The most talented person in Ireland?

badabing106

Katie Taylor ?

Best female boxer of all time

Played in Irish national soccer team

Omackeral

pleas advice

Yer man who did the elephant polo

Birneybau

Present

wexie

Dermot Bannon....clearly!!

kingofclay

Based on competition it's probably one of the EPL players. Probably Robbie Brady in terms of pure talent. It's hard to say though, hurling and football are so minor but they're such institutions that even if Hurling or football were global sports, Ireland would probably still be a top 10 team most of the time(think of Croatia in football) So Joe Canning probably stakes a claim. McGregor perhaps but competition to get where Brady got is higher than McGregor. But McGregor is a phenom, Brady is a run of the mill EPL player.

Sheeps

wexie wrote: »

Dermot Bannon....clearly!!

No contest really.

Ultimate Seduction

McGregor

Samuel T. Cogley

There's this Dublin 7 based escort...

Birneybau

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

McGregor

Erin? She wasn't that great a dancer

munster87

Cillian Murphy

wexie

Omackeral wrote: »

mary-morrissey

....what have you got against poor Laura huh?

Conservatory

Shane magowan pity it only lasted an album or two.

LirW

Clearly Ryan Tubridy, closely followed by Marian Finucane.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It's a very difficult question, as it depends on the field. Sport, business, music, art, literature, photography, just as examples, all have sub divisions where the talent required is unique and not comparable with other disciplines.

Jerichoholic

If only there was some sort of televised National talent show where we could find out.

jamesbere

Close thread, it's me

_Brian

Talent is very specific.

I doubt Katie Taylor would beat one of my kids at swimming so does that mean she’s more talented than Katie Taylor ??

People may be the most talented at a specific task but there’s no such thing as “the most talented person in Ireland”

daithi1970

Paul McGrath., in his prime..

Signore Fancy Pants

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Cienciano

Patrick and John Collison

Your Face

Obama

Dakota Dan

wexie wrote: »

Dermot Bannon....clearly!!

Talking sh1te in an overpaid job, what exactly is his talent?

AllForIt

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Talking sh1te in an overpaid job, what exactly is his talent?

Talking sh1te!

DickSwiveller

Dónal Lunny is a very talented individual

the purple tin

It depends what field you're talking about, John McCormack in music for instance.

wexie

AllForIt wrote: »

Talking sh1te!

And getting paid lots for it :pac:

Ficheall

Neil Unkempt Flag wrote: »

It's a very difficult question

I think you mean it's a bollocks question.

Berserker

It has to be Joe. Where would the country be without him.

Summer wind

Finbar Furey.

retro:electro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZYQluJW-dM

Show me a finer display of Irish talent and I’ll show you a liar.

Autosport

^

Mysterypunter

John Hayes, tree sculptor from Co Waterford, on a mobile so can't link pictures, if anyone else can it would be appreciated.

Motivator

badabing106 wrote: »

Katie Taylor ?

Best female boxer of all time

Played in Irish national soccer team

You are an imbecile

those Collison stripe brothers. except they don't live in Ireland as they never would have gotten their business off the ground here.

Water John

The late Dr. Pearse Lyons, Alltech founder. Created a genuine world class business from a new animal nutrition approach, with yeast and enzymes.

johnayo

kingofclay wrote: »

Based on competition it's probably one of the EPL players. Probably Robbie Brady in terms of pure talent. It's hard to say though, hurling and football are so minor but they're such institutions that even if Hurling or football were global sports, Ireland would probably still be a top 10 team most of the time(think of Croatia in football) So Joe Canning probably stakes a claim. McGregor perhaps but competition to get where Brady got is higher than McGregor. But McGregor is a phenom, Brady is a run of the mill EPL player.

This question has too wide a span to get one person to cover everything.
I was the watching the hurling on the tele yesterday and I have to say that Joe Canning's shooting was a thing of beauty. I appreciate he is capable of missing the target on occasion, but the wrist action seems completely effortless as he drops the sliothar over the bar from distance. That is some talent. And this from a corkman.

KKkitty

The Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick. His passion for his job, always trying to save animals as much as he can, he seems like a very decent human being and he's not one to not take a risk to give an animal a better life. His work on bionic limbs is phenomenal.

spurshero

Anybody who thinks Katie Taylor is Ireland s most talented person needs to get a grip . A champion no doubt but in a thug minority sport . Couldn’t compare her to Harrington majors or Doherty winning world snooker or Keane s champions league etc. at least I couldn’t

chicorytip

JP Mc Manus who clearly is a genius in the sense of having accumulated a vast fortune by doing - well, exactly what nobody really seems to know. Does the fact that he is a tax exile disqualify him?

Omackeral

spurshero wrote: »

Anybody who thinks Katie Taylor is Ireland s most talented person needs to get a grip . A champion no doubt but in a thug minority sport . Couldn’t compare her to Harrington majors or Doherty winning world snooker or Keane s champions league etc. at least I couldn’t

The most boring fcuker ever in what's barely even a sport. Pass.

Hermy

KKkitty wrote: »

...he's not one to not take a risk...

Except when he's so tired he can barely stand up but still insists on operating on spinal injuries...

Sweetemotion

John Connors, such a diverse actor.

Omackeral

Sweetemotion wrote: »

John Connors, such a diverse actor.

You sound like you'd enjoy the John Connors Appreciation Thread.

AllForIt

Silly question really. Also the OP suggests that the most talented person is the land is known publicly. Not necessarily. Not that there is a 'most talented person' anyway. How would one gauge that?

Joe Dog

Padraig Harrington.

3 time major winner in a global sport that is extremely difficult to win multiple majors in.Over 20 professional tournaments won.

PGA tour player of the year in 2008.

Pugzilla

Cathal Ó Searcaigh

The Golden Miller

johnayo wrote: »

This question has too wide a span to get one person to cover everything.
I was the watching the hurling on the tele yesterday and I have to say that Joe Canning's shooting was a thing of beauty. I appreciate he is capable of missing the target on occasion, but the wrist action seems completely effortless as he drops the sliothar over the bar from distance. That is some talent. And this from a corkman.

Aye, if hurling was a global sport, Joe Canning would be our only truly top class hurler from the last 40 or 50 years

The Golden Miller

Joe Dog wrote: »

Padraig Harrington.

3 time major winner in a global sport that is extremely difficult to win multiple majors in.Over 20 professional tournaments won.

PGA tour player of the year in 2008.

He's our most talented golfer? Tell me, are you one of those partitionists?

Joe Dog

Wes Hoolahan.

Greatest soccer player of all time according to members of the irish media.So I doesn't think anyone else named here will be able to compete with that.

Joe Dog

The Golden Miller wrote: »

He's our most talented golfer? Tell me, are you one of those partitionists?

I don't want to get dragged into a McIlroy is he or isn't he irish debate (as he doesn't really want to be identified as irish) so I didn't mention him.