Retro Irish sex symbols.

darkdubh · 31-07-2014 2:11am #1

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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Judgement Day · 31-07-2014 9:58am

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.

The Princess Bride · 31-07-2014 4:46pm

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.

Ralf and Florian · 31-07-2014 5:03pm

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.

The Princess Bride · 31-07-2014 5:10pm

^^^^^
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.

Ralf and Florian · 31-07-2014 5:17pm

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.

Aimeee · 31-07-2014 5:23pm

Richard Crowley was lovely alright!

Harry Palmr · 31-07-2014 5:44pm

Well it would be wrong not to mention Bibi Baskin

Hank Scorpio · 31-07-2014 5:46pm

Fidelma off Glenroe, that bastard Miley got to her first

lord lucan · 31-07-2014 8:53pm

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

Ralf and Florian · 31-07-2014 8:55pm

Toni The Exotic Dancer

Judgement Day · 31-07-2014 9:41pm

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.

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!"

byhookorbycrook · 31-07-2014 9:54pm

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)

An Riabhach · 01-08-2014 12:02am

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

PippaChic · 01-08-2014 3:28pm

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!

FatherTed · 01-08-2014 3:50pm

The Sheba girls

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.

DublinWriter · 01-08-2014 4:16pm

Maxi.

04-08-2014 10:09pm

Johnny Logan was a ride in the 80's

dilallio · 05-08-2014 4:19pm

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.

DoozerT6 · 05-08-2014 8:56pm

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

darkdubh · 06-08-2014 6:57am

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.)

Santa Cruz · 08-08-2014 7:47pm

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.

ger vallely · 08-08-2014 7:51pm

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

Pat Mustard · 08-08-2014 7:55pm

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

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

P. Breathnach · 10-08-2014 3:53pm

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.

Pat Mustard · 10-08-2014 4:04pm

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Invalid answer.

Heh

OU812 · 10-08-2014 4:10pm

ger vallely wrote: »

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

Lynott's stone cold now

saabsaab · 10-08-2014 4:21pm

Thelma Mansfield.

whisky_galore · 11-08-2014 8:11am

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

vicwatson · 11-08-2014 8:44am

There is only one.

Anne Doyle. purrrrrrr

Judgement Day · 11-08-2014 9:30am

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!!

Pat Mustard · 11-08-2014 10:54pm

Judgement Day wrote: »

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!!

washiskin · 12-08-2014 5:30pm

Racing Driver Derek Daly :

darkdubh · 13-08-2014 5:23am

The Mustard wrote: »

She was a stunner back then but she hasen't really aged too well.

Ralf and Florian · 14-08-2014 4:58pm

Can anyone confirm if this is Ann Marie Hourihane who appears here at .22 sitting on the right?Looks very like her but this is from 1979 so I thought she would have been too young.This is The Virgin Prunes on The Late Late.