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    #962
    [Deleted User]
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    The Irish-born Richard Brinsley Sheridan.


    Damn, that was a good answer :P

    Had to look it up myself - thought it was Dickens :D


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    #963
    magicbastarder
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    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    You might be thinking of Holly Cairns and Christopher O'Sullivan, but....
    https://www.southernstar.ie/news/holly-and-christopher-call-time-on-relationship-4216532
    i'm not. it's a different couple.


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    #964
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,391 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?

    I know a couple down the road called Tom & Theresa Doyle.
    Strange question, sure there must be loads to them.


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    #965
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?

    Catherine Martin and Francis Duffy - Both GP.


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    #966
    magicbastarder
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    that's them.


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    #967
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Well, I don't mind admitting that I didn't know that. :)

    Funny - I remember seeing several articles about those other two back around Election time, but never heard mention of these two at all.


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    #968
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,275 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Well, I don't mind admitting that I didn't know that. :)

    Funny - I remember seeing several articles about those other two back around Election time, but never heard mention of these two at all.

    That's because they were different parties.

    Catherine Martin's brother is a senator too.


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    #969
    Fake Scores
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Fake Scores


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Something I read here, years ago.

    Name the spot on the city centre (in Dublin) where you will still find a union flag (union jack)?


    I wouldn't be surprised if there were several. The embassy is a bit far out but the Collins Barracks museum should meet your criteria.


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    #970
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    dulpit wrote: »
    That's because they were different parties.

    Catherine Martin's brother is a senator too.

    Yeah, but you'd think one of the articles about Cairns/O'Sullivan might have included something like "meanwhile, married couple Catherine Martin and Francis Duffy, both representing the Green Party, also both won Dáil seats....."

    Even now, most of the Google results for "married couple elected to Dáil" are about Cairns & O'Sullivan, despite the fact that they were never actually married. Just one story on the first results page is about the Green couple.

    It's a good question all the same, and one I might throw in as a "sorter outer" in a quiz sometime, if we ever get back to where we're allowed to actually have regular table quizzes again.....


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    #971
    magicbastarder
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    on a similar theme. there have been plenty of male TDs whose sons or daughters became TDs; can you name either of the two female TDs whose had children who also became TDs?
    this is a tough one (well, i say tough because i didn't actually know if any existed and had to go hunting)


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    #972
    magicbastarder
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    this is also interesting to peruse if you like political trivia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_members_of_the_Oireachtas


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    #973
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    on a similar theme. there have been plenty of male TDs whose sons or daughters became TDs; can you name either of the two female TDs whose had children who also became TDs?
    this is a tough one (well, i say tough because i didn't actually know if any existed and had to go hunting)


    I am stumped. I can't even think of one.


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    #974
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    on a similar theme. there have been plenty of male TDs whose sons or daughters became TDs; can you name either of the two female TDs whose had children who also became TDs?
    this is a tough one (well, i say tough because i didn't actually know if any existed and had to go hunting)


    Margaret Mary Pearse
    Honor Crowley

    Easy...


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    #975
    magicbastarder
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    i hadn't considered honor crowley; her father was an MP rather than a TD.
    Pearse was one (her daughter was a TD, and her son was kinda famous).
    mary reynolds was the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Reynolds_(politician)


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    #976
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i hadn't considered honor crowley; her father was an MP rather than a TD.
    Pearse was one (her daughter was a TD, and her son was kinda famous).
    mary reynolds was the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Reynolds_(politician)


    Oh yeah...MP.


    I am not seeing the Mary Reynolds connection..thought you said TD whose mother or daughter was a TD....feck it...I read it wrong so I disregarded sons...my bad.


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    #977
    magicbastarder
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    there may be more, btw, i trawled through this and may have missed someone:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Families_in_the_Oireachtas


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    #978
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    Some ruddy hard questions on here. So, in keeping:

    If 1,1 is the second row of 'Pascal's Triangle' , what is the seventh row :p


    Q & A here
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yma5d-sOxVM


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    #979
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭Pythagorean


    The Rock'n roll singer Chubby Checker derived his name from which other contemparaneous (1950s/ 60s era) singer ??


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    #980
    ArnoldJRimmer
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    Pythagorean wrote: »
    The Rock'n roll singer Chubby Checker derived his name from which other contemparaneous (1950s/ 60s era) singer ??

    Fats Domino


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    #981
    magicbastarder
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    it has to be fats domino.


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    #982
    Pythagorean
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    it has to be fats domino.

    Correct; Chubby came from Fats. Checker from Domino.
    ( Chubby Checker's real name was Ernest Evans !!)


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    #983
    magicbastarder
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    where did the velvet underground get their name from?


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    #984
    ohnonotgmail
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    where did the velvet underground get their name from?

    from the title of a book.


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    #985
    magicbastarder
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    staying on the theme of band names, what is significant/noteworthy about the date of bono's birth?


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    #986
    magicbastarder
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    from the title of a book.
    yeah, a pulp pornographic S&M book.


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    #987
    ohnonotgmail
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    yeah, a pulp pornographic S&M book.

    definitely sexual but i'm not sure about the pornographic . It was a factual book not a novel.


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    #988
    magicbastarder
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    i stand corrected!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_(book)


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    #989
    Joe_ Public
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    staying on the theme of band names, what is significant/noteworthy about the date of bono's birth?

    I know they're named after the US spy plane so guessing it was shot down the same day as bonos birthday?


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    #990
    magicbastarder
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    correct.


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    #991
    wally79
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    correct.

    Apparently that was 9 days before Bono’s birthday


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