'Fantastic Fermanagh' (Garrison remix)

Garrison (An Garastún in Irish) is a small village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 5 miles south of Belleek, at the eastern end of Lough Melvin.
'Fantastic Fermanagh' is a song written by Garrison born John Farry to celebrate County Fermanagh reaching the Ulster GAA Final. The BBC commentator featured on the video, Mr Gerry Treacy is also from the village of Garrison. The head of Fermanagh GAA, Mr Peter Carty is from Garrison. The Fermanagh team is also sponsored by Garrison born Patsy Tracey from Tracey Concrete. It is said that Fr. Brian Darcy who prays in the video used to get all his petrol from Treacy's Garage in Garrison. The talented songwriter John Farry is best known for writing the Irish entry 'Mysterious Woman' for the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest. One of his earliest compositions, 'Lough Melvin's Rocky Shore' became a hit for the Donegal star, Daniel O'Donnell is also written about a lake outside Garrison. The songtrack of the video above comes from "Sweet Home Alabama" originally performed by Southern US rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping. The guitar used on the track was a 1972 Fender Stratocaster. It was written as an answer to two songs, "Southern Man" and "Alabama" by Neil Young, which attacked the South as racist.

Note* We need to get this video 100,000 hits by the Ulster Final on Sunday 20th July 2008. Please leave comments!

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[HASSARD1994]

Fantastic Fermanagh? You arn't so fantastic anymore haha!!!!

[knockaraven]

There is still the match against Kildare and the quarter final

[aidyanimal]

did you pay royalties to use sweet home alabama

riff

[knockaraven]

In Garrison, they love the governor (boo boo boo)

Now we all did what we could do

Now Watergate does not bother me

Does your conscience bother you?

Tell the truth

[78thesweepstakes]

Good luck to Fermanagh as it has the smallest GAA playing population in Ireland, and is the only county in Ulster to have never won the Ulster Senior Football Championship. We can see from the videos there is a strong GAA tradition in the county, which has gone largely unrewarded. We can emulate the remarkable achievement of the 2004 team in reaching the All Ireland semi-final and forcing the match to a replay.

We should have won that one...ad last Sunday too!!

[knockaraven]

We'll see next Sunday!!

[xCailinMcx]

com on well gt em nex year!!!

[thegasworks]

So what's the state of play now?

[mickyfla101]

a bit cheesy. havin heard it played in gilroys yet lol

[joster2]

Go Fermanagh hope you win today.Don't let Armagh pull it off today.

[aidyanimal]

ohbtw i no the time to play the game motherhead song its good do u no where i could find the rave verson of this,,, oh yeh look up the leona lewis bleed vid over 50 mill views