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Likeable Irish Celebs

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    #92
    TheBeardedLady
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    clappyhappy wrote: »
    Ray D'Arcy, one of the nicest guys I have met.

    Yeah, don't get the D'Arcy dislike from some people - he used to come into where I worked as a student and was always lovely and polite.


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    #93
    Knight who says Meh
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    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Yeah, don't get the D'Arcy dislike from some people - he used to come into where I worked as a student and was always lovely and polite.

    I think it may be his broadcasting style (or lack of). He's a bit of a rough diamond, speaks plainly, off the cuff and not always particulary articulately, the way our annoying opinionated mates would in the pub.
    I like that and having met Mr darcy I agree he's a nice guy.


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    #94
    TeddyTedson
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    Knight who says Meh wrote: »
    I think it may be his broadcasting style (or lack of). He's a bit of a rough diamond, speaks plainly, off the cuff and not always particulary articulately, the way our annoying opinionated mates would in the pub.
    I like that and having met Mr darcy I agree he's a nice guy.

    I used to love listening to him, but over the last couple of years he's become a miserable ****e. Talking about how awful this country is non stop, sighing down the radio and just general pessimism. He's one of the biggest hippicrits on radio too I feel. All talk, but then that's radio for you.


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    #95
    Lyger
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    I found Ray D'arcy not particularly friendly (and I wasn't biased, as at the time I only thought of him as the cheery children's TV presenter) but it could have been shyness too. Sometimes the latter is confused with/can come across as standoffishness.

    Ian Dempsey is a lovely man - totally the same as on radio.

    Ryan Tubridy's shameless FF endorsing on-air does my head in, but I do agree he seems like he could be a nice fella in real life.


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    #96
    Knight who says Meh
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    Lyger wrote: »
    I found Ray D'arcy not particularly friendly (and I wasn't biased, as at the time I only thought of him as the cheery children's TV presenter) but it could have been shyness too. Sometimes the latter is confused with/can come across as standoffishness.

    Ian Dempsey is a lovely man - totally the same as on radio.

    Ryan Tubridy's shameless FF endorsing on-air does my head in, but I do agree he seems like he could be a nice fella in real life.

    I think ray Darcy is shy, private and very uncomfortable with his 'celebrity'. I met him via work and he was utterly charming but when joe public would approach him he always seemed flummoxed!


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    #97
    branie2
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    I met Pauline MClynn when she was acting in the Taming of the Shrew in Glor in Ennis a few years ago. She was very friendly, and I got her autograph


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    #98
    eviltwin
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    Martin King and Simon Delaney....really decent skins

    Also met Larry Mullen when he came into the place I was working for a meal, he was just so humble and unassuming.


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    #99
    Son Of A Vidic
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    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Yeah, don't get the D'Arcy dislike from some people

    It's Ireland, some people just hate success and love begrudgery & misery.


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    #100
    Lyger
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    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    It's Ireland, some people just hate success and love begrudgery & misery.
    I have seen this suggestion a lot here - most recently a thread in the Rock forum about U2.
    Why is it seen as an Irish thing only? And why would the dislike of Ray D'arcy automatically be due to his success?

    There seemed to be quite a liking for Ray when he was a children's TV presenter and in the early years of his Today FM show.
    Dislike started to seep in though when he became increasingly sanctimonious on his show - complaining about Irish people yet not suggesting any alternatives himself to the country's woes (saying he'd leave the country if FG got into government summed up this "all talk" side to him) and when he became a parent, he didn't just become a parent, he became one of those "My point of view is more valid because I'm a parent" parents.
    This is only his radio persona for sure, but that's all most people have to go on.


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    #101
    Knight who says Meh
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    Its kinda entered the realm of urban legend but I WAS THERE! When..
    Will Ferrel, his brother and dad visited Longford looking up their O'farrel roots and not only visited Farrels pub accepted rounds graciously, bought their rounds and then went to a house party. Utterly without fan fare and pomp.


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    #102
    beks101
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    Brian Dowling is one of the nicest I've met.
    Mad as a box of badgers but a real genuine chap.

    ETA: Another vote for Martin King. A quiet man actually, very understated and inherently decent. Met him for the first time standing at the printer when I was interning in his workplace years ago, made some awkward small talk about how ridiculously early it was and then five minutes later he stopped by my desk with a big cup of coffee for me! Chuffed I was.


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    #103
    Luke92
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    Tail Docker wrote: »
    The lad who plays Fran in Love/Hate strikes me as being a sound fella.

    My mate met him out while he was with a girl. Friend asked was she a dirtbird or a ladybird. Fran wasn't too impressed!


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    #104
    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    mfceiling wrote: »
    . Mary Kennedy has to be in there.

    She has developed a good public persona, but scratch the surface and it's not all sunshine & lollipops.


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    #105
    retalivity
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    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Ah yeah BOD comes accross as a very sincere and genuine nice guy.

    Has the misfortune of dealing with o'driscoll a few times in a dublin establishment nearly 10 yrs ago...a complete Bellend, very uppity/snobbish. Not a once off either.

    My genuinely nice celeb would be Niall Quinn, met him a pub in Castleknock and he was sound. Also, Paul brady


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    #106
    Knight who says Meh
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Has the misfortune of dealing with o'driscoll a few times in a dublin establishment nearly 10 yrs ago...a complete Bellend, very uppity/snobbish. Not a once off either.

    My genuinely nice celeb would be Niall Quinn, met him a pub in Castleknock and he was sound. Also, Paul brady

    Perhaps this thread simply goes to prove the celebs , just like anyone, have good and bad days. Anytime Ive met Paul Brady he's been a dick!! But obviously was grand with you.


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    #107
    con___manx1
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    paul mcgrath is a really sound fella. I met him once at a charity golf event.I have read his book too all though i didn't tell him that.its a good read.


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    #108
    BrokenHero
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    Have met a lot of 'celebs' involved in Irish film actors and while most are sound apart from the odd few, Brendan Gleeson would stand out as being the soundest. Neil Jordan a close second.

    Colin Farrell, while I haven't met him myself, just attended a good few film premieres he's spoken at, has to be said, has come across as being very down to earth and generous with his time. On more than one occasion I've seen him yapping away to people that had just went up to him to say hello, for maybe ten, fifteen minutes or more, often to the point where he has delayed screening times. I mention that as he seems to have a but of reputation for being stand offish and from what I've seen at least, that couldn't be further from the truth.


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    #109
    suicide_circus
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    Knight who says Meh wrote: »
    I think ray Darcy is shy, private and very uncomfortable with his 'celebrity'. I met him via work and he was utterly charming but when joe public would approach him he always seemed flummoxed!
    He talks about his family and inane aspects of his personal life a lot for a private guy


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    #110
    corner of hells
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    I met Miriam O Callaghan and Des Bishop through work a few years both came across as being very sincere and nice with Des almost shy.
    Shortly afterwards I met Enda Kenny , very polite and friendly with none of the expected ****e.


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    #111
    dd972
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    Des Cahill seems a decent sort of chap,( never met the bloke though might be a sociopath ! )


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    #112
    Diabhal Beag
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    Michael Lyster is one of those few people that nobody has had a bad thing to say about in RTE. Lovely man.


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    #113
    Macavity.
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    Bono
    Twink
    Linda Martin


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    #114
    porsche959
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    Met Michael Flatley years ago, he is ok, surprisingly down-to-earth. Smoked rollies. I kind you not.


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    #115
    porsche959
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    Shortly afterwards I met Enda Kenny , very polite and friendly with none of the expected ****e.

    He's a politician, and a very successful one. What did you expect him to do, nut you in the balls?


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    #116
    porsche959
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    Lyger wrote: »
    Ryan Tubridy's shameless FF endorsing on-air does my head in, but I do agree he seems like he could be a nice fella in real life.

    Knew him slightly at college and people would say he was a born politician, actually most people thought he would go into politics.


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    #117
    corner of hells
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    porsche959 wrote: »
    He's a politician, and a very successful one. What did you expect him to do, nut you in the balls?

    Ohhhhhh Im sorry for posting. Xxxxx


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    #118
    TheBeardedLady
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    Ohhhhhh Im sorry for posting. Xxxxx

    I think it's a fair question though. I'm sure he's fine (I don't know anything about the kind of person he really is) but politicians are not going to be rude to the people who vote for them. I wouldn't expect anything else, even if he really was a prik.


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    #119
    porsche959
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    Ohhhhhh Im sorry for posting. Xxxxx

    Didn't mean to be rude, but I think even the likes of Norman Tebbit would be polite on meet and greets with members of the public.


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    #120
    electronic
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    I'll second whoever said Saoirse Ronan.I met her in my work a few weeks back and she couldn't have been nicer.Very friendly and funny and was quite happy to chat away


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    #121
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Pecker Dunne was a nice man.


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