{"id":572433,"date":"2026-07-28T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/572433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:37:16","slug":"the-saw-doctors-mayo-anthem-soars-to-top-of-spotify-charts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/572433\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saw Doctors\u2019 Mayo anthem soars to top of Spotify charts &#8211; news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> \u2018The Green and Red of Mayo\u2019 has been ringing in the ears of most Mayo fans since Sunday and Saw Doctors\u2019 ode to the county has shot to the top of the Spotify charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Galway band\u2019s song boomed around Croke Park at the final whistle of the All-Ireland Final and was sung wholeheartedly by thousands at last night\u2019s homecoming in Castlebar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The anthem now tops the Spotify charts in Ireland more than 30 years after its original release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8216;The Green and Red of Mayo\u2019 was written in 1990 after the band had played a festival on Clare Island, off Mayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt was beautiful weather, a cloudless, warm sunny day,\u201d Ollie Jennings, the band\u2019s manager, told The Journal. \u201cWe started writing a poem on the boat with Gerry Mulholland. Davy put music to it, and we had a song shortly afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The Green and Red of Mayo\u2019 has been ringing in the ears of most Mayo fans since Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-572433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}