Louis Walsh floats idea of Mayo song with All-Ireland winners on RTÉ
It does not come as a surprise that the historic All-Ireland win by the Mayo GAA football team this year to end a 75-year-wait is inspiring artists to become creative. Famous music producer Louis Walsh, himself a Mayo man, has come up with an idea himself.
Walsh spoke this Tuesday morning on the RTÉ Radio One Oliver Callan Show. And he the host commented: “You are a Mayo man, even you were consumed by the GAA this summer.”
“Oh, it was unreal,” Walsh replied: “Because everyone said they weren’t going to win. And I was reading about that guy, Joe Brolly every week slagging them off. And I was thinking, how can these guys read this and go home and be positive.”
“You want to do a song?” asked host Callan. “I would. If they wanted to. We could absolutely make a song and make an awful lot of money for a charity,” Walsh replied.
Walsh continued saying, it would work with the team. “We’d get enough good singer. We’d get a good producer.”
Callan then retorted: “Some of them were singing in Castlebar (at the homecoming)!”
Walsh was quick off the mark to say: “Have you ever heard of backing singers?” To which both laughed.
“I know there’s one really good singer on the Mayo team. He sings Country music. He’s a friend of my brother’s in Mayo. This player sings Garth Brooks.”
Walsh clearly referred to Breaffy man Aidan O’Shea who is known to perform Country music.
The famous music producer, who hails from from Kiltimagh, even weighed in, that he would maybe get Phil Coulter to produce the song.