Before they were famous

FHFM500

Did you grow up with or know anyone before they became big, either in Ireland or abroad?

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

No.

Duckworth_Luas

My dad's a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory.

Mr. CooL ICE

Went to school with someone who is a minor figure in politics who made headlines for doing something stupid a few years back

Ubbquittious

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

Went to school with someone who is a minor figure in politics who made headlines for doing something stupid a few years back

Tom Barry?

Fighting Tao

Went to school with someone who was slim as could be. They moved to the US and now weigh in at about 30 stone. They became BIG.

Gulliver was a year behind me in school. His adventures in becoming big and very, very small are now the stuff of legend.

Bobblehats

Knew this fella before he blew up on the scene



Chris O’Dowd?

silliussoddius

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

My dad's a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory.

Can I borrow a feeling?

the beer revolu

I knew The Cranberries when they were starting out - nice bunch.

I knew Cillian Murphy before he took to acting - he was a serious guitar player!
Then I happened to be working on the first movie appearance he made - a very tiny part with one word of dialogue. Lovely fella.

Mrcaramelchoc

I knew ann doyle before she was famous. Every Saturday night in our local pub. Stilettos and a tight tight mini skirt cursing like a sailor.
Look at her now. Who knew

Conall Cernach

I was at school with Ben Kane. He's not exactly a household name but he is a reasonably successful author of historical fiction.

silliussoddius

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I was at school with Ben Kane. He's not exactly a household name but he is a reasonably successful author of historical fiction.

I liked his Forgotten Legion series. Must check out some of his other stuff.

iamstop

I went to school with a lad who was a star player on the Dublin GAA football team.

branie2

Not really

Gregor Samsa

I was in South Africa on business many years ago, and met this kid at the table beside me in a McDonalds. He'd got a Happy Meal, but the toy in it - I think it was a Snoopy water pistol of some sort - was broken, and he was very upset. I had just been to a trade show, and had got a load of the free branded junk they give out, so I dipped into my bag and pulled out a little car that ran on batteries and could drive around by itself that I'd got from an investment bank called Spacey, and I gave it to him.

"Spacey!" he said. "What a cool name! Do they make rockets?".

"No" I said. "They make money".

His eyes lit up. "I'm going to do that when I grow up!" he said, turning on the car and watching it drive around the scattered French Fries on the table.

"What, make a rocket? Or money? Or a car?" I laughed.

"All of them!" he said.

Next thing his mother called him. "Elon, don't talk to strangers"

So I left.