Classic hit from The Cranberries’, Zombie, has been voted the Greatest Irish Song Ever by the listeners of Radio Nova!
Ahead of this Bank Holiday Weekend here on Nova, we counted down the 50 Greatest Irish Songs, as voted by you guys!
Over this St Patrick’s Day Weekend, you have voted, and we have listened, with The Cranberries coming out on top with Zombie.
The band fronted by the late Dolores O’Riordan, fended off stiff competition to win this, from fellow Irish icons including Sineád O’Connor, Aslan, U2, Phil Lynott and more.
Zombie was one of two Cranberries tracks to feature in the top 10 of this top 50 list, with Dreams coming in at number 8 overall.
It is a song which some of you may have even belted out while watching the Boys in Green at last year’s Rugby World Cup in Paris!
Zombie was released on 3 October 1993, and featured on the band’s second album ‘No Need To Argue’, selling 17 million copies following its release.
Last October, the song even reached one billion streams on Spotify.
It was originally written by the late Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan, and is one of the most iconic hits from an Irish artist ever.
Thanks to everyone who voted and got in touch about this!
Top 50 Greatest Irish Songs Ever
1. Zombie, Cranberries
2. Where The Streets Have No Name, U2
3. Dancing in the Moonlight, Thin Lizzy
4. Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O Connor
5. Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol
6. Crazy World Aslan
7. Old Town, Phil Lynott
8. Take me to Church Hozier
9. Dreams, Cranberries
10. I Don’t like Mondays, Boomtown Rats
11. Whiskey in a Jar, Thin Lizzy
12. One, U2
13. Run, Snow Patrol
14. Days Like This, Van Morrison
15. Mandinka, Sinead O Connor
16. Great Defector, Bell X 1
17. Teenage Kicks, Undertones
18. Bad, U2
19. Brewing Up a Storm Stunning
20. Mary, 4 Of Us
21. This is, Aslan
22. Rainy Night In Soho The Pogues
23. National Express Divine Comedy
24. Parachute Something Happens
25. Where’s Me Jumper, Sultans of Ping
26. Dirty Old Town The Pogues
27. Beautiful Day, U2
28. High Hopes Kodaline
29. Fake The Frames
30. Hey Day, Mic Christopher
31. Derge Doom Horslips
32. Celebrate Emotional Fish
33. Don’t Go Hothouse Flowers
34. Vertigo, U2
35. Mustang Sally Commitments
36. Don’t believe a word, Thin Lizzy
37. After All Frank and Walters
38. Still Got The Blues, Gary Moore
39. A Good Heart Fergal Sharkey
40. Brightside Of the Road Van Morrison
41. I Used to Love Her Saw Doctors
42. San Diego Song Coronas
43. Linger Cranberries
44. Still Haven’t found what I’m looking for U2
45. 4 th of July, Mundy
46. Rat Trap Boomtown Rats
47. Speeding Cars, Walking On Cars
48. We Could Be Lovers Royseven
49. Boys are Back In Town, Thin Lizzy
50. Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
