THIS TWEET FROM the Wicklow-East Carlow TD Andrew Doyle this evening has been all of us, right?

You want to do the right thing, you want to support the reboot of Do They Know It’s Christmas (and you remember buying it on vinyl first time round).

andrew @ADoyleTD @ADoyleTD

We’re not sure if the TD has managed to get beyond ‘trying to download’ the new charity version. Or if that’s a tech help desk on the other end of his landline.

But we appreciate the sentiment.

(One note to Andrew: the single hasn’t been recorded yet.)

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