Barney O'Blather, hotpress.com: "Very few people understand the world the way Coughlan does, even fewer can express it in the same humourous, ironic and caustic manner. Viva Dead Ponies is my number one choice because of its many observations on Ireland, like ‘A Pack Of Lies’, a song with mesmerising Gaelic harpsichords over which the Catholic hegemony is denounced. Conventional it is not."