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  • 02-04-2017 10:16PM
    #1
    somesoldiers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,846 ✭✭✭✭


    Pat McGrath, RTEs western correspondent, getting a lot of work recently since the coastguard tragedy.

    I remember him in primary school. He used to go around the handball alley at break time, pretending he had a microphone, interviewing players and commentating on the game... and here he is 30 odd years later, real microphone in hand on my tele box

    Did you go to school with anyone famous and did they show early signs of stardom?


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  • #2
    Teddington Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Teddington Cuddlesworth


    somesoldiers wrote: »

    Did you go to school with anyone famous?

    You


  • #3
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,503 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    somesoldiers wrote: »
    Did you go to school with anyone famous and did they show early signs of their stardom?

    No. Did you?


  • #4
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Donald Fisher from Home and Away.

    Lol, we used to call him "flat head" as a nickname :D


  • #5
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,452 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Myself. I'm verrrrrrry famous.


  • #6
    Crea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Crea


    Dolores o'Riordan from The Cranberries.
    She was really nice.


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  • #7
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Jam sandwiches in my lunchbox, ah the 80's,a simpler time.


  • #8
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Enda, he was a tool back then and still is now. Do I win?


  • #9
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    My metalwork teacher made national front page news and did a few years in the big house for touching up a student

    Does that count?


  • #10
    snowflaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    eh... no.


  • #11
    PREG1967
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 242 ✭✭PREG1967


    the Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion


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  • #12
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,217 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Keith Barry lived around the corner from me at home. We used to get the school bus together. His sister was in my class in school.


  • #13
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Richard Boyd Barrett was in the same year as me for the first few years of primary school, but in the other class. My class were a bunch of under-achievers by comparison. Thankfully.


  • #14
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    PREG1967 wrote: »
    the Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion

    A sound bunch of lads.:confused:

    Lots of the Captains of Industry here in Ireland because "Killiney". Most of them just followed Daddy into whatever line Daddy was in. See some of them on VB or businessey shows. A couple went into politics.


  • #15
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Does college count?


  • #16
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Laura Whitmore in junior and senior infants.


  • #17
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Pat McGrath, RTE News, Boards.ie.


  • #18
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,287 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Zaph wrote: »
    Richard Boyd Barrett was in the same year as me for the first few years of primary school, but in the other class. My class were a bunch of under-achievers by comparison. Thankfully.

    Is Richard a high achiever?


  • #19
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    Yer one kelly from Tallafornia, does that count as famous? She was actually nice, little bit weird. Used to lick people.


  • #20
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    60% of Westlife and about 15% of Castlerea prisons inmates.


  • #21
    PREG1967
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 242 ✭✭PREG1967


    they were the school bullies :( but i was tall so they left me alone
    Beyondgone wrote: »
    A sound bunch of lads.:confused:

    Lots of the Captains of Industry here in Ireland because "Killiney". Most of them just followed Daddy into whatever line Daddy was in. See some of them on VB or businessey shows. A couple went into politics.


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  • #22
    franglan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭franglan


    Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, better known by his stage name Martin Sheen was in my year in Uni ~for a year... Lab partner for a day, quiet guy wanted to learn was having a lovely time at it! English and Earth and Ocean Science - "sure he'll never get a job with that!"


  • #23
    jimmytwotimes 2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,804 ✭✭✭jimmytwotimes 2013


    a lot of arseholes


  • #24
    Cutie 3.14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Cutie 3.14


    Went to school with a contestant who won the Voice of Ireland...not famous now of course but had a bit of fame at the time


  • #25
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Ted111 wrote: »
    Pat McGrath, RTE News, Boards.ie.

    We've done him.


  • #26
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: »
    a lot of arseholes

    We must have went to the same school so. Hi Jimmy!!!


  • #27
    jimmytwotimes 2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,804 ✭✭✭jimmytwotimes 2013


    me_right_one wrote: »
    We must have went to the same school so. Hi Jimmy!!!

    Its been a while me_right_one



    arsehole.......... :)


  • #28
    Sultan of Bling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    Joe O'Reilly (wife killer) and author Roddy Doyle was my geography teacher.


  • #29
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,287 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Joe O'Reilly (wife killer) and author Roddy Doyle was my geography teacher.

    Did what Joe did surprise you?


  • #30
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,687 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    I went to college with JackSepticEye (youtube gamer with over 15 million subscribers). Minted and very famous and nothing to do with our college course.


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  • #31
    snowflaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    Our teacher was accused of burning the school down


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