‘After All’ and a trip to London to play on ‘Top of the Pops’ with Paul McCartney

The Young Offenders have revived interest in the Frank and Walters’ classic hit. Here, the band recall their eventful journey in 1993.

It has to go down as one of the great comedic moments on Irish television: a brilliant acapella rendition of a 25-year-old hit single, led by a psychopath in a vest, whose knife doubles as a microphone and a conductor’s baton.

Billy Murphy, lovable headbanger from the hit TV series The Young Offenders, has single-handedly brought ‘After All’ to number one on one of the iTunes charts, generating extensive airplay along the way, in an age when digital downloads are two a penny and competition for the top spot has never been as fierce.