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Retro Irish sex symbols.

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    #2
    Judgement Day
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    So what famous Irish people (if any) did you fancy growing up?For me it was Leslie Dowdal of In Tua Nua(Marry me Leslie!Sigh!)


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    One of mine too! A couple of years ago she joined in an impromptu session in my local in Enniscorthy - especially memorable as I don't think that there were more than half a dozen of us there at the time.

    Flo MacSweeney (Moving Hearts) was another from the same era.

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    The Princess Bride
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    I fancied Shaun O Dowd from Ding-A-Ling.

    I was a severely short sighted teenager.:o
    Now?
    I'm wondering what a Ding-A-Ling was.

    Unless I was dreaming, I think someone told me recently that he is still performing somewhere.

    As my sight improved and I got older, I fancied Seán O Conner from The Lookalikes.


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    Ralf and Florian
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    Who was that male newsreader on RTE who was considered something of a sex symbol in the mid 80s?There used to be speculation that him and Anne Doyle might be an item and there was a sketch on Davis At Large where they were at the newsdesk singing a version of Islands In The Stream with the lyrics changed.


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    The Princess Bride
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    ^^^^^
    Richard Crowley was the only hot newsreader in the 80s.
    I think I'd have remembered another one.
    Paul Clark left RTÉ to go to UTV and is still there.

    Can't think of anyone else.


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    Ralf and Florian
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    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    ^^^^^



    Richard Crowley was the only hot newsreader in the 80s.
    I think I'd have remembered another one.
    Paul Clark left RTÉ to go to UTV and is still there.

    Can't think of anyone else.


    Yeah it was him alright,coulden't think of his name.


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    Aimeee
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    Richard Crowley was lovely alright!


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    Harry Palmr
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    Well it would be wrong not to mention Bibi Baskin


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    Hank Scorpio
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    Fidelma off Glenroe, that bastard Miley got to her first :(


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    lord lucan
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    Theresa Lowe ftw, had a mad crush on her as a young fella.


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    Ralf and Florian
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    Toni The Exotic Dancer


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    Judgement Day
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Well it would be wrong not to mention Bibi Baskin

    Forever linked with this live phone-in to the Gerry Ryan show - sorry. :D

    Gerry Ryan: (during a discussion on whether people would like to be
    buried or cremated when they die) - "Would you like to be buried or
    cremated?"
    Caller: "Oh, buried Gerry."
    Gerry Ryan: "And where would you like to be buried?"
    Caller: "Up to me balls in Bibi Baskin!"


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    byhookorbycrook
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    Liam Ó Maonlai from Hot House Flowers

    Dick Moran from Glenroe (Emmet Bergin) He was spotted close to where we were on holidays so my mother and aunt insisted we track him down on the far end of a beach, he was sunbathing in the nude, never saw my mother move so far in the other direction!!

    I wrote to Richard Crowley i my teens and he wrote back and sent me a photo . (Cringe)


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    An Riabhach
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    Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman)
    Marion Richardson (Bosco)
    Carol McDermott (Glenroe-dunno her real name)
    Ciana Campbell
    Cynthia Ní Mhurchú agus Clíodhna Ní Bhuachalla


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    PippaChic
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    lord lucan wrote: »
    Theresa Lowe ftw, had a mad crush on her as a young fella.

    I spotted her about a year ago and she hasn't changed much!

    I second Richard Crowley!


    And there was the lead singer of the Nervous Animals - they sang on Self Aid, I saw it years later and wondered what I ever found so attractive about him!


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    FatherTed
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    The Sheba girls
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    Also, my first real love when I was a wee lad was for the lovely blonde locks of Tina. Beaten out by some crowd from Sweden in the Eurovision. I was devastated.
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    DublinWriter
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    Maxi.

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    [Deleted User]
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    Johnny Logan was a ride in the 80's


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    dilallio
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    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    I fancied Shaun O Dowd from Ding-A-Ling.

    I was a severely short sighted teenager.:o
    Now?
    I'm wondering what a Ding-A-Ling was.

    Unless I was dreaming, I think someone told me recently that he is still performing somewhere.

    As my sight improved and I got older, I fancied Seán O Conner from The Lookalikes.

    Believe it or not, Shaun is actually Chris O'Dowd's dad.


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    DoozerT6
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    Jonathon Ryan that used to present Bosco, now better known for being on every advert on the radio! :)


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    darkdubh
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    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    Jonathon Ryan that used to present Bosco, now better known for being on every advert on the radio! :)

    I used to find something sinister about him,probably the beard.(Was looking for a Bosco era pic of him with said beard but there aren't any but heres one of him with a tash.He still looks a bit sinister.)


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    Santa Cruz
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    And not a mention of poor old Twink. Go on lads I'm sure ye all thought about giving her one. I'd do it now just toget in the good books with the daughter.


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    ger vallely
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    Bob Geldof and Phil Lynott. I still think they are hot!


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    Pat Mustard
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    Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hmFPBf-C8&app=desktop


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    P. Breathnach
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    The Mustard wrote: »
    Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hmFPBf-C8&app=desktop
    Invalid answer. She was played by English actress Vicki Michelle. Also famous as Yvette in 'Allo 'Allo. But yes, a sex symbol.


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    Pat Mustard
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    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    Invalid answer.

    Heh


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    OU812
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    ger vallely wrote: »
    Bob Geldof and Phil Lynott. I still think they are hot!

    Lynott's stone cold now


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    saabsaab
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    Thelma Mansfield.


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    whisky_galore
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    Sally O'Brien and the way she'd look at you....(Yes I know the she wasn't Irish!)


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    vicwatson
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    There is only one.

    Anne Doyle. purrrrrrr


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    #31
    Judgement Day
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    Must be the warm weather - I suddenly remembered another retro hottie from the 1980s. Irish Times columnist Anne-Marie Hourihane who was a regular on RTE TV's "Nighthawks" http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/tv50nighthawksrehashed.html

    Can't find a decent pic of her from back then but she was hottttttttttt!!


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