Who is the most popular, and least popular person in Ireland?

nosey rosie

Least popular... Bertie Ahern. Especially as he seems to have no shame for what he's done :mad:

Most popular? Thats difficult... maybe someone like Dara O'Briain? I can't think of an Irish person who is universally liked, outside of comedy

TheFullDuck

Inb4 least popular : OP

nosey rosie

TheFullDuck wrote: »

Inb4 least popular : OP

ItsAWindUp

Me and me.

Quackles

I think the Irish public have a short memory span and I'd put Brian Cowan higher on the hated list than Bertie for a lot of people.

Personally, I love Marty Whelan Marty for president!

barbarians

I absolutely despise Blaitnid Ni Chofaigh and Amanda Brunker and apparently I'm not in a minority.

I'd say Grainne Seoige would be well liked by many.






(Yes I recognise the Ireland Has No Talent Show theme)

nosey rosie

Quackles wrote: »

I think the Irish public have a short memory span and I'd put Brian Cowan higher on the hated list than Bertie for a lot of people.

Personally, I love Marty Whelan Marty for president!

Aye... its hard to dislike Marty Whelan. I personally think he's under-utilised... and he'd be a great president

eagle10

Least: Blaitnid Ni Chofaigh
Most: Gay Byrne?

nosey rosie

Badgermonkey wrote: »

My Least: Twink

My Most: Imelda May

Oh great choices .... damn, wish I'd thought of them!

orourkeda

eagle10 wrote: »

Least: Blaitnid Ni Chofaigh
Most: Gay Byrne?

Gay Byrne is a bollix

tommyboy2222

Most: Georgia Salpa
Least : Brian Lenihan

chillywilly

nosey rosie wrote: »

Aye... its hard to dislike Marty Whelan. I personally think he's under-utilised... and he'd be a great president

I find it probably the most easiest thing in the world to dislike Marty Whelan.

myflipflops

Sean Fitzpatrick and Bertie neck and neck.

Personifications of everything that went wrong with the country.

Kells...

Least:Brian Cowen
Most:Pat Kenny?

Badgermonkey

nosey rosie wrote: »

Oh great choices .... damn, wish I'd thought of them!

Well, I removed them as they're personal choices but in terms of the wider public:

Least: The Flynnstones (Padraig and Beverly)

Most: Brian O'Driscoll (Bring on the wrath)

krudler

Most: Zig
Least: Zag

Pighead

Most popular: John Least popular: Edward

Ghandee

Most, John.

Least, Edward.


FTW

Edit, ffs Pighead, too quick ^^

nosey rosie

Maybe this is in poor taste, but another least popluar suggestion is Gerry Ryan's daughter... the one who simply walked into a career at RTE. I really cannot stand her... nor the system she exemplifies ( blatant nepotism, its not what you know, but who you know in Ireland ).

Pompey Magnus

Most popular: Probably John Hume
Least popular: A close one between Bertie, Seanie Fitz or Larry Murphy.

nosey rosie

chillywilly wrote: »

I find it probably the most easiest thing in the world to dislike Marty Whelan.

Meh! You're just jealous of his luxuriant moustache.

Turtyturd

Cowen would be the least popular...good calls on Brunker and the ginger thing though.

Most popular is tougher because anyone with any degree of fame is gonna be hated by a lot of people but I will go with Mr Tayto.

Belle E. Flops

Least : Bertie or maybe David Drum

Most : Daithí Ó Sé maybe?

Daegerty

orourkeda wrote: »

Gay Byrne is a bollix

In fairness he left on a good note with the Late Late. If he never got involved with the RSA i would have a lot more respect for him

nosey rosie

Turtyturd wrote: »

Cowen would be the least popular...good calls on Brunker and the ginger thing though.

Most popular is tougher because anyone with any degree of fame is gonna be hated by a lot of people but I will go with Mr Tayto.

Mr Tayto... on the old packets they used to have a comic strip about "Tayto Castle" ... I think that would be a better seat of Government than what we have... I'm not even joking

Buceph

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Most: Brian O'Driscoll (Bring on the wrath)

Ronan?

Badgermonkey

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Least popular: A close one between Bertie, Seanie Fitz or Larry Murphy.

Giving Larry a 'dig out' wasn't as creepy or sinister.

davyjose

Daegerty wrote: »

In fairness he left on a good note with the Late Late. If he never got involved with the RSA i would have a lot more respect for him

Yeah, the gall of him trying to reduce the number of people who die in road accidents in this country?

What a cùnt!

krudler

davyjose wrote: »

Yeah, the gall of him trying to reduce the number of people who die in road accidents in this country?

What a cùnt!

Its not that, its that he preaches about road safety when he never passed a driving test, he got his license when there was a massive backlog and there were people just being handed them.

mikemac

Least popular, Anna Nolan.
I've read her articles, they're bitchy and scathing about most of her colleagues. I'd say she dines alone in the canteen

Most popular; John Hume, a shame he won't run for President. He'd cruise in and be a worthy choice

Badgermonkey

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Most : Daithí Ó Sé maybe?

Maybe not.

mikemac

krudler wrote: »

Its not that, its that he preaches about road safety when he never passed a driving test, he got his license when there was a massive backlog and there were people just being handed them.

Not quite true
Around 1979/1980, there was a backlog and people applying were given an amnesty. That was a once off occurrence and will never be repeated.

Gay Byrne is 76, there was a time in Ireland and your grandparents were probably included when you bought a license in the post office.
He wasn't given it, just used the system as it currently existed

You're right he never passed a test. But as a biker, he knows more about road safety then most drivers out there

nosey rosie

feelingstressed wrote: »

Most popular; John Hume, a shame he won't run for President. He'd cruise in and be a worthy choice

I second that. By his efforts, John Hume won the peace.... but lost his political power/career. A truly moral man.

sollar

It must be so frustrating for brian cowan to be hated more than sean fitzpatrick.

Least: Sean Fitz or Johnny Ronan
Most: I really can't think of one here that is universally popular.

Pauleta

davyjose wrote: »

Yeah, the gall of him trying to reduce the number of people who die in road accidents in this country?

What a cùnt!

He went on a crusade to drive up insurance prices for young people. No doubt he was probably in bed with the insurance companies.

Turtyturd

feelingstressed wrote: »

You're right he never passed a test. But as a biker, he knows more about road safety then most drivers out there

Don't wanna drag this off topic but that statement was pretty annoying the first time I read it...but then I re-read it and it kinda makes sense. It is possible that bikers know more about road safety than the average driver...just a shame they don't put it into practice...kinda like cyclist knowing what a red light is but ignoring it.

K4t

Least: Bertie Ahern
Most: Vincent Browne

Daegerty

davyjose wrote: »

Yeah, the gall of him trying to reduce the number of people who die in road accidents in this country?

What a cùnt!

If that was really the case he would have tried to get something done about this country's substandard roads.

anto2

least ,Bono
most ,?

síofra

Most: Ray D'Arcy

phasers

there is no most popular person in Ireland, everyone hates everyone.


Least: I dunno, Bono maybe?

efb

Most: Hmmmm

Least: Seanie Fitz

Muff_Daddy

Least: Seanie Fitzpatrick.

Most: Bill O'Herlihy.

CrazyRabbit

Should I be concerned that I don't know 90% of the people mentioned in this thread? Am I so out of touch????

Least : Brian Cowen.
Most : Me, when I'm buying a round of drinks for the entire pub.

gigino

Least popular ? that fellow with the beard from the public sector union, standing up for his secure, well paid and pensioned members ( average pay close to a grand a week ) at the expense of the private sector.

sollar

gigino wrote: »

Least popular ? that fellow with the beard from the public sector union, standing up for his secure, well paid and pensioned members ( average pay close to a grand a week ) at the expense of the private sector.

You know his name well gigino ...... "the fellow with the beard"???

CoalBucket

Public opinion in Ireland is great, we could name about 100 for least popular but very few for most popular.

Personally I would choose Seany Fitzpatrick and Bertie as least popular
For most popular prob Grainne Seioge or Miriam O'Callaghan

CoalBucket

feelingstressed wrote: »

Gay Byrne is 76, there was a time in Ireland and your grandparents were probably included when you bought a license in the post office.
He wasn't given it, just used the system as it currently existed

You're right he never passed a test. But as a biker, he knows more about road safety then most drivers out there

He may know a lot about road safety, he might not. Either way he is condescending

3ndahalfof6

me as least popular, sure nobody knows me.

most popular, Mary down the road sure there is always people calling to see her (i must let her know the red light needs fixing)

Nodin

nosey rosie wrote: »

Least popular... Bertie Ahern. Especially as he seems to have no shame for what he's done :mad:

Most popular? Thats difficult... maybe someone like Dara O'Briain? I can't think of an Irish person who is universally liked, outside of comedy

If you're going to do one of these, at least have a poll...

chakotha

Least: Brian Cowen
Most: Dave Fanning maybe? Though he keeps a low profile.