WATCH: Cork City poem highlights passion for local football

And now a rhyme and verse tribute has been paid to the addiction and frustration, as well as pride and devotion, of following the resurrected club.

By Stephen Barry

Cork City FC have gone from the brink of extinction to European football in five long years.

And now a rhyme and verse tribute, 'Passion', has now been paid to the addiction and frustration, as well as pride and devotion, of following the resurrected club.

Cork City bug, it bites like a drug,

Sufferance and frustration, from here to damnation.

Club secretary Darren O’Keeffe has put this transformation into a few words, capturing the variety of emotions that come into football fandom in Ireland.

They may not be rich, they may not win often, but “win or lose, rise or fall,” it’s about the volunteers, the community, the families and the next generation.

Someday when we all look down from above,

There’ll be football for us in this city I love.

You can watch the full rendition here, in a video put together by International Emmy-nominated director Mairtín de Barra:

Also worth watching is the recent Copa90 video about the fall and rise of Cork City FC: