I went to school with .....

somesoldiers

Pat McGrath, RTEs western correspondent, getting a lot of work recently since the coastguard tragedy.

I remember him in primary school. He used to go around the handball alley at break time, pretending he had a microphone, interviewing players and commentating on the game... and here he is 30 odd years later, real microphone in hand on my tele box

Did you go to school with anyone famous and did they show early signs of stardom?

Teddington Cuddlesworth

somesoldiers wrote: »

Did you go to school with anyone famous?

You

Pawwed Rig

somesoldiers wrote: »

Did you go to school with anyone famous and did they show early signs of their stardom?

No. Did you?

Alf Stewart.

Donald Fisher from Home and Away.

Lol, we used to call him "flat head" as a nickname

Birneybau

Myself. I'm verrrrrrry famous.

Crea

Dolores o'Riordan from The Cranberries.
She was really nice.

nullzero

Jam sandwiches in my lunchbox, ah the 80's,a simpler time.

Jack the Stripper

Enda, he was a tool back then and still is now. Do I win?

Laois_Man

My metalwork teacher made national front page news and did a few years in the big house for touching up a student

Does that count?

snowflaker

eh... no.

PREG1967

the Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion

Samsgirl

Keith Barry lived around the corner from me at home. We used to get the school bus together. His sister was in my class in school.

Zaph

Richard Boyd Barrett was in the same year as me for the first few years of primary school, but in the other class. My class were a bunch of under-achievers by comparison. Thankfully.

Beyondgone

PREG1967 wrote: »

the Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion

A sound bunch of lads.

Lots of the Captains of Industry here in Ireland because "Killiney". Most of them just followed Daddy into whatever line Daddy was in. See some of them on VB or businessey shows. A couple went into politics.

Stheno

Does college count?

Glenster

Laura Whitmore in junior and senior infants.

Ted111

Pat McGrath, RTE News, Boards.ie.

freshpopcorn

Zaph wrote: »

Richard Boyd Barrett was in the same year as me for the first few years of primary school, but in the other class. My class were a bunch of under-achievers by comparison. Thankfully.

Is Richard a high achiever?

Cupcake_Crisis

Yer one kelly from Tallafornia, does that count as famous? She was actually nice, little bit weird. Used to lick people.

For Forks Sake

60% of Westlife and about 15% of Castlerea prisons inmates.

PREG1967

they were the school bullies but i was tall so they left me alone

Beyondgone wrote: »

A sound bunch of lads.

Lots of the Captains of Industry here in Ireland because "Killiney". Most of them just followed Daddy into whatever line Daddy was in. See some of them on VB or businessey shows. A couple went into politics.

franglan

Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, better known by his stage name Martin Sheen was in my year in Uni ~for a year... Lab partner for a day, quiet guy wanted to learn was having a lovely time at it! English and Earth and Ocean Science - "sure he'll never get a job with that!"

jimmytwotimes 2013

a lot of arseholes

Cutie 3.14

Went to school with a contestant who won the Voice of Ireland...not famous now of course but had a bit of fame at the time

Yourself isit

Ted111 wrote: »

Pat McGrath, RTE News, Boards.ie.

We've done him.

me_right_one

jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: »

a lot of arseholes

We must have went to the same school so. Hi Jimmy!!!

jimmytwotimes 2013

me_right_one wrote: »

We must have went to the same school so. Hi Jimmy!!!

Its been a while me_right_one



arsehole..........

Sultan of Bling

Joe O'Reilly (wife killer) and author Roddy Doyle was my geography teacher.

freshpopcorn

Sultan of Bling wrote: »

Joe O'Reilly (wife killer) and author Roddy Doyle was my geography teacher.

Did what Joe did surprise you?

Mars Bar

I went to college with JackSepticEye (youtube gamer with over 15 million subscribers). Minted and very famous and nothing to do with our college course.

snowflaker

Our teacher was accused of burning the school down

Laois_Man

Got to page 3 and nobody has mentioned Bono yet

Shurely shum mishtake?

Insect Overlord

2 lads from my year in school are Munster/Ireland rugby players.

sligojoek

Writer Julian Gough . He set one of his books in an orphanage which was loosely based on Nenagh CBS. He name checked myself and a few other lads and the principal in it, complete with our nicknames of the day.

Rugby player Trevor Hogan was a few years behind us.

rpmcmurphy

I went to school with two famous people. One was called trepidation the other utter ****in reluctance

Outlaw Pete

Ed Byrne. He was in the year above me, ironically*

Kept to himself. Bot of a loner. Was mad into Prince.









*Just put there that so Ed might be tempted into signing up to tell me there's nothing irionic about that.

PARlance

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Did what Joe did surprise you?

Yip, he got "most likely to kill" in the yearbook but they never thought he would get married.

Arghus

No one. But I'll be a household name someday.

Beyondgone

Arghus wrote: »

No one. But I'll be a household name someday.

You already are. Love the Catalogue.

PowerToWait

somesoldiers wrote: »

Pat McGrath, RTEs western correspondent, getting a lot of work recently since the coastguard tragedy.

Oldcastle's most famous son at this stage.

I knew Pat in college. I remember him practising for his ORTE interview. That's 19 flipping years ago. He was a daycent lad.

Keyzer

Repeated my leaving cert with Nicky Byrne. Seemed like a decent bloke back then, bit of a meathead but a nice guy. Was always jabbering on about starting a boy band so fair play to him...

Boom_Bap

For Forks Sake wrote: »

60% of Westlife and about 15% of Castlerea prisons inmates.

I had 20% of Westlife in my class!

Parchment

I went to horse riding lessons with Tony Ryans children if that counts.

Munster/Ireland prop David Kilcoyne was in my class. Don't remember him playing rugby ever when we were kids.

Lovely Bloke

Went to school and played football with Brian (no "y" back then) from Westlife, sound fella really, but he had a hard time of it, he was bullied out of a couple of schools. That's what happened to fellas who were in Billy Barry at the time I suppose.

I've met him once or twice since and he's always happy to chat.

Boom_Bap

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

Went to school and played football with Brian (no "y" back then) from Westlife, sound fella really, but he had a hard time of it, he was bullied out of a couple of schools. That's what happened to fellas who were in Billy Barry at the time I suppose.

I've met him once or twice since and he's always happy to chat.

So it looks like we were in the same school

Being beaten on MegaZone was probably worse than being in the Billy Barrys for him

Winterlong

Professor Brian Cox.

Lovely Bloke

Boom_Bap wrote: »

So it looks like we were in the same school

Well. I knew him in little and big Davids, he also went to DossMini and HardScoil

Boom_Bap

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

Well. I knew him in little and big Davids, he also went to DossMini and HardScoil

Ah right, so we didn't go to school together, I'm a Dosser allum.

nozzferrahhtoo

Did primary school.... so I guess age 4 to 12....... sitting pretty much next to Brian O'Driscoll for the entire 8 years. There was an article once interviewing one of the teachers we shared at the time on his memories of Brian's early days at the school. Said Teacher went on to be the (current?) principle of the school I believe.

Ralf and Florian

Pat Spillane was my geography and P.E. teacher.