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Are there any universally loved Irish people

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    #242
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    I’m going to say it. Gerry Lambo Ryan.


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    #243
    Truthvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    Why?

    His height and his voice as pointed out. Plus his overweening prissy self regard. And the monumental waste of money pumped into the useless T na G. Oh yeah and that photo of him in sandles in Slane. And of course the relentless po faces political correctness on all issues mixed with the cowardice which means he never ever ever calls anything out until he is 10000% certain that everyone already agrees with whatever he is about to say


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    #244
    Tipsy McSwagger
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    Baldy McDonagh


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    #245
    [Deleted User]
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    pipelaser wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/PrYwCwtX0JM

    Imagine he said that in 2020 people would be fainting in the street.


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    #246
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Wasn’t Jesus Irish. He was 33, a virgin and still living with his mother.


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    #247
    Sardonicat
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    joeguevara wrote: »
    Going to post a letter for the first time in decades so I can buy his stamp.

    Ah yeah! I might order some from on post actually, the first time I've ever done that.


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    #248
    what the hell!
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    Liam Neeson?


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    #249
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    joeguevara wrote: »
    Is there a list of acceptable accents before we look at achievements such as Olympic gold medal and undisputed champion of the world holding all belts, never done by anyone. And even though I hate religion, I never formed an opinion based on someone having a personal faith.

    Isn't the thread about liking people? You don't have to like someone because they have achievements


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    #250
    Galwayguy35
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    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Baldy McDonagh

    Is that the pikey lad with the bad teeth on tiktok?


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    #251
    Truthvader
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    Van Morrison. A man so monumentally unpleasant that few can endure his company for any extended period of time but so massively talanted that he is universally loved despite being himself.


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    #252
    Dyr
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    Dufflecoat Fanny wrote: »
    The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens check it out.

    Hitchens isnt a reliable source for anything, the guy never met a fact he wouldnt bend.


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    #253
    ThewhiteJesus
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    I was going to include George Best but he acted the bollix after he got the liver transplant when it could have been given to someone who really needed it.

    There’s the whole wife beating thing aswell


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    #254
    Galwayguy35
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    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    There’s the whole wife beating thing aswell

    Didn't know about that.


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    #255
    ThewhiteJesus
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    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    Phil Lynnot

    Jack Charlton (honorary)

    Both English


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    #256
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    Once anyone in this country reaches a point of universal acclaim or adoration (or something close), people usually get bored/sick of them... then they get the Bono type scorn just for being the same as they were before!

    You're much better off just rejecting any adulation thrown your way, and just maintain a sort of mild indifference to everything/everyone! :)


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    #257
    Sorolla
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    Albert Reynolds

    A lot of our mammys and daddy’s wouldn’t have met without his ballrooms of romance

    Also put a telephone into nearly every house in Ireland

    Kicked off the peace process

    Brought the Eurovision to Millstreet


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    #258
    Mad_maxx
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    8-10 wrote: »
    Agreed. He's an excellent broadcaster and smart interviewer.

    There's a certain smoothness that the best broadcasters have and you're seeing it less and less these days. Kenny has always just had that comfortable style in the role.

    I don't really get why some dislike him, but he's certainly not bad at what he does.

    That's also why I mentioned Terry Wogan in this thread. He had the same smoothness.

    Was Wogan not universally loved?

    he might be a bad neighbour but one of my sisters works in TV production and has dealt with PK, he was sound enough , tubridy was lovely ( and shes not a fan ) , gerry ryan was a pr1ck


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    #259
    Sorolla
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    he might be a bad neighbour but one of my sisters works in TV production and has dealt with PK, he was sound enough , tubridy was lovely ( and shes not a fan ) , gerry ryan was a pr1ck

    PK is very nice and is sound.

    It is to his credit that he always gave David McSavage a chance unlike his cousin

    I think McSavage taking the p1ss out of PK is a form of flattery

    PK is a good sport

    Be also presented Eurovision


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    #260
    elperello
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    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    Both English

    Jack Charlton was a proud Geordie lad.

    Phil Lynott was Irish even though he was born in England.


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    #261
    Mad_maxx
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    PK is great with serious topics, light entertainment not so much.
    Gaybo could flip between both superbly in his prime, although both PK and GB are obviously not to everyone's taste. Wogan was more light entertainment end of things.

    PK is very good but no one has ever come close to Gay Byrne as a broadcaster , pure natural

    he let himself down badly with Annie Murphy however , perhaps being of the generation who grew up revering the church , influenced his obnoxiousness ?

    no excuse though


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    #262
    Mad_maxx
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    bureau2009 wrote: »
    Haha! Brilliant post! Just for a second I thought you might be serious :)

    i am serious

    marty is impossible to dislike


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    #263
    Sorolla
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    PK is very good but no one has ever come close to Gay Byrne as a broadcaster , pure natural

    he let himself down badly with Annie Murphy however , perhaps being of the generation who grew up revering the church , influenced his obnoxiousness ?

    no excuse though

    Gaybo also let himself down with G. Adams


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    #264
    Mad_maxx
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    I was going to include George Best but he acted the bollix after he got the liver transplant when it could have been given to someone who really needed it.

    i can still forgive him for all that , he was a wizard with a ball and defenders then were all hatchet men


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    #265
    Galwayguy35
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    elperello wrote: »
    Jack Charlton was a proud Geordie lad.

    Phil Lynott was Irish even though he was born in England.

    Phil regarded himself as Irish in the same way as Shane McGowen does, both were born in England though and nothing can change this.

    Same with Peter O Toole.


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    #266
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,312 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    i can still forgive him for all that , he was a wizard with a ball and defenders then were all hatchet men

    For sure he had talent to burn and wasn't bigoted at all unlike most of the prods of his generation.


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    #267
    Mad_maxx
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    Sorolla wrote: »
    PK is very nice and is sound.

    It is to his credit that he always gave David McSavage a chance unlike his cousin

    I think McSavage taking the p1ss out of PK is a form of flattery

    PK is a good sport

    Be also presented Eurovision

    PK talks too much , very bright but has a need to show it off

    hes a poor investor too , so was gaybo and mike murphy


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    #268
    Fuascailteoir
    Registered Users Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Tom Crean


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    #269
    elperello
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Phil regarded himself as Irish in the same way as Shane McGowen does, both were born in England though and nothing can change this.

    Same with Peter O Toole.

    Of course you can't change the location of your birth but it does not define your nationality.

    Our history of emigration has led to many of our great Irish people being born abroad.


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    #270
    Mad_maxx
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    Sorolla wrote: »
    Gaybo also let himself down with G. Adams

    yes , he did

    vincent browne was the only broadcaster to ever handle adams correctly , he focused soley on the fiction that adams was never an IRA member

    GB just got personal


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    #271
    Kerry25x
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    Liam Neeson if we're counting Northern Ireland?

    He's fallen out of the limelight a bit but I think Colin Farrell is mostly well liked?

    Graham Norton has his critics but I think most people like him.


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