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Vote for Irelands Greatest Person

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  • 22-03-2010 1:15pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭


    Clicky

    40 figures and a more dismally conservative bunch you'll go along way to find - two members of Boyzone‎ on the list, and one of them is still alive! No Van the Man (he'll be glad) or Rory Gallagher. No Robert Boyle, no Francis Beaufort, no Arthur Wellington, no Edmund Burke, no Jonathan Swift.

    Be careful not to mix up Daniel O'Connell and Daniel O'Donnell when you vote.


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    #2
    stmol32
    Registered Users Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    Jesus that's pathetic.


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    #3
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    I read this in the Tribune or some such paper yesterday.

    How the f*ck did Gately get in there?

    No Dustin the Turkey:rolleyes:


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    #4
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Clicked link, first person I saw was bono. Then Geldof. Fuck that.


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    #5
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I voted for Christy Ring. C'mon Christy Ring! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH!


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    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Louis Walsh is in there, ffs. And Haughey :eek:


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    zonEEE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭zonEEE


    gotta be collins!


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    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    That is f**ing dismal indeed. Being the Tubridy Show, I nearly expected to see Inbredward on the list. Urrggghhh:mad:


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    bette
    Registered Users Posts: 496 ✭✭bette


    Greatest Irishmen? Well rock stars and boys band warblers do not come into this category!

    There are only three decent candidates who are:

    Collins
    Lemass
    Pearse

    The rest are not great men. They are entertainers and the odd failed politician!


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    #10
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Some startling ommissions....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FmVopEs9yI


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHddpHuEOHI


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x60BovWjrk


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    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,577 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    No John-Joe? This list is fail.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,153 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    No Barack O´bama?

    (No Gay Byrne either... that did genuinely rasie an eyebrow)

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    token56
    Registered Users Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭token56


    Idiotic list, none of Ireland's greatest scientific minds, such as Callan, Boole, Stoney, Walton.

    But yet you have Danial O Donnell and Louis Walsh, feck sake


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    Pacing Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,057 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    No Feeky ???


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    #15
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    But no Gerry Ryan so its all-square.


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    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    bette wrote: »
    Greatest Irishmen? Well rock stars and boys band warblers do not come into this category!

    There are only three decent candidates who are:

    Collins
    Lemass
    Pearse

    The rest are not great men. They are entertainers and the odd failed politician!

    Add Charles Stewart Parnell to that list.


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    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    bette wrote: »
    Greatest Irishmen? Well rock stars and boys band warblers do not come into this category!

    There are only three decent candidates who are:

    Collins
    Lemass
    Pearse

    The rest are not great men. They are entertainers and the odd failed politician!
    Ah come on Phill Lynnot ie easily superior to those three!!


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    TPD
    Registered Users Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    # Christy Moore, Christy Moore, Christy Moore! #


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,153 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Kevin from Galway, anyone?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0S1VmlHb0Y

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    PeterIanStaker wrote: »
    That is f**ing dismal indeed. Being the Tubridy Show, I nearly expected to see Inbredward on the list. Urrggghhh:mad:
    I didn't notice it was for the Tubridy show, it makes sense now.


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,994 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    A sizeable number of complete crooks and **** on the list.


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    BongoJuice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭BongoJuice


    I didn't click on the link but I would like to vote for King William of Orange. We owe him a great debt as a nation.


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    #23
    Stench Blossoms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    Joe Dolan FTW !


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    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    chin_grin wrote: »
    I voted for Christy Ring. C'mon Christy Ring! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH!

    The hurling compensation nominee for Cork since Kilkenny are better and have and had better players than Christy Ring who would be banned if he played the same way now as then.....

    Just ask some from Galway....


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    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    No Flann O'Brien, Ernest Walton, Jonathan Swift.

    What a shíte of a survey. Surprised the bould Tubridy didn't appear in the thing himself.


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    #26
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Tom Crean

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Crean_%28explorer%29


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    #27
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Colin Farrell????

    Ireland must be in real trouble going by some of the people they used for the greatest Irish person ever.


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    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Never heard of Christy Ring before.

    Ronan Keating who cannot sing is on the list along with Louis Walsh, are they having a giraffe??


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    Trashbat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 489 ✭✭Trashbat


    I voted for James Connolly, a scotsman.

    In fairness this poll seems to be about as scientific and balanced as an episode of family fortunes.


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    #30
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,994 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    BongoJuice wrote: »
    I didn't click on the link but I would like to vote for King William of Orange. We owe him a great debt as a nation.

    Are you sure you don't mean King William of Bongo, because your suggestion wasn't Irish?


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    #31
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    mike65 wrote: »
    Clicky

    40 figures and a more dismally conservative bunch you'll go along way to find - two members of Boyzone‎ on the list, and one of them is still alive! No Van the Man (he'll be glad) or Rory Gallagher. No Robert Boyle, no Francis Beaufort, no Arthur Wellington, no Edmund Burke, no Jonathan Swift.

    Be careful not to mix up Daniel O'Connell and Daniel O'Donnell when you vote.


    Why don't we make our own list?

    Boards.ie is bigger than RTE.ie


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