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Famous non-drinkers?

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    #32
    idPlease
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭idPlease


    hupyago wrote: »
    to be one of us as well

    I like that quote!! :):):):):):):):cool::):D

    Will Smith doesnt drink


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    #33
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,503 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    Elvis Presley didn't drink. He also hated people drinking around him, and couldn't abide how it made people act.

    He was fond of the aul' cigars though, and was known to take the odd pill here and there.. all legal of course :D


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    #34
    dennistuam
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    saddam hussain and hitler did not drink both were taureeans who normally drink out of a boot


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    #35
    celticwe
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭celticwe


    hupyago wrote: »
    dylan moran being one despite apperances
    also the irish guy from prison break said on tubridy that he wasn't drinking n e more
    that bill cullen (I'm terrific) gazillionare seems to be one of us as well
    I remember saying something like you can do what hes done (have money comin out your ears) by not doin the drinkin and the smokin and the drugs

    are you serious or takin z piss


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    #36
    hotspur
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    Dylan Moran has guzzled more wine than some small French towns. Also the reason Des Bishop doesn't drink is because he was among other things an alcoholic teenager.


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    #37
    brandmantra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭brandmantra


    informative thread. thanks for sharing your ideas. I've not seen this kind of thread at any forum.


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    #38
    CDfm
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    any non drinking stuff over XMAS


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    #39
    OK-Cancel-Apply
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    CDfm wrote: »
    any non drinking stuff over XMAS

    Christmas ain't the time for non-drinking! :p


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    #40
    roneythetube
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    good thread. as mentioned lots of good comedians dinna drink..Peter Kaye, Des Bishop and not mentioned yet is PJ Gallagher - him of Naked Camera fame.:)


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    #41
    gaf1983
    Registered Users Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    Johnny Delaney, former drummer with The Saw Doctors.

    When the band used to tour he'd drink tea with the driver instead of going drinking with the rest of them and get up at the crack of dawn the next morning for a run. These days he's running about 100 marathons in 4 years to raise money for charity.


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    #42
    Dave!
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    That's a Jim Fixx waiting to happen!


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    #43
    Noodleworm
    Registered Users Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Noodleworm


    If your into rock music there's quite a few musicians who don't but some of those probably just gave up after overdoing it before..
    There was also a whole early punk movement that revolved around not drinking or doing drugs..


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    #44
    CDfm
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    The Dalai Lama


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    #45
    zero_nine
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭zero_nine


    Lead singer...Serious man altogether


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    #46
    Tableman
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    Michael Collins quit drinking (after he signed the treaty and returned to Ireland, I think!). But there is documentation that he did quit at some stage!


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    #47
    SpitfireIV
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    Tableman wrote: »
    Michael Collins quit drinking (after he signed the treaty and returned to Ireland, I think!). But there is documentation that he did quit at some stage!

    The last day of his life he had downed a few, and why not! :P There had been a few stops along the journey for 'refreshments', some 'Clonakilty Wrestler'. May have contributed to his death in some way, ie not having clear judgement due to alchohol consumed (combined of course with a kidney infection and heavy cold).

    So I think we can remove Collins from the list.

    Just as an interesting sidenote, I heard once that in 1916, when stationed in the GPO he took a number of barrells of alchohol and poured them down the drain out of fear that the men would be drunk and thus not be able to perform their duties.

    How ironic eh :rolleyes:


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    #48
    Trained Monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭Trained Monkey


    DJ Carey

    Mick O'Dwyer

    Probably some more famous Irish sports people but cant think of them at the minute


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    #49
    CDfm
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    Fr Matthew


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    #50
    thusspakeblixa
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    Judge Roberto Mendoza from The West Wing didn't drink :P


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    #51
    Affable
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    George Galloway and now Alistair Campbell after being heavy into it.


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    #52
    Vim Fuego
    Registered Users Posts: 743 ✭✭✭Vim Fuego


    Aidan O'Brien, probably one of our most successful horse trainers doesn't drink.


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    #53
    txomin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭txomin


    Football managers Tony Mowbray and Owen Coyle are teetotallers.

    Coyle was asked after Burnley's play-off win last month, would he be cracking open the bubbly, to which he replied, "No, i'll be attacking a crate of Irn-Bru instead" :D


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    #54
    Seamu$
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    Plenty of sports people....Micheal O'Muircheartaigh, Mickey Harte & Kenny Cunningham. Sean Og O'Hailpin as well I believe.


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    #55
    Gruffalo
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    Roy Keane does not drink anymore.


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    #56
    cedomination
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    Ian McKaye!


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    #57
    zainabc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭zainabc


    i didnt no all those ppl didnt drink esp peter kay lol
    gud stuff we need a bit more celebs i think


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    #58
    finnerz1
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    christy moore doesnt anymore.


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    #59
    Precious flower
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    As far as I know Thierry Henry does not drink. :)


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    #60
    Skapoot
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭Skapoot


    Hitler drank for the first time as a younglad, woke up the next morning in a ditch and some youngwan who passed by had to help him home. He said that he never wanted to go through that again! Sober 4 life


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    #61
    prinz
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    Michael Schumacher. There was a story a few years ago that he got sick all over the place at a dinner reception held by Ferrari for him after taking over the world yet again. Apparently someone was pouring him alcoholic instead of non-alco champagne.


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