Someone you really admire.

Stihl waters

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I don't get the alpha male thing. Surely, what makes alpha males alpha is just the way they are rather than affectations to the same effect. At the very least, having to pay and buy the silence of prostitutes alone is a disqualifier IMO.

I remember reading about alpha/beta BS years ago and the author put it succinctly that an alpha is someone who convinces you they can do it and the beta is someone who actually does, his summation was that alphas while not really believing in the whole alpha/beta nonsense is that if you want to talk about it go to an alpha and if you want it done go to a beta, in a roundabout way they perceived the beta to be the more dominant and the alpha to be a peacock showing off its feathers

Deemed as Normal

Boyant Slat & Barack Obama

doublejobbing 2

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I spent a bit of time over the weekend catching up on the Covid-19 situation in Ireland. Reading articles, watching the RTÉ Player etc. What struck me is how brilliant a job Dr. Tony Houlohan is doing in representing the wider medical community during this extraordinary crisis. He's a voice of authority and principal, and very much in command of his brief. I have tremendous sympathy for all leaders involved in managing the crisis - trying to balance public health with the wider needs of society is a delicate balancing act, and they don't have the gift of foresight.

He seems like a top fellow, and I'm sure he will be awarded the highest civic honours available to a citizen of Ireland.

Holohan is still loyally trotting out the line that 2 percent of Irish cases are related to travel. He remains all but silent on the issue of travel, and has done so since the crisis began, but was reluctant to re open pubs when we had 9 cases per day.

He presided over the release of a rigged study that linked the re opening of pubs with a September surge, the study completely ignoring the impact that the return of schools and colleges had on the numbers, and also ignoring our open border.

He is a government Yes man who takes part in what are likely pre arranged show downs with his bosses so they can give the impression they still have some independence by occasionally ignoring him.

If he had any cop on he would use one of his public conferences to point how Australia and New Zealand wiped this out with pro active approaches to travel. He would hammer home how the virus would have all been wiped out here by early July using these methods. And he would threaten to resign, along with NPHET, if the government didn't take on this recommendation.

But he won't. Too many advantages to playing this long game.

Drifter50

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I spent a bit of time over the weekend catching up on the Covid-19 situation in Ireland. Reading articles, watching the RTÉ Player etc. What struck me is how brilliant a job Dr. Tony Houlohan is doing in representing the wider medical community during this extraordinary crisis. He's a voice of authority and principal, and very much in command of his brief. I have tremendous sympathy for all leaders involved in managing the crisis - trying to balance public health with the wider needs of society is a delicate balancing act, and they don't have the gift of foresight.

He seems like a top fellow, and I'm sure he will be awarded the highest civic honours available to a citizen of Ireland.

Never, never never
How is it that he presided over the Cervical Smear Shambles and its never even mentioned. I`m sure Mna na hEireann and their families would recoil in disgust at even a whiff of any awards thank you very much. The man deserves nothing and he is welcome to pedal off into the sunset and leave us the heck alone

Stihl waters

Drifter50 wrote: »

Never, never never
How is it that he presided over the Cervical Smear Shambles and its never even mentioned. I`m sure Mna na hEireann and their families would recoil in disgust at even a whiff of any awards thank you very much. The man deserves nothing and he is welcome to pedal off into the sunset and leave us the heck alone

He's doing a good job with what he's at now, I couldn't think of a better man at the helm, especially with a sick wife at home, it can't be easy every day to face the naysayers and begrudgers

fryup

Donald Trump

well, for this alone

pity it went pear shaped after that

Deemed as Normal

fryup wrote: »

Donald Trump

well, for this alone

pity it went pear shaped after that

Yeah, but we all know that the difference is that there aren't killers in public office in America!

Besides, we all know that Trump went out of his way to pay compliments about Putin.

EmmetSpiceland

Dr. Rachel Levine, not only for receiving the nomination as President Biden’s Assistant Secretary of Health but also for her work fighting the “opioid crisis” in the States.

WrenBoy

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

So in an effort to lighten the tone I'm asking you to name a person you really admire, and why you admire them.

Tony EH

Ah well, sure you're only human.

Deemed as Normal

Elton John. A fantastic piano player, and yet probably hasn't really even practiced on the instrument since he was a teenager.

keano_afc

I really admire people who have integrity and don't deviate from their morals when the wind starts blowing the other direction.

Tom Gilmartin is an example. Its appalling what him and his family were put through by cruel, greedy, corrupt public representatives. All because he was honest.

ShatterAlan

Vladimir Putin.


Brilliant statesman. Took a massive country that had gone from bad under Soviet rule to worse under a vodka soaked nutcase like Yelstin who basically signed away half the country's wealth to Wall Street scavengers and their coke-snorting thugs from the back alleys of Russia's streets and transformed it, slowly but surely, into a world power again. The mortality rate rose by at least 5 years since he took power and the thieves and vultures have been either run out of the country or banged up.


A chessmaster both on the board and when dealing with multiple external forces trying to checkmate him in order to pillage his country and people. A judo master and an all round cool guy.

Deemed as Normal

ShatterAlan wrote: »

A judo master and an all round cool guy.

So you're saying he wouldn't have them shot if they didn't leave him win?!

cj maxx

Theres a few posters on here that I really admire. Not in AH mind you but on other forums/fora

Esho

Jerry Rawlings- dictator and president of Ghana.

Stamped out corruption and reformed government by siezing power and shooting selected politicians and civil servants.
Relinquished power, warning that he'd be back if the raiding of the national purse started up again.

It did, he took power again and was elected a few times after he reinstated democracy.

Would love to see a ruler in Ireland who stopped so many types using the state - us- as their ATM.
And I'm not thinking about social welfare recipients here.

Happy4all

No longer with us, John Hume.

Key role in changing this little island. Got people around tables together that we never thought we would see in the same room.

Sacrificed own political party gains for the greater good of a peace agreement.

beerguts

Strange one for some but Konrad Adenauer the Chancellor of West Germany after WW2 is someone I greatly admire. He put a line under the de-nazification so that it didn't divide the nation and rebuilt West Germany. I remembered reading about him for leaving cert history and thinking there was a great statesman.

ShatterAlan

Deemed as Normal wrote: »

So you're saying he wouldn't have them shot if they didn't leave him win?!

So you're saying that I'm saying something?

This thread is about people who one admires, not about your thoughts on what they might do in some simple version of your view.

John Hume was mentioned. A beautiful creature of a human being.

Are you going to say he would have your knees blown out?

"Let me win a Judo match or I'll have you shot!"

GROW UP!

cj maxx

cj maxx wrote: »

Theres a few posters on here that I really admire. Not in AH mind you but on other forums/fora

Me too but in AH. It's strange because I haven't met any of them and obviously haven't a clue as to their character. But. Their posting style, their lack of care to follow group think, their ability to peddle their own boat. I like that. Even heading over to DR to stand up for themselves.

In fact outside of here they are the qualities I'd admire. It's a lonely road to take the one less travelled, you can be mocked and rub some up the wrong way. As long as you remain authentic to who you are though then keep doing you and pay no heed to popularity contests.

ShagNastii

I’ve always liked Eddie Izzard but have grown to like him even more lately. Like most, I detest the “be kind” pinky lefty brigade we have now conceded we have to deal with.

Eddie has this message but I feel it’s from a wholly genuine place where he believes whole-heartedly in the goodness of people and humanity. He has such conviction without being preachy. He is very much “this is the way I’m going come with me if you would like”.

He was recently interviewed on one of those GMTV like programmes and they were stumbling about the whole trans thing. They asked him is it she/he/they/it? He just laughed and said “Eddie is grand. It covers everything just don’t take the mick”. Not being sanctimonious for a second.

Deemed as Normal

ShatterAlan wrote: »

So you're saying that I'm saying something?

This thread is about people who one admires, not about your thoughts on what they might do in some simple version of your view.

John Hume was mentioned. A beautiful creature of a human being.

Are you going to say he would have your knees blown out?

"Let me win a Judo match or I'll have you shot!"

GROW UP!

This is after hours! You should be able to take a joke. I've seen a few vids of Putin at the Judo and it seems as though they let him win... because he wins all the time!

I'm obviously not as well versed on him as you, but I know that Putin is a killer, and he's stealing land from the Ukraine. He also shot down a plane of civilians in 2014. Yes, he may be cool, but it's important not to forget these things about him. You wouldn't be so quick to admire him if he'd killed one of your family. As far as I know he wants to keep Russia shut off from the rest of the world and keep it communist; and that's why there's so much poverty there.

Dick phelan

From history William Wilberforce would definitely be one. A key person in the movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire. Fitting that he died almost immediately after the act was passed.

Daniel O'Connell perhaps the greatest orator in Irish history and the key figure in Catholic's emancipation in Ireland.

Norman Borlaug, an argument can be made to say no person is responsible for saving more human lives in history then him. He revolutionized agricultural production and farming methods which led to much higher crop yields in places like Mexico and Pakistan. It's estimated his work may have saves as many as 1 billion people from hunger. Not a name known to many but few people have impacted the world in such a positive way as him.

Risteard81

trixi001 wrote: »

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh

Well said.

Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of the Edhi foundation.

Edhi Foundation runs a vast network of ambulance services, maternity clinics, child developmental clinics, refuges and shelters, animal shelters, child educational services and outreach medical services countrywide, including the remotest areas of Pakistan. It provides an enormous range of services, provided on a free, non-denominational basis. It's volunteer ambulance service is the largest of it's kind in the world, and it's among the largest such organizations in the world. An amazing man, who's done so much for so many in so many ways.

In irsh politics: gerry adams,risked life and limb helping protect his community for years and done more for peace here than people realise


Forgien politics: you cant but admire likes of bernie sanders,the man has given his entire life fighting for justice and the poor,even when it was political suicide in america to do so


Sport: v.begrudginly brian cody,his record speaks for itself

Feisar

My Father, they say you should never meet your hero's but I did and I've no complaints. Due to an illness in the family he was put in the fire and was tested.

Galwayguy35

David Attenborough.

Risteard81

Deleted User wrote: »

In irsh politics: gerry adams,risked life and limb helping protect his community for years and done more for peace here than people realise

Gerry Adams never did anything good. He's an awful snake of a man, and a British agent. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh was a trillion times the man that Adams ever could be. He disgusts me - and I have repudiated him to his smarmy face.

Deemed as Normal

ShatterAlan wrote: »

So you're saying that I'm saying something?

This thread is about people who one admires, not about your thoughts on what they might do in some simple version of your view.

John Hume was mentioned. A beautiful creature of a human being.

Are you going to say he would have your knees blown out?

"Let me win a Judo match or I'll have you shot!"

GROW UP!

He built a mansion on tax payers money, and you admire him? He's just after poisoning that fella now too. Disgusting behavior.