He had a brolly in one hand and his bag in the other.

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Edwin Stevenson, a UUP councillor in Limavady, is not enamoured by Ms Brolly's plan to celebrate the song, however.

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Ms Brolly has proposed that different versions of the song (also known as the Londonderry Air) be played in the town once a day.

BBC: Plan to pipe out Danny Boy in Limavady

He insisted I join him under his brolly as the rain poured down - no mean feat to get under a brolly with Cyril Smith as I too am not slight in build.

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'Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling' is the refrain and if Sinn Fein councillor Anne Brolly gets her way the people of Limavady will be hearing a lot more of it.

BBC: Plan to pipe out Danny Boy in Limavady

She could see the lines, and at the end of them the trembling shadows of Bert, or Mike, or Stan, spending an idle Sunday away from the wife with a brolly and a can of beer.

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It is some turnaround for a man who, less than three years ago, was ridiculed as the 'wally with the brolly' in the wake of a shambolic 3-2 defeat by Croatia , which meant England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 and McClaren was sacked after only 19 months in charge of the national team.

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