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TODAY FM LISTENERS have chosen Zombie by The Cranberries as the greatest Irish song.
The radio station had been asking listeners to vote on the “100 Greatest Irish songs” and received over 80,000 votes.
The top 10 list has just been announced and The Cranberries take top spot with Zombie and also claim fourth position with Dreams.
Nothing Compares 2 U by the late Sinéad O’Connor comes in second spot, with A Rainy Night in Soho by The Pogues landing third place.
A cover of A Rainy Night in Soho by Bruce Springsteen was released earlier this week.
It will be one of the tracks on 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan, a tribute album to the late MacGowan that will be released in November and will feature an all-star line-up.
Hozier will be one of the guests on the tribute album to MacGowan and he comes in fifth spot on the Today FM list of 100 Greatest Irish songs for his debut single Take Me to Church.
Crazy World by Aslan is ranked sixth, with Brewing Up a Storm by The Stunning landing seventh spot.
Elsewhere, it was released less than two years ago but Killeagh by Kingfishr has landed itself 8th place.
An ode to the home village and GAA club of Kingfishr’s guitarist Eoin Fitzgibbon, Killeagh first reached number one in the Irish charts last May and was also last Christmas’s number one single.
The song by the Limerick trio was also Ireland’s most-streamed song of last year on Spotify.
Meanwhile, The Pogues are featured again in ninth place with Fairytale of New York and U2 round out the top 10 with their single With or Without You.
U2 last month released a politically-charged six-track EP titled Days of Ash and featured a song about the war in Ukraine, as well as a track about the fatal shooting of US woman Renée Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
The countdown took place today during a live broadcast of ‘Ray Foley on Today FM’ from Whelan’s in Dublin.
The live show featured performances from Aslan, Bell X1, Mundy, Sharon Shannon, Tom Dunne from Something Happens and Podge Kilbride.
The Coronas and Róisín O closed the show with ‘Zombie’ in tribute to the late Dolores O’Riordan, who died in 2018 at the age of 46.
The Today FM ‘100 Greatest Irish Songs’ results list can be found in its entirety on todayfm.com/irish
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