass with me folks was made go for communion when some person a lay person tryed to give me the wafer body of Christ i told her to stick it id wait for priest and remebered me Da beside me,his f*ckin gonna leather me,no he says im waiting for priest also,didnt know about the sexual abuse cases at that stage or i would told the priest to stick it also🎉

Me too, spectacular & I'm sure Shane was watching...

Irish do funerals like no other culture

We celebrate and laugh at funerals and cry at weddings 😂

Touché....

I just wonder if Shane knew how much he was loved by everyone, fantastic tribute to one of Ireland's legends❤ RIP SHANE

Certainly not everyone. He was an IRA supporting scumbag.

Easy to say.... harder to do mate. Harder to do. Heres to the legends. Gone...... never forgotten.

❤

Same Its just a swear, in character, clearly not meant to be bigoted and those are HIS lyrics.

Hear hear.

Yep

Original

It was a word used to describe someone acting stupid ...and was the context used in the song not the other version ....

Elvis is dead?

How on earth was this guy a hero ?

@@gunzninHis lyrics speak for themselves

@@user-el9wh5pd3nElvis couldn’t write or compose songs.

@@bid84 How do his lyrics make him a hero ?

omg .. that was the best .

So so True !!!!! I cry😭😭😭 Shane you were my Irish Hero🇮🇪🍀💚🫶

Two dif version to celebrating the good bye .Sadly and also very nice .

Yes thank you sensible normal people in a mad world!! The words were meant to be like that, it’s in the context of the song, not to cause offence or menace to anyone. Well done nice to hear it again as it was!!! Bring it back originally 😊😊❤❤

respect gb news bbc take note

@@peterdavies1036 well bbc like sky are under the control of the people in small circular hats surely you know this by now

@@peterdavies1036 They say that if you say “BBC” in the mirror three times, Riley Reid turns up in your bathroom.

😂yes tku GB news from the emerald isle☘️☘️💚💚

You covered Irish *and* punk with that one .... .. ( *MAITH THÚ!!* )

Being local I was lucky enough to be there and in Nenagh town afterwards. A true celebration. Well said you, great and true words.

@LadyBGoode-gr8wm You sound a bit gullible.

​@@LadyBGoode-gr8wm​ ?? It's okay not to be anything other than who you are. Punk was for everyone, that was the beauty of it.

I will just say there is a saying ,, if u have nothing nice to say , say nothing ..

He still will ,if you need him just listen and heal ❤💚💚

One is not born in Ireland 🇮🇪 IRELAND 🇮🇪 is born in THEM .

@padraiglocke8844.best of luck today and always, from Dublin... Xx 🍀💚🇮🇪

@padraiglocke8844 why not go back to Ireland?

I feel you all the way across the Atlantic. I am a Paddy in Luxembourg and sharing similar feelings. The music will live forever

That's part of what being Irish is!

What a bizarre and completely asinine thing to say. You must be either Protestant or just a typical ignorant anti-Catholic secularist bigot. Catholic churches are already places of joy and happiness, because they are places of prayer and reverence. Dancing and non-liturgical music is perfectly fine for the after party at the pub or at family houses. And all of your predictable, nasty rhetoric about “muh sex scandals” or whatever other nonsense is just pure, pure ignorance. I know how much you all just despise this, but, Shane Patrick MacGowan was a Catholic. He prayed daily, received holy communion, and received last rites just before he reposed. You people are doing what you always do so remarkably well, making the man’s funeral about the one thing that you care about most - yourselves. Rest in the arms of our Lord Jesus Christ and the most Blessed Virgin, Shane. ✝️🙏

...except for by Irish priests flexing their disapproval as always!

I love the way Germans understand our culture we get a lot of Germans visiting my area I love them and they will always talk and listen you have beautiful people and the smartest 🥃🥂☘️✌️

@@DaithiONUALLAIN-ow3es oh yes we have a deep love for irish ....irish a very popular in Germany....we always supported a united Ireland....I 've been in Ireland and never met such warmhearting people like the wonderful irish.........did you know that irish monks brought christianity to us germanic saxons......Kilian is the saint of Würzburg ......God bless Ireland may your nation will be united one day....🇩🇪🇮🇪🙏😍

Ruhe in frieden shane ich trage dich immer in herzen godbless Ireland 🍺🍺🍺❤️❤️❤️

​@@DaithiONUALLAIN-ow3es❤

As a 66 year old man I cried like a baby watching this send off.people dancing around a coffin in the church and all the original lyrics been sung........that female nailed it .....And Glen Hansard never sounded better,...Mind blowing

No bad words in this mate

​@@robchap6304Well, other than the gay community's "n word," but honestly in the context of the song I don't find it the least bit offensive.

@@letthereberock1that word originally meant someone who was stingy and cheap, not someone who was gay. They aren’t being homophobic by saying the word because she’s calling her boyfriend stingy with his gifts and missing the point of Christmas before they realize the real meaning later in the song.

Thanks from Dublin The Republic Of Ireland 🇮🇪🇪🇺

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

We in Ireland, love the great bard of Wales, Dylan Thomas 🇮🇪🎄🙏

@@raygreen5926ahh xxx great taste

Cheers from Co Clare !!

Yes fantastic send off for Shane 👏👏👏

Nobody cares where You’re from

With the president there in the first row too!

It's the worst of all time.

@@tastypymp1287 you are a muppet

The boys of the NYPD singing the GALLOWAY BAY when the BELLS 🔔 were ringing out for Xmas 🤶 😂. RIP SHANE & KIRSTY.

​@@tastypymp1287get back in your phial, you pox.

​@@Carolinel673Galway

he was born in kent england

Can't we share him. ENGLISH BIRTH IRISH BLOOD. RIP Shane

Many great Irish people born in England

beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Danke 😊

Danke 👏 🇮🇪

And Sinéad

@@user39h2j8il that is a reunion I'd love to hear.

We have never bowed to the change in lyrics here in Ireland! It was sang as it should be.

Horrid song. Deeply subversive.

@@miriamhenry140 Leo and co are working on that. Mary Lou will further it.

Listen again. They changed the lyrics, and nobody cares much, only GBnews paranoid snowflakes.

With Sinead sneaking in the odd duet too😅

What a fantastic picture i have in my minds eye of shane and kirsty dancing in the clouds wow great words ☘️💚🤍💛

Christmas

The most honest too 😅

We like Germans and your rich culture too. Best wishes from Eireann 🙏🌞🕊️

It starts with one and is contagious, be proud and if anyone says you shouldn't just say to them what Shane would say “Go and Fuck off” 🇮🇪🇩🇪

Dec 20th is early😊

At the after party, yes, certainly. Not during the requiem mass. Notice that the only ones dancing were just a few people in the very front row. That was it. That isn’t usually allowed, but it was probably permitted by the priest given the emotional atmosphere and that fact that it was a spur of the moment type thing. Try to remember that MacGowan was a pretty faithful catholic who prayed and took holy communion regularly. With all due respect, a lot of you are making his funeral less about his soul and more about yourselves. Catholics and Orthodox Christians do not have funerals as a “celebration of life”; they are meant for time of deep prayer to assist the soul through the death process. If any of you reading this are catholic, please have mass intentions said for the repose of his soul. Before anything else, he was and still is a child of God. The man deserves this.

Even though he was English😂😂

​@@skollybob...and youre Japanese.

And that's why he had an Engligh flag on his coffin!!

@@annegalway4371 born in Kent, English

@@skollybob you can take the man out of Ireland, but not Ireland out of the man...

It just did.

Has it really ???? 🎉😂😅

@@Funkeefairy yep

Exactly how he wanted it

​@@shane710310000% sure of that ! I hope from the bottom of my heart that Shane could have seen that live from the Paradise 🕊🫶💚🍀🇮🇪😭

So true 👍

Yes exactly how it should be!!! Perfect!!! It was meant to tell the story of how it was a true example of the song, should NEVER have been ‘updated’ it’s in the context of the song, no menace was ever intended.

No they didn't, not that it matters much.

his words were so lovely. i’ve never heard better. ❤

Priest was father Pat Gilbert a great man who also rides a motorbike how cool is that

Father pat he is not long here lovely man. It’s not a cathedral it’s a church not quite big enough for that. But we in nenagh have great pride in it

Shane needs our prayer!🙏

Beautiful how? He was a disgraceful degenerate.

fantastic

Shane would have been chuffed and no doubt shed a few tears over the huge turn out of people sending him off in a beautiful way

I hope he saw it.

Lots of Irish love Liverpool.

Thank you from Ireland 🇮🇪.

And more❤ from Dublin

@@55ablebof thank you friend

Blessings from ireland 🇮🇪 🙏

Its not its too irish 😂

I agree the best Christmas song my far!!

Well said 👏

Thank you, I was lucky to be in the church , it was simply incredible , a concert I would have gladly paid to attend 💚💚💚

Excellent coverage thank you!!!!

Much thanks GB news . From Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤

Yes thanks great coverage 👍

Yes we germans love the irish so much...❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🇮🇪

👋👋 Could you Tell me thé name of this song please (I'm french)and I know but I love

A bit confused there I think, Religion suppresses people, not a church structure.

​@@leannecampbell4551As it should. Look what happens without it....

@@tastypymp1287 without it is what Ireland has turned into. Ireland has turned her back on God.

Without God means without consequence

​@user-zu6qn9ux9n I can assure you, the Irish have not turned there backs on God, though yes they have turned there backs on the church, and if you know your history, you would know why

This is how us scousers are with our loved ones funeral. My husbands was the same. We had the wake at 1pm through till the early hours. Singing dancing remembering his life. We are descendants of our Irish grandparents as well as our Scottish & Welsh grandparents. So maybe that’s why we do this for our loved ones who pass away. Xx💖💙🙏🏻

beautifully ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I hope you right. I would like to look young when I come back to haunt my nrighbour from hell😂

​@@mauraorourke9849😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂