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Famous people that you have met.

  • 17-02-2017 05:58PM
    #1
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭


    The other thread about whether to get an autograph off someone famous in the street got me thinking about the people I've met so who have you met?

    I'll kick off so,

    all the band members of Metallica, Faith No More (twice), Sepultura and a few other metal bands that wouldn't be well known.

    Shane McGowan.

    Writers Richard Ford, Joanne Harris. A few more to come when I remember.


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  • #2
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    buck65 wrote: »
    The other thread about whether to get an autograph off someone famous in the street got me thinking about the people I've met so who have you met?

    I'll kick off so,

    all the band members of Metallica, Faith No More (twice), Sepultura and a few other metal bands that wouldn't be well known.

    Shane McGowan.

    Writers Richard Ford, Joanne Harris. A few more to come when I remember.

    What a brilliantly unique idea for a thread



    http://touch.boards.ie/search?q=Famous+people+met


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Joe Strummer, who happened to be keeping company with Shane MacGowan at the time.. A gentleman of the highest order. God bless you Joe, RIP.


  • #4
    EICVD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭EICVD


    I don't meet famous people, famous people meet me!


  • #5
    jacksie66
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #6
    DellyBelly
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    I've been lucky to meet a few famous people around the place. Kathryn Thomas, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh and Mark Gagney would be the most famous of the ones i've met. All very nice and friendly.


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  • #7
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Gavlor wrote: »
    What a brilliantly unique idea for a thread

    http://touch.boards.ie/search?q=Famous+people+met

    Same could be said about most threads on boards.ie, that's what happens when people have been discussing everything for this many years. Example below.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90592261

    http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?query=ride+on+lawn+mower+service


  • #8
    EverythingGood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭EverythingGood


    I met Bono in mass! Colm Toibin, Charlie Haughey - does he count?


  • #9
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Gavlor wrote: »
    What a brilliantly unique idea for a thread



    http://touch.boards.ie/search?q=Famous+people+met


    What a dick you are!


  • #10
    nhunter100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭nhunter100


    Nigel Kennedy, Johnny Cash, UB 40, Colm Meaney, Woodie Harleson quite a few more but I don't count politicians or people's names I can't spell.


  • #11
    nhunter100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭nhunter100


    EverythingGood wrote:
    Charlie Haughey - does he count?


    Was it at a seance?


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  • #12
    Fox Hound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭Fox Hound


    https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057707408/2#102653636

    This came from my unique Idea :-)


  • #13
    TOEJOE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭TOEJOE


    Met George Martin of Beatles fame,nice man.


  • #14
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Paul McCartney and JK Rowling. Also not counting politicians.


  • #15
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Pecker Dunne.


  • #16
    Icaras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Icaras


    Bruce Springsteen with a friend...he went for a piss...wife talks to friend, friend is Bono!!!!!!!!!
    It defiantly happened.


  • #17
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    The fella, an extra, who used to sit in the back ground of the pub in Glenroe.


  • #18
    aziz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 764 ✭✭✭aziz


    The guitarist from spandau ballet stood on my foot in golden discs,
    Does that count:P


  • #19
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    Stephen Travers, the survivor from the Miami Showband. Still have no idea why he wanted to talk with me.


  • #20
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I've met, and dined, with David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Richard Fortey and Terry Wogan


  • #21
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I once played pitch n putt with Stephen Hawking


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  • #22
    Help!!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    buck65 wrote: »
    The other thread about whether to get an autograph off someone famous in the street got me thinking about the people I've met so who have you met?

    I'll kick off so,

    all the band members of Metallica, Faith No More (twice), Sepultura and a few other metal bands that wouldn't be well known.

    Shane McGowan.

    Writers Richard Ford, Joanne Harris. A few more to come when I remember.

    Pele
    Frank Skinner
    A load of soccer & rugby players


  • #23
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,427 ✭✭✭cml387


    Konnor Stale Pear wrote: »
    I've met, and dined, with David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Richard Fortey and Terry Wogan

    I would only be able to babble "We're not worthy, we're not worthy".


  • #24
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett and Mick McCarthy and others I can't remember offhand at a golf event years ago. Albert Reynolds. Pat Ingoldsby. Ryan Tubridy a few times. He is very decent, promised a Holey Moley mug to my daughter if she wrote to him about 15 years ago, and still have it as a pen holder :). Have a photo of him with another daughter, and spoke with him as an audience member before The Late Show started a few years back.
    Marian Keyes and Nell McCafferty. Met and got my photo with Philomena Lynott, an absolute lady.


  • #25
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    73Cat wrote: »
    Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett and Mick McCarthy and others I can't remember offhand at a golf event years ago.

    Terry Wogan Golf Classic in Ferrybank?


  • #26
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    buck65 wrote: »
    What a dick you are!

    Fairly sensitive there aren't you princess?!


  • #27
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,901 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Met George from Glenroe in the early 1990s at a Shakespeare play in the Abbey theatre in which he was a cast member. The cast mingled among the audience after the play. A young but relatively unknown Andrea Corr was in the cast too.


  • #28
    Stojkovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    Mohammed Ali at the height of his fame in the 70s.

    Shakira.

    Loads of footballers and rock stars.

    Oh and I started on Noel Gallagher in a pub in Camden for spilling my drink, before I knew who he was.


  • #29
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    kfallon wrote: »
    Terry Wogan Golf Classic in Ferrybank?

    Thats the one !


  • #30
    Splishsplash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭Splishsplash


    I have met, Jonathan rhys myers, conor mcgregor, gunnar Nelson, Dan ewing, (I've actually shifted one of them), met the fair city cast and Richie kavanagh 😂 used to text calum best also 😂


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  • #31
    DanMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    Pat Ingoldsby - a real gentleman.


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