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What famous Irish person has the most annoying accent?

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    #122
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    What - no mention of Mary-Lou yet?
    What kind of accent is that anyway? She doesn’t even try to do a “soft Irish T” anymore, now it’s just “sh”. All rye-sh. The fye-sh against injustice. It mye-sh take a long time. Uuurgh


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    #123
    Oink
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    On the other hand, I wish people would leave Britn... uh... Katie Taylor alone. A quiet and humble lady who comes back with a cartload of medals for her country deserves a little better than being mocked for her voice.


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    #124
    CharlesMartel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭CharlesMartel


    Saoirse Ronans Dub patois


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    #125
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,806 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    CharlesMartel wrote: »
    Saoirse Ronans Dub patois

    Sounds like a boards user name


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    #126
    veryangryman
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    Sonia o Sullivan always grinded my gears.

    Special mention for any sports person(usually female but there's exceptions) who says "I suppose" 50 times in a 2 minute interview!

    My ears!!


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    #127
    Oberkon
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭Oberkon


    Not famous of course but well known Lisa Murphy the one Flatley dumped
    Actually his accent is desperate too !


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    #128
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    PJ Gallagher. Nasal f*cker. It’s like listening to a really annoying kinda-broken drill.


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    #129
    josip
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    I respectfully propose Joan Burton.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCmzvzCmhI


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    #130
    whisky_galore
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    PJ Gallagher. Nasal f*cker. It’s like listening to a really annoying kinda-broken drill.

    Bordering on junkie-like whine.


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    #131
    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    Dara O'Briain, always looks like he's literally eating his accent.

    Yeah, we know you're Irish, so are millions of other people, what's your point?


    Ronnie Whelan's lived on Merseyside since 1979 or thereabouts, plus it's a place with a very strong accent that isn't miles removed from ours, so I'd cut him a bit of slack there, people's accents can change throughout their lives, more subtly though in later life.


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    #132
    Hangdogroad
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    Miriam O Callaghan. Her voice is like nails on a blackboard.


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    #133
    zerosugarbuzz
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    No idea what her name is but who ever is the presenter at 9am Saturday morning on newstalk literally gives me the heeby geebies have to turn her straight off.


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    #134
    Asdfgh2020
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    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    No idea what her name is but who ever is the presenter at 9am Saturday morning on newstalk literally gives me the heeby geebies have to turn her straight off.

    The weather lady from the whest who occasionally appears in the lovely ‘gúnaí’ .......can’t of think her name.......she has that real ‘whest of eyr-land’ lilt/intonation


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    #135
    breezy1985
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    Asdfgh2020 wrote: »
    The weather lady from the whest who occasionally appears in the lovely ‘gúnaí’ .......can’t of think her name.......she has that real ‘whest of eyr-land’ lilt/intonation

    Is that the one with the stupid over the top weather report that went viral ?


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    #136
    Fuascailteoir
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    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Another vote for mcgregor.

    How is anyone is expected to take that seriously?

    The whole tough guy image evaporates as soon as he opens his mouth and that little drone escapes. I remember people saying he had a career ahead of him in hollywood but that was never going to happen with pipsqueak vocal cords


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    #137
    Omackeral
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    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Is that the one with the stupid over the top weather report that went viral ?

    Don't make unnecessary assumptions


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    #138
    Asdfgh2020
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Don't make unnecessary assumptions

    No I think that was the lovely Siobhan Ryan....??


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    #139
    AndyBoBandy
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    MOD: Thread needs a poll (mail in ballots allowed)


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    #140
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    I see that Mary-Lou is not listed. Once again the FF-FG old boys’ club have put their own agendas ahead of the need of the workers. Unfortunately we are well used to this appalling something something blah blah etc.


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    #141
    FearanPhoist99
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    Bishop of Meath used to call the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirt. And would go on for ages in this ponderous voice. Confirmations went on for hours.



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    #142
    FearanPhoist99
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    Philip Boucher Hayes sonorous voice on the radio, he constantly sounds smug, he can't help it I guess.



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    #143
    Quantum Erasure
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    don't trust the poll results, they didn't survive the migration

    although looking at them, maybe they did? who knows...



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    #144
    joseywhales
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    The YouTube guy from the midlands. And he says "top of the morning", he has no shame.



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    #145
    Dempo1
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    So many to choose from OP, but I know the list was not meant to be exhaustive.

    Joe Duffy ( Inabilty in general pronunciation)

    Lord Philip Boucher Hayes (Pompous in over drive)

    Miriam "Genuinely" O Callagahan

    Leo Varadkar "We're all in this together"

    Not So Famous Category (Despite what they think 😁)

    Brian Dowling, Ghastly

    Martin King,, "Gowanoutofdat"

    Vougue Williams

    Ronan Keating "Shorry"

    Alan Hughes & Karl Broderick (A perfect match made in the world of annoyance)

    Eddie Hobbs (I fear he's back 😳)

    Post edited by Dempo1 on

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #146
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115148422#Comment_115148422

    But blindboy is urban



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    #147
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115148432#Comment_115148432

    the winner , in fact any Protestant golfer that moves to the southern states of America



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    #148
    Dempo1
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118666175#Comment_118666175

    RTE could help us however, put him on berween 2am to 4am weeknights 😁

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #149
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Explain to me how accents are as "important as the clothes we wear in how we attempt to project ourselves to the world". What am I missing here? We choose to buy and wear our clothes, my accent is something I do not think about, I speak a certain way because of my upbringing and groups I identified with. For the most part accents are subconscious so how can they be compared to the clothes we choose to wear?



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    #150
    forestgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭forestgirl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115151926#Comment_115151926

    Well don't listen then



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    #151
    Cal4567
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭Cal4567


    Heather Humphries TD



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