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Dara O'Brien - Next Terry Wogan?

  • 20-10-2007 12:54am
    #1
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭


    Hi, just thought id ask, since the beeb have nicked yet another of our emerging talent and O'Brien has already proved quite a hit over there - is he going to be the next Terry Wogan? ie the man from Ireland they all think is as English as Finchley? (btw Wogan is a legend and I will never refer to O'Brien in that sense).......Similar to Wogan in the sense they both started broadcasting at RTE. However he is dis-similar in the sense that O'Brien will use any opportunity to mention he is from Ireland where as Wogan seems, well, not bothered (he was on Johnathan Ross tonight and when his Limerick roots were brought up he buried it ASAP). Like he is ashamed or something, I dont know. O'Brien - Irelands shining light in the UK? Norton too btw but he seems equally as bothered as Wogan!


    BTW I know they have to play to the mostly English audience and that but Wogan and Norton im disappointed with from an Irish perspective. 'Sir Terry' for example...........I mean its like a well planned assimilation process.


Comments

  • #2
    karen3212
    Closed Accounts Posts: 668 ✭✭✭karen3212


    Ach dhera shur, they obviously love living in England, all three of them. Surely with time people see their adopted country as home, lets hope the immigrants here will feel so loved by Ireland that they will similarly feel at home here. Have you ever lived in another country? I don't think they are playing down their Irishness or anything, what does it really matter where you are born, we were all born here by accident.


  • #3
    lostexpectation
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    dara o brien is quite good at keeping his irish identity, he always says you english on mock the week instead of we... wogan rarely mentions his irishness but he did seem proud when talking about limerick last night, although he cut ros off with his stupid joke about leprechans.

    wasn't it tommy tiernan who wouldn't bow in front of the prince of wales.

    anway obrien said on turbidy the thought of him repacing parkison was rubbish talk


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