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It seems like everyone in the country is watching The Snapper tonight

Published 22:07 17 Mar 2018 GMT

Kate Demolder
It seems like everyone in the country is watching The Snapper tonight

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"Snip, snip."

At the end of a perfect day of a patriotic week, the people of Ireland felt like they'd won the lottery when they realised that The Snapper was on telly on St Patrick's night. The Snapper remains a firm favourite among Irish audiences with quotes from the movie spilling all over the internet from the film's watchers. Perhaps the most quotable Irish movie of all time, there's just something in the Curley family that we all seem to relate to. It also never, ever gets old. The classic Roddy Doyle tale about young Sharon who gets knocked up by her friend’s Dad after a drunken fumble in a car park involves public shame, making up the daddy’s identity and her family’s reaction – and we get to witness true Dublin humour like nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9dNTrJCLwI A widely adored film every time it graces Irish telly, Twitter blew up with legions of tweets of appreciation, quotes and utter delight in its presence in people's living rooms. And the crowd went wild... https://twitter.com/ronniedevlin/status/975127723348779008 https://twitter.com/LH_BrunetteB/status/975129178759663617 https://twitter.com/ciaranwalsh96/status/975123340997398529 https://twitter.com/SaintPaulo/status/975123245535059968 https://twitter.com/SimonDelaneyEsq/status/975122697557602304 https://twitter.com/runnerbeangirl/status/975124196555673602 https://twitter.com/BeerPadawan/status/975126205681643520 https://twitter.com/JohnnyBranagan/status/975127199442489345 St Patrick's Day, Grand Slam winners and now The Snapper. Life can't get much better than that.

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It seems like everyone in the country is watching The Snapper tonight