01. March 2022
Home is a need of the soul
Danzig, June 14, 2012, shortly before 10.30 pm: Spain and Ireland are facing each other in the group match of the European Championship. It is minute 88 of the match and Spain is far in the well-deserved lead with a score of 4:0. However, the Irish football fans are famous for not letting such an obvious defeat prevent them from celebrating their heroes. Nor from singing. They sing for several minutes, the players have long since left the field. And again and again the fans sing the chorus “Low lie the fields of Athenry" at the top of their voices.