To think it's fair play to take the better offer?

[Midge1978]

Imelda May cancelled a gig on Saturday at the last moment. She was headlining a festival in a small town in the midlands and cancelled it as she had been invited at the last minute to sing the Irish national anthem at the boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas.

She has apologised saying that she felt duty called and she felt it was the biggest sporting event in her small island's history etc. Yet her Facebook feed is full of vitriol from disappointed fans. Yes of course it's gutting for her real fans and very stressful for event organisers but could they realistically expect her to turn down more money and more exposure for less work? Give the woman a break - she did what anyone would do, surely?!

Fred Anus the pub artiste farting into a trumpet and telling mildy racist jokes...

Do you have his agent's number?

Got a toddler birthday party coming up, have you? ;)

How did you guess?

If you are big enough to warrant such a gig, you will get booked early.
if you are asked to dep at the last minute and you are already contracted then you honour the contract.
She will be known as unreliable and an amateur now, because pros don't do that.

Don't lie it's for your next birthday!

Never heard of her. But if I do hear her name in the future I'll only think of her as the unprofessional wannabe who doesn't give a shit when her (ex?) fans are out of money for tickets, travel and accommodation.

Why do you call him a domestic abuser? Is there evidence?

It's Mayweather, not McGregor. Known for domestic abuse.

Ah. I see. Didn't know that. Nice man

Ok. So why is McGregor a racist? (Yes, I know nothing)

Think at one of the pre-match slanging matches he called Mayweather something racist? There was something about that but not sure.

Susan Calman cancelled her tour to go on strictly. Not on in my book.

Goodness. Nice men

If the millions of people watching the boxing match don't care about the personal merits of the boxers, I don't see why we expect her to.

I don't blame her for going. Singing your anthem at a sporting event is a huge honour and might not happen twice. I thought her rendition of amhrán na bhfiann was brilliant and i'm not a big fan of hers.

I saw a bit of the anthem on the news and assumed she was an American singer as she pronounced some of the words with English phonics and others as they'd sound in a different tense/context rather than how they sound in Irish. Knowing it was Imelda May makes it very weird, I know most of us can neither speak the language nor sing the anthem, but I'd expect an Irish professional singer to know how to pronounce the words of the song they were hired to sing. But she didn't even pronounce bhfiann properly (part of the name of the song and the big climax at the end).

Exactly sashi.

She has an American manager who would have insisted she took the global tv audience of millions instead of a field of people who didn't even buy tickets for her show, they bought festival tickets. Yes it's a breach of contact but whatever the penalty (probably only return of the portion of fee paid in advance), it was strategically worth paying it. She's trying to build a global career, and good luck to her - no many single parents in their late 30s (early 40s by now?) and from a background like hers are in that position

Everyone involved in that fight was in it for the money. Imelda May went for greater money and exposure. If she had more integrity, she would have stuck with the original commitment.

Who pulled out of singing the national anthem for her to be asked to step in at 11th hour?

Having heard the anthem, I think they had a lucky escape.

Still poor form on her behalf though.

Was it that bad?!

Oh I thought it was fine tbh.

Apparently it was McGregors teams personal responsibility to get someone but they hadn't realised, so it was a scramble to get anyone at the eleventh hour.

Count your lucky stars, they initially asked Bono but he wasn't free. I shudder at what his performance would have been like.

@Midge1978

I couldn't understand a single word! Terrible!

Bono turned down this! Christ almighty that must be a first for him!