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In 2021 Kneecap released their single "MAM" as a tribute to their mothers, the song was acknowledged as a shift away from their usual style saying that they wanted to do something more "real". Mo Chara stated in an interview that they wanted to show that "we can 'roundhouse' you off the stage but we
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found that and arrested his friend, although Móglaí managed to escape. The friend only spoke Irish at the police station, and spent a night there, refusing to speak
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can also give you a hug afterwards. We wanted to do something a bit sentimental, we don't wanna just box ourselves in with masculinity all the time." The trio also revealed on
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inflicted on alleged drug-dealers by paramilitary Irish
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Their first single "C.E.A.R.T.A." was loosely based on Móglaí Bap's experience. On the day before the
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