12/12/2025
DJ Moorhouse Song of the Year 2025 Killeagh by Irish indie folk group Kingfishr.
Killeagh by Kingfishr was Ireland's most streamed song on Spotify in 2025.
Killeagh went viral on TikTok and spent 18 weeks in the Irish Top 10, gone four-times platinum, and become the first traditional, folk-leaning song to see this level of success since The Fields of Athenry.
How Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit
All the other teams round here, said Phillip “Yank” O’Neill, have a song to sing in the changing rooms when they win. We don’t. You’re in a band. Write a song for Killeagh.
Eoin “Fitz” Fitzgibbon Kingfishr guitarist said he would write a song if the juniors got to an east Cork final in 2024. In his head, “it was not going to happen. Killeagh haven’t been in the final since 2001, there’s no way they’ll get to a final this year. And lo and behold, October arrives and they get to the final, and Yank texts me almost immediately.”
The song is a heart-on-sleeve tribute to the sport of hurling and the focal point it provides for the people of Killeagh – and, by inference, communities like it all over Ireland.
DJ Moorhouse Song of the Year 2025 Killeagh by Irish indie folk group Kingfishr.
