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Remember when Brendan O'Connor dressed as a trendy priest and released a rap single?

Who’s in the house? Jesus in the house.

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THE YEAR WAS 2000.

Brendan O’Connor was a journalist with the Sunday Independent and a fixture on RTÉ 2′s Don’t Feed The Gondolas. During his stint on Don’t Feed The Gondolas, O’Connor developed a trendy priest character named Father Brian.

Here’s a sketch in which Father Brian wanders arond Temple Bar and attempts to cajole tourists into “dancing for Christ”.

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In May 2000, Brendan O’Connor became an unlikely pop star of sorts when his novelty rap single Who’s In The House? reached number 3 in the singles chart. (Incidentally, Bad Touch by The Bloodhound Gang and Maniac 2000 beat it to number one.)

The song featured O’Connor dressed as Father Brian, enthusiastically rapping lines like:

Well I like to bring the ladies out to Medjugorje/No truth in the rumour that we’re having an orgy

And…

Like all good homies, I have a twelve-man posse/One called Peter, none called Mossy

*dies*

One of Ireland’s most prominent columnists and broadcasters was once the frontman of a group called Father Brian and the Fun Lovin’ Cardinals. Let that sink in for a moment.

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Who’s in the house? Jesus in the house…

The song peaked at no. 3 and stayed in the charts for 15 weeks.

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Imagine there are thousands of copies of Who’s In The House? lying around Irish homes.

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Seventeen years later and the chorus is never far from Irish people’s brains…

What a peculiar little country we are.

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