Dubliners

"I don’t like what The Dubliners did to it, I don’t like what The Pogues did to it – I think they have lost the loneliness," she said.

Expect a wall of noise from the Dubliners...

You heard the influences in his music, from The Dubliners to The Clash, and you knew that what he was doing was radically new.

The Dubliners popularized the tune 20 years later, but after the Pogues cut the song, “Dirty Old Town” forever became associated with the band.

But under questioning from reporters on Friday morning, he denied that his force had failed to protect Dubliners and their city from the violence.