Name someone famous from your county

cjbh

OK, obviously Dublin and Cork will have loads of representatives.
but i'm curious, does each of the 32 counties have at least one famous person?

i'll start...i'm from Tipp so i'll go with Pat Shortt (comedian), and, um...one of the girls from the Saturdays (girlband).


p.s. GAA players don't count, every county has them...

Terry

I went ot school with David Geraghty and Trevor Brennan, so that's Kildare covered.

Turd Ferguson

Are you lost? This is still AH right..

And I'm from Dublin so does that mean I'm excluded from this game? Thats not fair. I'm calling shennanigans on this one

Jemmy

Seamus Heany has a lil cottage down the road from me, dunno if hes there much!
Wicklow has loads!

Lilyblue

Pierce Brosnan is from Meath

Shacklebolt

Louis Walsh unfortunately :mad:

sillyputty

The Corrs - Up Louth

holly1

Christy Moore/Ron Wood=Kildare.

My name is URL

sillyputty wrote: »

The Corrs - Up Louth

+ Stephen Staunton and Eoin McLove!

SEPT 23 1989

is Laois near Cambodia?

seanybiker

john o shea. That big donkey is from waterford.

sam34

jackie healy ray from kerry (not that im proud of him but still, he's famous)

tom crean, the antarctic explorer

daithi o se, irelands sexiest weatherman!

Ann22

sillyputty wrote: »

The Corrs - Up Louth

..and Liam Reilly
Stephen Staunton
Gary Kelly
Ian Hart
Jimmy Magee(born in us but raised in Louth)
Dermot Ahern
Larry goodman is a bit famous, he's a mega successful beef person
Maria Christian (represented Ireland in the Eurovision in 1985, was famous for a wee while)
An actor with red curly hair and a beard who was in a few Irish films, dunno his name. Think he was in the
Mars or Snickers ad where they were all dancing in a canteen queue like they did in the dole queue in The Full Monty.
The red haired one in Fair City, think she was an ex nun in it.
The wee blonde one in the last Harry Potter film.

dr.bollocko

I was not born in Ireland.
Leave me out would ye?

sam34

forgot paschal sheehy and joe stack, the rte reporters/newspapers

mukki

jimmy bennett star of meath made movie fatal deviation lives about 5 miles from me, its on youtube

buckfast is now a called a bottle of tommy bo

Kelter

Des Lynam... Up the banner!

Also Brian Boru... I think having a hundred pubs called after you counts as fame

Shacklebolt

Michael Davitt.

Enda Kenny.

Granuaille.

Ann22

Ann22 wrote: »

..and Liam Reilly
Stephen Staunton
Gary Kelly
Ian Hart
Jimmy Magee(born in us but raised in Louth)
Dermot Ahern
Larry goodman is a bit famous, he's a mega successful beef person
Maria Christian (represented Ireland in the Eurovision in 1985, was famous for a wee while)
An actor with red curly hair and a beard who was in a few Irish films, dunno his name. Think he was in the
Mars or Snickers ad where they were all dancing in a canteen queue like they did in the dole queue in The Full Monty.
The red haired one in Fair City, think she was an ex nun in it.
The wee blonde one in the last Harry Potter film.

Leopold Mcclintock-famous Artic explorer, born in Jocelyn st Dundalk
St Brigid
John Moore-director of Omen remake and Behind Enemy Lines

Busi_Girl08

Richard Harris - Yes I know he's dead, but he was the best thing out of Limerick:cool:

Terry Wogan

Jimmy Carr

RonMexico

Our Minister for Bad Moustaches - Groucho O' Dea

mardybumbum

Charles Haughey and Padraig Flynn, the two bestest politicians ever. :pac:

Shacklebolt

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Jimmy Carr

Well if we're counting people whos parents are from a particuliar county, then Liam and Noel Gallagher.

ibarelycare

Lilyblue wrote: »

Pierce Brosnan is from Meath

+ Tommy Tiernan
Dylan Moran
Hector Ó hEocahgáin
Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) & Ronan Keating both lived in Dunshaughlin for a period while growing up...does that count?!

CoDy1

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Richard Harris - Yes I know he's dead, but he was the best thing out of Limerick:cool:

Terry Wogan

Jimmy Carr

Steve Finnan -Soccer Player -Liverpool & Ireland

Delores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)

One or two famous rugby players aswell;)

kieranmcg1

Im from donegal we have

Tommy Tiernan
Shay Given
Rory Gallagher

AnonoBoy

Daisy Duke.

I'm from Hazzard County myself.

Diabhal Beag

Grainne and Sile Seoige :pac:
Michael D. Higgins
WB Yeats
The Galway Girl from that ****e song

Help me out please

JackieRyan

Kevin Myers
Vincent Browne
Paul O Connell
Johathan Hayes
George Lee
Keith Earls
Darren Shan
Frank Mc Court
Peter Clohessey
Keith Wood
Count John McCormac
The Cranberries
John Kenny
Pat Short
just a few more from Limerick

S.I.R

chuck David Norris.

drusk

Peter O'Toole (actor)
Nora Barnacle (James Joyce's wife)
Eamon Casey (bishop with wife)
Lady Gregory
Delores Keane
Aoife Mulholland (west end/reality tv)
Michael D. Higgins

That's all I can think of from Galway...

biko

Seoige sisters
Nora Jane Noone

ibarelycare

kieranmcg1 wrote: »

Im from donegal we have

Tommy Tiernan
Shay Given
Rory Gallagher

Tommy Tiernan's from Navan

S.I.R

ibarelycare wrote: »

Tommy Tiernan's from Navan

indeed he is... Darwin award goes to..

kieranmcg1

ibarelycare wrote: »

Tommy Tiernan's from Navan

Tommy Tiernan was born and lived in Carndonagh for 3 years before he moved to africa then moved to navan.

liah

Well I'm not FROM Westmeath, but I'm IN Westmeath, so... Joe Dolan and the Blizzards..?

Darkbloom

Barack Obama.

SpitfireIV

Richie Kavanagh!!

Patrick Bergin

Saoirse Ronan

Yes, you guessed it guys.........CARLOW

m@cc@

Adrian Dunbar
Kyle Lafferty (Football)
Fr. Brian D'Arcy
John Kelly (DJ)

Dudess

Define "famous"?

Roy Keane, Cillian Murphy, Jonathan Rhys Myers.

Terry

I really don't think politicians count. Every county has loads of them.

stepbar

Katherine Lynch
Paul Williams
That fcuker Colm O'Rourke was born in Leitrim and moved to Meath when he was 7.
Eleanor Shanley
Carol Coleman

There's lots of other people from my county, dead now, who shaped the country for better or.... worse in some cases.

laurashambles

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Richie Kavanagh!!

Patrick Bergin

Saoirse Ronan

Yes, you guessed it guys.........CARLOW

Gah, you took all the decent ones! Let's not be forgetting yer one from No Frontiers whose name escapes me at the moment.

TPD

Daniel O Donnell?

Dolbert

JackieRyan wrote: »

Pat Short
just a few more from Limerick

Pat Shortt is from Tipperary. He went to my school :pac:

Terry

Dudess wrote: »

Define "famous"?

Roy Keane, Cillian Murphy, Jonathan Rhys Myers.

Ooh. Look at Ms. I'm from a county wirh a large population.

efb

Offaly land- Aidan Quinn

Gear9992

Kildare --> Damien Rice I guess

doolox

Angelica Huston, daughter of film director John Huston and star of the Addams family films lived a lot of her early life in Craughwell, Co Galway.
Ulick O'Connor was originally from Ballinasloe.
Frankie Gavin and Martin O'Connor and other trad musicians, Joe Burke etc...
Lord Killanin whose surname is Morris also is there a jockey there somwhere called "Mouse" Morris???
Mary Coughlan originally a Doherty from west Galway city.
The Sawdoctors come all the way from Tuam............

Min

James Hoban - designed and built the white house
George Berkeley - city and university named after him in California
The Kilkenny hurling team
Evanne Ni Quillan
Blessed Edmund Rice
Ronan Tynan

Thats for starters....