Moby performed ‘My Lovely Horse’, the comic song from Father Ted, during his Dublin concert at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on 21 August. Introducing it as a possible “new national anthem”, he paid tribute to a song strongly associated with Irish television comedy and Eurovision satire.

The song appeared in Father Ted’s ‘A Song For Europe’, where Ted and Dougal enter the fictional Eurosong contest and receive “nul points”; it was written by Neil Hannon with Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews. Moby has played it before, performing it with Ardal O’Hanlon at Slane Castle in 2001 before roughly 80,000 people, while the episode recently regained attention after RTÉ aired it instead of the 2026 Eurovision final.