Mullingar to get a Niall Horan museum

Xavi6

Yes AHers, I shit you not.

The Joe Dolan statue is probably fair enough but this? The whole town should hang their heads in shame...unless you think this is a wonderful idea and it's great to see a town supporting "the arts", encouraging tourism etc?

Pilgrimages to the Niall Horan museum, sells itself really.

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Niall Horan museum set for Mullingar

A museum celebrating the career of One Direction star Niall Horan is set to open in his hometown of Mullingar next summer.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper, local councillor Aiden Davitt said: ''Of course we want to honour one of our leading lights. Niall is always promoting Mullingar around the world and has said it's something he would support, as did his mother Maura.''

''Fans come here every day looking for Niall's house - they also go to Tesco looking for his dad Bobby - so it would be great to have somewhere for them to go.''

He added: ''Niall would be the star of the show as our most famous son. We would love to get some of his items to display there for fans, as well as interactive footage of his performances around the town.''

Mullingar already boasts a statue of the late singer Joe Dolan.

Danger781

Two questions come to mind..

Who came up with this idea and who is funding it?

theblaqueguy

i deserve a museum more than that clown they have ruined music i want to cut my ears off when i hear their music

brummytom

Fucking hell.

Danger781

theblaqueguy wrote: »

i deserve a museum more than that clown they have ruined music i want to cut my ears off when i hear their music

Did you enjoy typing that on your typewriter? With your raybans? Is that scarf keeping you warm?

Stop attempting to be some sort of hipster. Hating conformity.

That's a silly reaction to any sort of music really. Their music is popular for a reason. It's catchy. It's fun. It's nice to listen to. I'm not a fan of theirs by any means, but I see the appeal. Don't be so instantly dismissive of all things popular.

deco nate

Oh dear lord! if you are out there, take me... Take me now cos I don't wanna live no more!!

deco nate

Danger781 wrote: »

Did you enjoy typing that on your typewriter? With your raybans? Is that scarf keeping you warm?

Stop attempting to be some sort of hipster. Hating conformity.

That's a silly reaction to any sort of music really. Their music is popular for a reason. It's catchy. It's fun. It's nice to listen to. I'm not a fan of theirs by any means, but I see the appeal. Don't be so instantly dismissive of all things popular.

**** that ****! Really.

HighClass

Danger781 wrote: »

Did you enjoy typing that on your typewriter? With your raybans? Is that scarf keeping you warm?

Stop attempting to be some sort of hipster. Hating conformity.

That's a silly reaction to any sort of music really. Their music is popular for a reason. It's catchy. It's fun. It's nice to listen to. I'm not a fan of theirs by any means, but I see the appeal. Don't be so instantly dismissive of all things popular.

Only reason it's popular is because they have millions of pre teens and teenage girls buying it, which is only happening because they were on xfactor and drilled into peoples psyches every week on primetime tv for a few months while they were being groomed for fame. Their music really is terrible. I'm not hating on pop music either, I like some pop tracks here and there.

Muahahaha

What a dumb idea. Do Mullingar Town Council not realise that in 5 years time everyone will be saying "Niall who"?

Museums are supposed to house things of historical record, not for a flash in the pan.

And as for Bressie being included in the museum too, ffs what has he actually done ? If he was anyway successful in the music business he'd be based in London, not Mullingar.

Tilikum

His accent makes me want to vomit.

jill_valentine

Oh God no.

Karl Stein

Phew! I thought it was going to be a museum dedicated to that priest who disrupts sporting events the mad bastard.

Sunnyisland

I think it's great sure did he not build a Airport in Mayo ? .

SV

HighClass wrote: »

Only reason it's popular is because they have millions of pre teens and teenage girls buying it, which is only happening because they were on xfactor and drilled into peoples psyches every week on primetime tv for a few months while they were being groomed for fame. Their music really is terrible. I'm not hating on pop music either, I like some pop tracks here and there.

I'm not a fan of them but their music certainly isn't 'terrible'.

gobnaitolunacy

One wonders what the exhibits will be...a life size waxwork and maybe pieces of True Toast he had for breakfast?

Fcuk sakes he's a kid, as a 'star' he's a flash in the pan nonentity. There's a lot more worthy things that you could put into a museum imho.

Dicky Pride

There's a woman in mullingar, I believe she's a sister/nun...she has dedicated her life to caring for the sick and needy. She has been to Somalia on aid missions also. She is always taking part in fund raisers...giving up her time, always to help others. And all this, while looking after her own sick mother.

Material possessions mean nothing to her, all she cares about is easing the suffering of others and trying to instil a better standard of living on her fellow men and women.

But no..yeah...give niall Horan a museum.

kneemos

Danger781 wrote: »

Did you enjoy typing that on your typewriter? With your raybans? Is that scarf keeping you warm?

Stop attempting to be some sort of hipster. Hating conformity.

That's a silly reaction to any sort of music really. Their music is popular for a reason. It's catchy. It's fun. It's nice to listen to. I'm not a fan of theirs by any means, but I see the appeal. Don't be so instantly dismissive of all things popular.

I honestly could not tell you if I've ever heard One Direction.

Bland and generic.

humanji

I think it's a brilliant idea. They'll bring in a fortune for the town, and once he disappears into obscurity, they'll replace it with something else.

SV

kneemos wrote: »

I honestly could not tell you if I've ever heard One Direction.

Bland and generic.

How do you know they're bland and generic if you don't know whether you've heard them

GLaDOS

It'll bring in money, as cringey as it is

thebostoncrab

The OP is misleading, it's not a Niall museum, it's a museum dedicated to the music of Mullingar and the midlands, Niall is just a subject of it because he is the town most famous resident today.

Baron Kurtz

SV wrote: »

I'm not a fan of them but their music certainly isn't 'terrible'.

Cup of Tea. Enough said.

Wattle

Danger781 wrote: »

Did you enjoy typing that on your typewriter? With your raybans? Is that scarf keeping you warm?

Stop attempting to be some sort of hipster. Hating conformity.

That's a silly reaction to any sort of music really. Their music is popular for a reason. It's catchy. It's fun. It's nice to listen to. I'm not a fan of theirs by any means, but I see the appeal. Don't be so instantly dismissive of all things popular.

Why wouldn't you dislike conformity? Just because a few million people like something doesn't mean we all have to fall in line and say it's great.

Omackeral

What's the obsession with this 'hunk'? He looks like Ellen DeGeneres.

It will bring in screaming girls though, Half who will be mad for all things 1 Direction and half who will have mistaken it for a shrine to middle America's favourite lesbian chat show hostess.

kneemos

SV wrote: »

How do you know they're bland and generic if you don't know whether you've heard them

Good point young man,but the chances are I probably have heard them.

golfball37

If they are successful -well then I say well done. If people are into that sort of thing and are willing to spend money its a no brainer for Mullingar.

Of course its embarrassing but I find the Gathering embarrassing too if I'm being honest.

Too Tough To Die

Dicky Pride wrote: »

There's a woman in mullingar, I believe she's a sister/nun...she has dedicated her life to caring for the sick and needy. She has been to Somalia on aid missions also. She is always taking part in fund raisers...giving up her time, always to help others. And all this, while looking after her own sick mother.

Material possessions mean nothing to her, all she cares about is easing the suffering of others and trying to instil a better standard of living on her fellow men and women.

But no..yeah...give niall Horan a museum.

Well, sounds like she wouldn't appreciate her own museum, and who would want to go to it anyways?

TomoBhoy

Fecking ejits seriously like!

TomCleverly

Dicky Pride wrote: »

There's a woman in mullingar, I believe she's a sister/nun...she has dedicated her life to caring for the sick and needy. She has been to Somalia on aid missions also. She is always taking part in fund raisers...giving up her time, always to help others. And all this, while looking after her own sick mother.

Material possessions mean nothing to her, all she cares about is easing the suffering of others and trying to instil a better standard of living on her fellow men and women.

But no..yeah...give niall Horan a museum.

It's not so much what he has accomplished or done, it's more of the fact that a Niall Horan musuem in his home town is bout to rake in a decent amount of cash. No one really cares about what he's done there it's all about $$$$.

diomed

I had never heard of Niall Horan, and barely hear about One Direction.
If that level of fame is the benchmark then the country would be covered in statues.

foxyboxer

*i don't want to live on this planet any more meme*

kneemos

Museum is probably a poor description for what they're planning.

lahalane

Lot of jealousy here...

TomoBhoy

lahalane wrote: »

Lot of jealousy here...

Why they are just a manufactured pop group nothing special,theres a conveyor belt turning out crap music, I didn't see Bray want to start one when your man was in OTT.

Jerichoholic

Don't worry, it'll just be an empty building devoid of anything worthwhile or of any real meaning, aimed at stealing money from kids who don't know any better. Just like 1D.

RikkFlair

His section of the museum should just be a photo of Eoin McLove with the caption "I've no willy"

lahalane

TomoBhoy wrote: »

Why they are just a manufactured pop group nothing special,theres a conveyor belt turning out crap music, I didn't see Bray want to start one when your man was in OTT.

Because people immediatedly give out about the band instead of thinking how good it might work out for Mullingar and their other musicians.

...Maybe Bray missed a trick.

force eleven

I see they're also putting up a statue of Niall Horan in Mullingar town centre. It has a problem though. It keeps leaning in one direction.

I'm here all week...

kneemos

lahalane wrote: »

Because people immediatedly give out about the band instead of thinking how good it might work out for Mullingar and their other musicians.

...Maybe Bray missed a trick.

I think people see the cynicism of the thing.

cursai

No mention of a museum

lahalane

kneemos wrote: »

I think people see the cynicism of the thing.

I think theyre jealous and using the cynicism as a means to give out about it.

ArmaniJeanss

Dicky Pride wrote: »

There's a woman in mullingar, I believe she's a sister/nun...she has dedicated her life to caring for the sick and needy. She has been to Somalia on aid missions also. She is always taking part in fund raisers...giving up her time, always to help others. And all this, while looking after her own sick mother.

Material possessions mean nothing to her, all she cares about is easing the suffering of others and trying to instil a better standard of living on her fellow men and women.

But no..yeah...give niall Horan a museum.

Possibility of me visiting NiallHoran/MullingarMusic Museum if visiting the town. > 0%.
Possibility of me visiting CharityWomans Museum if visting the town. 0%.

foxyboxer

Freedom of the town, yeah, cool, fair play.

A dedicated museum to a pop star? Does Mullingar want to be Craggy Island?

The Dom

Hopefully some Mullingar scamp will draw a large 'W' right before the H when they put up the 'Niall Horan Museum' sign.

kneemos

lahalane wrote: »

I think theyre jealous and using the cynicism as a means to give out about it.

That's very cynical.

castletownman

Meanwhile in New Ross, they have a museum dedicated to JFK.

I don't know if you have heard of him

Collie D

Who is funding it? If it's a private busines venture who cares? If it's council funded is it worth it?

Have no interest in ever visiting the place but each to their own.

anncoates

This thread will only go in one direction.

TerrorFirmer

diomed wrote: »

I had never heard of Niall Horan, and barely hear about One Direction.
If that level of fame is the benchmark then the country would be covered in statues.

I don't care for one direction - though I think their music is catchy at worst - but ignorant comments like that make me laugh. even if you have zero interest, you'd have to be a total cave dweller to not have heard of one direction. their 'level of fame' is massive. People are comparing it to beatlemania.

Mint Aero

Well done to all those involved! Fab idea. Niall is an inspiration for a generation. Fab.

lahalane

kneemos wrote: »

That's very cynical.

Cashing in on popular and trending things is always intelligent. Do you think theyd have sold that many burgers in the Van without the **** Schillachi shirts?

To criticise the idea of the museum because Niall Horan doesnt deserve it is either jealousy or selfishness or both.