The Sound of Ireland – Listener Survey 2025

The Sound of Ireland listener survey is your chance to vote for your best of Irish! 
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Best Irish Band Ever?

The Cranberries 279 / 1439

19.39%

U2 339 / 1439

23.56%

Thin Lizzy 169 / 1439

11.74%

Van Morrison 28 / 1439

1.95%

The Pogues 96 / 1439

6.67%

Snow Patrol 55 / 1439

3.82%

Westlife 110 / 1439

7.64%

Enya and Clannad 41 / 1439

2.85%

Sinead O Connor 58 / 1439

4.03%

The Dubliners 264 / 1439

18.35%

Best thing about Ireland?

National obsession with the weather 69 / 1367

5.05%

Our sense of humour and wit 482 / 1367

35.26%

Irish Mammies 157 / 1367

11.49%

The craic 251 / 1367

18.36%

Pubs 55 / 1367

4.02%

Irish slang 25 / 1367

1.83%

World beating sports 22 / 1367

1.61%

Stunning landscapes 212 / 1367

15.51%

Music and arts 74 / 1367

5.41%

Diverse people 20 / 1367

1.46%

Best Irish Slang word?

Gombeen 35 / 1337

2.62%

Eejit 224 / 1337

16.75%

Feck 109 / 1337

8.15%

Craic 235 / 1337

17.58%

Foostering 19 / 1337

1.42%

Culchie 40 / 1337

2.99%

Grand 182 / 1337

13.61%

Galivanting 93 / 1337

6.96%

Notions 60 / 1337

4.49%

Gobshite 340 / 1337

25.43%

Best Irish Song Ever?

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks 44 / 1330

3.31%

Luke Kelly - Raglan Road 177 / 1330

13.31%

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town 98 / 1330

7.37%

Thin Lizzy - The Boys are back in town 86 / 1330

6.47%

The Cranberries - Zombie 220 / 1330

16.54%

U2 Sunday - Bloody Sunday 57 / 1330

4.29%

The Saw Doctors - N17 84 / 1330

6.32%

Aslan - Crazy World 121 / 1330

9.10%

Republic of Ireland Football Squad - Put 'em under pressure! 121 / 1330

9.10%

Enya - Orinoco Flow 42 / 1330

3.16%

Paddy Reilly - The Fields of Athenry 106 / 1330

7.97%

Eleanor McEvoy - A Woman's Heart 19 / 1330

1.43%

Hozier - Take me to church 60 / 1330

4.51%

The Dubliners - Whiskey in the Jar 95 / 1330

7.14%

Best Irish TV show?

Derry Girls 184 / 1140

16.14%

Father Ted 526 / 1140

46.14%

The Late Late Show 79 / 1140

6.93%

Dancing with the Stars 16 / 1140

1.40%

The Tommy Tiernan Show 25 / 1140

2.19%

Zig and Zag/The Den 36 / 1140

3.16%

Nighthawks 8 / 1140

0.70%

Glenroe 42 / 1140

3.68%

Mrs Browns Boys 94 / 1140

8.25%

Love/Hate 107 / 1140

9.39%

Fair City 14 / 1140

1.23%

Ballykissangel 9 / 1140

0.79%

Best Irish expressions?

What's the craic 298 / 1126

26.47%

That's grand 178 / 1126

15.81%

A soft day 19 / 1126

1.69%

Now we're suckin diesel 90 / 1126

7.99%

Where are you galivanting off to 42 / 1126

3.73%

Shut your mouth and eat your dinner 58 / 1126

5.15%

Giving out yards 11 / 1126

0.98%

Sure will ya look it 27 / 1126

2.40%

I will yeah 154 / 1126

13.68%

I'll leave you go 12 / 1126

1.07%

A right messer 2 / 1126

0.18%

Will you go on out of that 31 / 1126

2.75%

Keep her lit 25 / 1126

2.22%

Chancing your arm 25 / 1126

2.22%

How's it cutting 27 / 1126

2.40%

Acting the maggot 91 / 1126

8.08%

Bucketing down 13 / 1126

1.15%

Give it a lash 23 / 1126

2.04%

Best Irish Film?

Once 16 / 1073

1.49%

The Snapper 321 / 1073

29.92%

Brooklyn 65 / 1073

6.06%

The Commitments 230 / 1073

21.44%

My Left Foot 97 / 1073

9.04%

In the name of the father 95 / 1073

8.85%

Michael Collins 149 / 1073

13.89%

Philomena 31 / 1073

2.89%

Sing Street 36 / 1073

3.36%

Belfast 33 / 1073

3.08%

Best Irish Food?

Irish Stew 158 / 1069

14.78%

Soda Bread 87 / 1069

8.14%

Full Irish Breakfast 245 / 1069

22.92%

Breakfast Roll 72 / 1069

6.74%

Bacon and cabbage 156 / 1069

14.59%

Black Pudding 37 / 1069

3.46%

Tayto 145 / 1069

13.56%

Irish Seafood 52 / 1069

4.86%

A pint and a packet of crips 96 / 1069

8.98%

Porridge 21 / 1069

1.96%

Best Irish beverage?

Lyons Tea 212 / 1067

19.87%

Barrys Tea 262 / 1067

24.55%

Guinness 248 / 1067

23.24%

Whiskey 54 / 1067

5.06%

Irish Coffee 48 / 1067

4.50%

Baileys 95 / 1067

8.90%

Irish Cider 35 / 1067

3.28%

Smithwicks 12 / 1067

1.12%

TK Red Lemonade 68 / 1067

6.37%

Cidona 33 / 1067

3.09%

 

 

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