Ireland's Euro 2016 song should be done by someone English whose grandparents were Irish... Ed Sheeran

It’s time to focus. We wasted too much time on the Eurovision. 

It was pointless, literally. Ireland will always be behind the curve of the competition’s taste. This year’s song was fine. But how were we to know that supermarket music was out of fashion and Ukraine could win with a song about Russians invading your home and killing you all? Next year we can send the Wolfe Tones singing ‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’ but by then the zeitgeist will have moved onto Peace or wolves in dungarees.

Our efforts should have been directed into a far more worthwhile task: Creating the definitive football song for the Euro 2016 in France.