Sporting Anthem
'Molly Malone' is best associated with Dublin GAA. In the 2000s the song was adopted by Leinster Rugby and it has become their Anthem.
The song is also sung by supporters of Columbus Crew, Doncaster Rovers, Gillingham, Reading and the Irish Rugby Team.
Wealdstone F.C. supporters adopted the song in the early 1970s as an anthem with subtly changed lyrics:
- In London's fair city, where the girls are so shitty,
- I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
- As she wheeled her wheelbarrow, through Wealdstone and Harrow,
- Cried ***clap-clap-clapclapclap-clapclap-clapclap*** "WEALDSTONE!"
Ever since it has become traditional for any Wealdstone fan when visiting the fair city of Dublin, to make a pilgrimage to the famous statue of Molly in Grafton Street to "set their eyes" on "sweet Molly".
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“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)