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Which former Taoiseach would you most like to have a pint with?

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  • #32
    Sephiroth_dude
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    Jack Lynch

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



  • #33
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Jack Lynch

    To ask him why he stood idly by?


  • #34
    RMAOK
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    Sean lemass - just because he hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet. No other reason than that tbh.

    Or else DEV


  • #35
    Itssoeasy
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Bertie isn’t a great fella for getting his round in, as anyone who boozes regularly in Drumcondra would verify. Amiable enough lad though.

    Enda Kenny is mighty crack when he’s on the beer. Likes a good few of them, and is excellent at doing impressions of other politicians. Genuinely sound sort of skin.

    Ah here.

    Really ? You wouldn't think it from his public persona when he was Taoiseach.


  • #36
    freshpopcorn
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Bertie isn’t a great fella for getting his round in, as anyone who boozes regularly in Drumcondra would verify. Amiable enough lad though.

    Enda Kenny is mighty crack when he’s on the beer. Likes a good few of them, and is excellent at doing impressions of other politicians. Genuinely sound sort of skin.

    FG TD on boards?


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  • #37
    branie2
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    Liam Cosgrave


  • #38
    Working class heroes
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    I had a pint with John Bruton a few years ago.
    It was exactly like you’d imagine.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #39
    OldMrBrennan83
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    Bertie, so I could give the little criminal a thump.


  • #40
    Ubbquittious
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    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    I have a few costumers from over that part of the world, and I do be told the same on a regular basis.

    Supposed to be mighty craic behind the public politician persona.

    Why did he bother with the persona so? surely he would have been better liked if he was better craic?


  • #41
    Lefty Bicek
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    RMAOK wrote: »
    Sean lemass - just because he hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet.

    Apart from the OP, that is.

    My choice too. Amazing man.

    Telling that so many of you associate the phrase '...most like to have a pint with... ' with loud, gluttonous, superficial oafishness in the company of bare-faced rogues.

    :D


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  • #42
    RMAOK
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    Lefty Bicek wrote: »
    Apart from the OP, that is.

    :o

    Didn't read the op fully......


  • #43
    jcorr
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    Not with a Taoiseach, but there's a woman there with Leo....I don't know what her name is....I'd be curious to wrangle her brain for a few hours....


  • #44
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    If a man is judged by the company he keeps, then none of the cunts.


  • #45
    _Brian
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    Hands down Bertie.

    Chancer, charlatan, dodger, taoiseach.

    If that doesn’t qualify a lad for a bit of crack over a pint nothing does.


  • #46
    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    branie2 wrote: »
    I know he wasn't Taoiseach, but it would have been fantastic to have a pint with Michael Collins

    Why? Because he was in that film??


  • #47
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Why? Because he was in that film??

    Because he was a great leader


  • #48
    Thoie
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    Are we allowed slip arsenic into the pint?


  • #49
    RobbingBandit
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    Bertie the original RobbingBandit


  • #50
    RhubarbCrumble
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Jack Lynch

    Jack Lynch for me too. Love a nice Cork man.


  • #51
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    RhubarbCrumble wrote: »
    Love a nice Cork man.

    Never heard of such a creature.


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  • #52
    squawker
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    Seán Lemass as the only Taoiseach worth anything in the history of the state imo


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    squawker wrote: »
    Seán Lemass as the only Taoiseach worth anything in the history of the state imo

    In fairness to the historical record, the families who received the 132,000 social houses which de Valera's governments built amid the poverty of 1930s Ireland, or the unknown number of people whose lives were saved by de Valera ensuring Ireland remained neutral, to take two examples of many, might disagree with that currently fashionable view.

    Given his roles in Irish history de Valera would by far be the most interesting. By far. The problem is he wouldn't reveal anything so he'd be useless company. Given that, I'd probably find Fitzgerald to be the most interesting company; a walking repository of economic and cultural history.


  • #54
    inthepocket
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    W.T. Cosgrave.

    I'd like to discuss how he balanced the books over brandy and pipe tobacco.

    Then afterwards maybe we could go to a play or something.

    Think he was an inner city publican before he was a politician! So he'd be pulling the pints.


  • #55
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    Brixton Rapid Magnate wrote: »
    Never heard of such a creature.

    I've known a few hot Cork men in time.


  • #56
    peasant
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    Is this the point where I mention that Charlie bought me a pint once? :D

    Down in Dingle...not just me though but the whole pub, all 10 of us...and I hadn't a clue who he was at the time


  • #57
    Church on Tuesday
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    Lemass for me.


  • #58
    Riddle101
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    Sean Lemass, probably the best Taoiseah we've had. I'm sure he'd be an interesting person to talk to about the War of Independence.


  • #59
    seamusk84
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    BIFFO.

    Yeah he’s a clown, but I’d say he’s some craic on the pints.


  • #60
    Odhinn
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    begsbyOnaTrain wrote: »
    Well which former Taoiseach would you most like to go on a session with?

    In order my top two would be:

    Lemass: a good, honest drinking night. Good talk and no waffling about.

    Bertie: I want to hear about the insides of what was going on in FF during the Boom, the real truth. Messy night's drinking.


    Cosgrave the younger, purely so I could give him clatters.


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  • #61
    L1011
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    Hedgelayer wrote: »
    If it was 2026

    Timmy Dooley, he's a sound dude.

    Very honest and would make a great Taoiseach.

    He won't be Taoiseach. At the very least for the mortifying shame of sending a leader called Timmy abroad


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