The story behind Kingfishr’s ‘Killeagh’, which has now had 60 million streams on my streamer alone, is quite something
In mid-2024, Eoin Fitzgibbon was asked by former hurling coach Phillip O’Neill to write a song for Killeagh GAA to which he agreed if the juniors made the east Cork final that year. Fitzgibbon believed it was unlikely as team hadn’t made the final since 2001. Fitzgibbon said, “lo and behold, October arrives and they get to the final” and he is contacted by O’Neill.
The song was written in 20 minutes, with the group saying “It literally could not have been more of a slapped-together job” Killeagh (song) on Wikipedia