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The most popular person in Ireland.

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  • #32
    MyStubbleItches
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    Noel Brown


  • #33
    blindside88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Michael D would have to be up there. I think O'Connell is brilliant and was very down to Earth the few times I met him but some people still have very backward ideas about rugby


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    retalivity wrote: »
    O'driscoll is a pretentious tosser, speaking from experience.

    Is that speaking from the experience of being a tosser yourself?


  • #35
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,842 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Is that speaking from the experience of being a tosser yourself?

    Nope, from having to deal with him a number of times in the service industry a number of years back. Not a nice guy.


  • #36
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    In AH, where even Mother Teresa was despised, I doubt this will end in a unanimous decision.


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  • #37
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Yer man.


  • #38
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    The bus driver who splits a tenner. Legend.


  • #39
    TiGeR KiNgS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭TiGeR KiNgS


    Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »
    Enda.

    Inda


  • #40
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Its clearly The Drickmeister General.

    The love that the nation has for that prince of centres, weaver of wondrous gloriana on the field of dreams, knows no bounds. Man, rugby player, legend, demi-god - god indeed - his popularity is not measurable by normal means, and will never be equalled let alone exceed, for as long as he lives. And beyond.


  • #41
    Motivator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭Motivator


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Its clearly The Drickmeister General.

    The love that the nation has for that prince of centres, weaver of wondrous gloriana on the field of dreams, knows no bounds. Man, rugby player, legend, demi-god - god indeed - his popularity is not measurable by normal means, and will never be equalled let alone exceed, for as long as he lives. And beyond.

    Best I've seen in a long time. Bravo! "Drico" is an insufferable dickhead. Popular my hole.


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  • #42
    Motivator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭Motivator


    Padraig Harrington surely must be number 1 in sporting terms.

    Highly educated, highly successful, always carries himself well & is a seriously nice man.


  • #43
    foggy_lad
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    A toss up between Big Tom and Dickie Rock, Either or both were listened to on a car radio or seen in some ballroom by couples before most of the population was conceived!


  • #44
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Marty Morrisey and Jean Byrne with her s&m themed weather reports.


  • #45
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    The Viper

    /thread


  • #46
    Joe prim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    A toss up between Big Tom and Dickie Rock, Either or both were listened to on a car radio or seen in some ballroom by couples before most of the population was conceived!

    If there was just a toss-up, then probably noone was conceived.:)


  • #47
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Arthur Guinness 1725 - 1803, sure loads of people are still raising a toast to him and for good health/Sláinte.


  • #48
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    It's a toss up between Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy and Conor McGregor.

    Three men who never split public opinion.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    John Hume

    This. Enormously respected. In terms of both popularity and influence he was truly incomparable. The 1973 Sunningdale, 1985 A-I Agreement, the 1998 GFA, fair employment legislation/McBride Principles/Sullivan Principles and of course the Peace Process - it is John Hume who pushed all these despite a sustained campaign against him by Independent Newspapers for years because he talked with Gerry Adams. Nobody else had the popular support among all sections of nationalist opinion. His word and judgement was trusted in Washington and Dublin about republican intentions.

    He has not been well for years now and when his time comes is certain to have the largest funeral in our living memory.


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Probably our only (somewhat) world champion mainstream sports star. That being McGregor.


  • #51
    Fluffy Cat 88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Fluffy Cat 88


    Jack Charlton. Yes I know he's English, but he'd definitely be in the running for the most popular person in Ireland.


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  • #52
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Fruhstuck wrote: »
    Conor McGregor is possibly Ireland's most talented athlete of all time. I would have him on a similar level to Muhammad Ali.

    What has this thread for to do with talent?

    Fcuk me...


  • #53
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Fruhstuck wrote: »
    Conor McGregor is possibly Ireland's most talented athlete of all time. I would have him on a similar level to Muhammad Ali.

    Ah here, that McGregor chap isn't fit to be even mentioned in the same sentence as Ali.

    But seeing as the great man had roots in Ennis he's a good shout for being the winner of this particular contest.


  • #54
    BuilderPlumber
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    Tubridy of course!


  • #55
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    mfceiling wrote: »
    The Viper

    /thread

    Never knew House Martell was Irish.


  • #56
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Motivator wrote: »
    Padraig Harrington surely must be number 1 in sporting terms.

    Ach, Paudge is a great to be sure, but a minor great in the greater sphere of things.

    The ability of His Bodness to warp the fabric of space time, create, innovate, in the smallest fraction of a second, something new and unimagined by mere mortals, yet so perfect, and of such artistry, that one can only gasp in awe, and worship the ground he walks on, mark him out of being from an entirely different plane of existence.
    He will remain the most popular person in Ireland for as long as there is an Ireland.


  • #57
    jose_doyle
    Site Banned Posts: 5 ✭jose_doyle


    retalivity wrote: »
    Nope, from having to deal with him a number of times in the service industry a number of years back. Not a nice guy.

    my sister works in tv production and has worked with countless well known personalities , her description of BOD

    real gent

    this from a woman who hates rugby with a passion

    she has also worked with george hook several times , despises him


  • #58
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    It would be great if people could at least give reason for their nomination, rather that spit out "ENDA" (got no likes by the way).

    I would suggest a man who:

    wrote for The Fast Show, Alan Partridge, Big Train
    creator of Fr. Ted,The IT Crowd, Black Books

    Ireland greatest ever comedy writer I give you:

    Brendan O' Carroll

    SORRY!!!!

    Graham Linehan


  • #59
    jose_doyle
    Site Banned Posts: 5 ✭jose_doyle


    my nominee for most popular person in ireland

    mary kennedy


  • #60
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    This. Enormously respected. In terms of both popularity and influence he was truly incomparable. The 1973 Sunningdale, 1985 A-I Agreement, the 1998 GFA, fair employment legislation/McBride Principles/Sullivan Principles and of course the Peace Process - it is John Hume who pushed all these despite a sustained campaign against him by Independent Newspapers for years because he talked with Gerry Adams. Nobody else had the popular support among all sections of nationalist opinion. His word and judgement was trusted in Washington and Dublin about republican intentions.

    He has not been well for years now and when his time comes is certain to have the largest funeral in our living memory.

    A little too cosy with the Shinners for my liking.

    I always thought his colleague Seamus Mallon had a little more integrity about him, but wasn't really into schmoozing with millionaire rock stars all that much.


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  • #61
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    A little too cosy with the Shinners for my liking.

    I always thought his colleague Seamus Mallon had a little more integrity about him, but wasn't really into schmoozing with millionaire rock stars all that much.

    Well Hume realised without the shinners peace was impossible so integrity is great but politics is about finding solutions to problems.


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