RTE's Ireland's greatest person

recylingbin

The shortlist is:

Bono;
John Hume;
James Connolly;
Michael Collins
and Mary Robinson.

Don't be complaining though, apparently, we chose this shortlist.


Bono, ffs.

flyton5

What about uncle Gaybo?

Ruu_Old

Anne Doyle.

PeterIanStaker

Mary Robinson

Jedward with Ryan Tubridys hands up their asses? How did that not make the list?

recylingbin

Ruu wrote: »

Anne Doyle.

Either her or Jackie Healy ray or Joseph Biggar for me.

Jesus Wept

Me, imo.

nullzero

No mention of Larry Murphy?

SoupyNorman

Mary Robinson

Inanimate Carbon Rod.

neaideabh

John Hume

nullzero wrote: »

No mention of Larry Murphy?

SO WRONG

Thrill

None Of The Above.

nullzero

neaideabh wrote: »

SO WRONG

Not as wrong as Bono.

recylingbin

One is a musician who, as far as I know, has done no good for anyone but himself. Banged on about the poor, then bought Forbes magazine.
Another, while maybe having some claim, was born in Northern Ireland - Britain.
Yet another, who would have the strongest claim of the five imo, was born in Scotland.
The fourth one split the country in two and is, at least, partially responsible for the violence in the north in subsequent years.
And finally, a president who, let's be honest, did sod all for anyone. Spoke coherently on a few subjects, but haven't we all.

3/5 wouldn't make my list of people I'd give the time of day to.

CorkMan

No Jack Lynch?

neaideabh

John Hume

nullzero wrote: »

Not as wrong as Bono.

true

oppenheimer1

No Sean FitzPatrick?

johnmcdnl

Michael Collins

What about Dev

OPENROAD

Joe Duffy.

recylingbin

johnmcdnl wrote: »

What about Dev

Dev suffered badly because people believe what they see in fillums.

AlmightyCushion

This is ridiculous. Ireland has history of brilliant writers, poets and playwrites. We also have a pretty decent history in science, hell one of them even has a nobel prize for physics and this is the best they can muster up for the list. There are so many more people who deserve to be on that list.

starbelgrade

Where's Dustin the Turkey?

chordtype

recylingbin wrote: »

Dev suffered badly because people believe what they see in fillums.

The whole Nakatomi Plaza incident probably didn't help his case either.

starbelgrade

chordtype wrote: »

The whole Nakatomi Plaza incident probably didn't help his case either.

That's what happens when you build stuff without planning permission.

starlit

Mary Robinson

Michael Collins
James Connolly
Pearse is it (good at history and dates not great at remembering names)
Mary McAleese
Mary Robbinson
Bertie excluding the financial fiasco otherwise he was great in the boom
Gay Byrne of course

recylingbin

If someone can explain to me how Bono is greater than Robert Boyle or even Susan Boyle, I'll happilly accept his inclusion.

mikom

The barman at the Ardilaun.

chordtype

recylingbin wrote: »

If someone can explain to me how Bono is greater than Robert Boyle or even Susan Boyle, I'll happilly accept his inclusion.

Boyle didn't hang around with a guy called The Edge.

Terrible list this is. Lists like this just show that most people are idiots.

AlmightyCushion

recylingbin wrote: »

If someone can explain to me how Bono is greater than Robert Boyle or even Susan Boyle, I'll happilly accept his inclusion.

Come on, everyone knows making a few cds is far better than being the father of modern chemistry.

Jazzy

John Hume

all hail king bono! .o>
the lord of ireland

Havermeyer

What about Lugs Brannigan?

Mardy Bum

Beckett and Joyce would have a good laugh at this.

Insect Overlord

This is what I think happened:

Schools across the country doing "computers" lessons. Kids given "safe" websites to look at. Usual old names spouted by teachers. Kids learn to click the mouse by voting for generic big names. RTÉ is happy, kids are happy, people who know better face-palm and head-desk all over the country.

I genuinely can't think of any other way for those names to appear in that list!