During a quick tour of You Tube’s Irish offerings yesterday, I stumbled once again on my old friends Horslips, and couldn’t help but pass along this video of a performance of “I’ll Be Waiting,” one of their many sad songs about emigration, in Belfast at some point on their comeback trail.

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