RIP Bobby O' Donnelly (1902 - 2019)

drillyeye · 02-04-2018 9:04pm #1

I don't think anyone can contest his contributions to the fields of science and sport, not in the last century anyway. May he rest in peace.

I personally think that the live debate between him and Jimmy McGillycuddy in 1990 was a turning point for what we consider today to be "fair play", both on and off the pitch. A standard yet to be surpassed.

His theories on the potato blight left a lot to be desired, but he made up for that in spades with the "Erect a Sausage" mandate he single-handedly got through legislation in 1999.

RIP in peace, Bobby O' Donnelly.

dmc17 · 02-04-2018 9:07pm

He's got another year left in him it seems

Falthyron · 02-04-2018 9:08pm

Why are the best of us robbed of life so young? Chap was only in his 117th year. There's no justice in the world.

Hector Bellend · 02-04-2018 9:08pm

Good Man Bobby

drillyeye · 02-04-2018 9:09pm

dmc17 wrote: »

He's got another year left in him it seems

They always said he was a planner, had the coffin bought and paid for before you could say "he had the coffin bought and paid for".

thelad95 · 02-04-2018 9:10pm

Um.. who?

Your Face · 02-04-2018 9:10pm

2016 strikes again.

dmc17 · 02-04-2018 9:11pm

drillyeye wrote: »

They always said he was a planner, had the coffin bought and paid for before you could say "he had the coffin bought and paid for".

Did he pay by credit card?

drillyeye · 02-04-2018 9:12pm

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Good Man Bobby

Bobby "grab them by the hind legs" O'Donnelly. The best of us all.

For those interested in attending the wake next year, it'll be held out the back of the shed. RSVP

drillyeye · 02-04-2018 9:16pm

dmc17 wrote: »

Did he pay by credit card?

Well, as was the way with Bobby "you cant be saying that" O'Donnelly, he saved every bean and pea that came his way.

Wasn't a believer in the old credit game, all paid for in full with the savings from his billy-goat milk factory. Straight up, one shot.

Outlaw Pete · 02-04-2018 9:17pm

They'll have to use a DeLorean as a hearse.

DanMurphy · 02-04-2018 9:32pm

"There's nowt like an O' Donnelly skinless sausage", as my old mother used to say.

drillyeye · 02-04-2018 9:39pm

DanMurphy wrote: »

"There's nowt like an O' Donnelly skinless sausage", as my old mother used to say.

He could barely keep it in his cacks. Off he'd go down the shop to buy a pound of butter, 2 hours later you'd find him in a bush, trousers round his neck and a red raw knob in his calloused hands.

But he was always careful to keep the public and private life separate. "A man of two halves", as he said during the Skibbereen massacre of 1981.

AllForIt · 02-04-2018 9:41pm

Can't even find him on a google search.

drillyeye · 02-04-2018 9:50pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Can't even find him on a google search.

Theres a reason for that. After working for the contra's in '88 a lot of his personal information was redacted by KGB.

He always said he fancied being a career diplomat, but the severe tourettes and chronic diarrhoea nipped that aspiration in the bud.

Still, you'd always find him in the bins out the back of the American embassy of a Tuesday, "checking the function, checking the function!" he'd say again and again.

Top man. Rest in RIP

Defunkd · 02-04-2018 9:52pm

Never heard of him but that's a good irish name.

If anyone passed a flippant or comedic remark about a celebrity who died, they would have gotten a mod warning/ban by now... but since this guy isn't as impottant, who gaf. 'What if members of his family were reading this?!!!!!!', 'don't be so insensitive, you absolute scumbag!' etc; etc.

drillyeye · 02-04-2018 9:56pm

Defunkd wrote: »

Never heard of him but that's a good irish name.

If anyone passed a flippant or comedic remark about a celebrity who died, they would have gotten a mod warning/ban by now... but since this guy isn't as impottant, who gaf. 'What if members of his family were reading this?!!!!!!', 'don't be so insensitive, you absolute scumbag!' etc; etc.

Hold the fook up there, hoss!

When the funeral procession passes by every single gaf in the country, you better bow your head, lowly dog!

FrKurtFahrt · 02-04-2018 10:11pm

People seem to forget the contribution he made to the ball dancing community. He was a martyr to it, and annually presented the Na nCopaleen Cup for the most innovative dancer with a wooden leg.

We will not see his like again, R.I.P. old friend.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 02-04-2018 10:17pm

He was born at a very young age when he was very young but he didn’t waste a single day in his life, he wasted weeks on end on the batter with the shaughnessy o’toole brothers. He was wile craic when he was pissed, he was likely to say anything and usually did. He will be missed most by those who miss him most.