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Are there any universally loved Irish people

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    #272
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    For sure he had talent to burn and wasn't bigoted at all unlike most of the prods of his generation.

    he allegedly made statements supporting loyalists , probably drunk at the time , wont judge him for it , im sure plenty of catholic sportsmen did the same at the time about the IRA


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    #273
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Reverend Ian Paisley


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    #274
    Kerry25x
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    I think Saorise Ronan deserves a mention as well, very talented and seems to represent Ireland very well in any interviews I've seen her in.


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    #275
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Reverend Ian Paisley

    know a seventy plus staunch republican ( FF voter whos father fought on the anti treaty side and carried the wounds ) who met him at the big agricultural show they have in northern ireland each year

    he said big ian was incredibly likeable , spoke to a bunch of farmers from the south who were up for the day

    told myself and a group who were attending his sons 21st so he wasnt afraid to let plenty hear it


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    #276
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,650 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Mairtin Tom sheaninin mac donncha... without a doubt


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    #277
    Hamsterchops
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    PK talks too much , very bright but has a need to show it off.

    Agreed, talks way too much, so much so that he probably talks more than 50% of the time during an interview, with his guests taking a back seat, not great at all ...


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    #278
    Errashareesh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Errashareesh


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I don't get why Americans are obsessed with their irishness ...maybe a lack of sense of belonging and rejection by their community or lack of community and they are searching for it 'far away'

    They idolize ireland in a strange way.
    I don't get why people complain about this. It's surely a positive to embrace your roots.


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    #279
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    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.

    Politics/religion should be kept out of the public eye IMO. You're representing Ireland at an Olympics and therefore should be as neutral as possible in your opinions.

    I remember myself being so happy for her and when she came out with the "god was with me in there" I remember thinking "Yes Katie, God supported you to go in there and mash your fist into your opponents head multiple times"


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    #280
    Josuke
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    joeguevara wrote: »
    Gillen wasn’t the best in Love Hate. He paled into comparison to Vaughan Lawlor. Very few are better than Nidge though.

    True Nidge was a consistently good character


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    #281
    McGinniesta
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    Kerry25x wrote: »
    I think Saorise Ronan deserves a mention as well, very talented and seems to represent Ireland very well in any interviews I've seen her in.

    She's really false.


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    #282
    ExMachina1000
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    Jedward are great


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    #283
    dvdman1
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    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Ha ha very funny :)

    His Eurovision coverage was legendary & universally loved for taking the mickey, his annual Children in need appearancye were also great, his weekly TV interview show "Wogan" back in the 80s (who could forget his David Icke interview), not forgetting his forty year stint on BBC Radio 2.

    Universally adored, even if you think otherwise.

    I liked wogan..he was still a bitof a bollix :) i guess that what made him who he was.


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    #284
    stephenl15
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    Bill O'Herlihy. I would be very surprised if anyone disagreed.


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    #285
    palmcut
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    Charles Stewart Parnell.

    Rory Gallagher.

    Sean Kelly.

    Willie Duggan


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    #286
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    Both English

    Phil Lynott was no more English than Winston Churchill played Junior B for Upper Church. If i was born in an airplane does that make me a cloud. Phil Lynott born to an Irish mother was one of the proudest Irishmen that ever lived. No way is his pride, roots and love of this country going to be revised, to say he was English, a place that provided the most horrific memories, where he was in an horrific nun orphanage. At the age of 4 he pleaded and pleaded to be allowed stay with his Grandmother in Ireland. He wrote the Song Sarah about her and how she saved him. Everywhere he went he promoted his Irishness and we were proud of him. To flippantly say he is English, is either to be controversial for the sake of it or just no idea.

    And by the way at the time, a child born to an Irish Mother when she was unmarried, no matter if outside Ireland automatically granted him Irish citizenship.


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    #287
    Pelvis Parsley
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    Biggins.


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    #288
    10000maniacs
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    McGinniesta wrote: »
    She's really false.

    What does that even mean? How can anybody be "false"? You are either human or you are not. She handles herself ok, does a good job for her employers. And....she is a effortless actress. And always up for a bit of craic.


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    #289
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    10000maniacs wrote: »
    What does that even mean? How can anybody be "false"? You are either human or you are not. She handles herself ok, does a good job for her employers. And....she is a effortless actress. And always up for a bit of craic.

    It means I don't like her.


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    #290
    donspeekinglesh
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    DangerScouse wrote: »
    Dead = Joey Dunlop

    One of the few people from the North to be loved by everyone. And did so much for people less well off than him. Probably one of the biggest funerals the North ever saw.


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    #291
    Kaybaykwah
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    I can't make up me mind between Brendan Behan and Jonathan Swift.

    As a compromising gesture, I wouldn't mind lassoeing them from the clouds, sitting both of them to a few jars, and listen to what would transpire.


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    #292
    completedit
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    .anon. wrote: »
    She's a woman though, so you can be guaranteed there'll be lads on Boards who don't like her.

    That 'you don't get to be racist and Irish' was the most hiberno centric nonsense I've ever heard. It was inferred that racism was for others, assuming the Brits, but we won't stereotype and stigmitze...that's what they do in the UK


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    #293
    bureau2009
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    Maureen Potter.

    Joe Dolan.


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    #294
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Robbie Keane hasn’t been mentioned and he is our most successful international football with a goal tally that probably won’t be beaten. That goal he scored against Germany in the last minute in the WC in 2002 still makes me feel on top of the world.

    He scored 68 international goals. He also had an amazing club career playing for teams like Inter, Liverpool Spurs (twice) and Celtic to name but a few. He married his childhood sweetheart who is such a down to earth and beautiful. He does so much for where he grew up and is a great ambassador.

    Don’t know why but the tribute Dimatar Berbatov gave him when he was inducted into the Irish Sports Star Hall of Fame made me emotional

    https://youtu.be/E3Szbn19OJs

    And who can forget bringing the spurs team to coppers for their Christmas party telling rednapp they were only playing golf.

    Legend.


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    #295
    AndrewJRenko
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    Kerry25x wrote: »
    Graham Norton has his critics but I think most people like him.
    Will he wear his union jack waistcoat when he comes to pick up the award?
    Truthvader wrote: »
    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.
    You seem to be mixing up the music with the man. He made a dick of himself with his recent attempt to become a public health expert.
    Truthvader wrote: »
    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

    How did that '10000% certain that everyone already agrees with whatever he is about to say' work out for his comments on Castro's' death?


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    #296
    Galwayguy35
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    Barry McGuigan seemed sound, I know he became a Brit but sure nobody is perfect.


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    #297
    Thumpette
    Registered Users Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Thumpette


    Shocked to hear the tide has turned on mickeldy! I love him.

    Brendan Gleeson surely!


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    #298
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Thumpette wrote: »
    Shocked to hear the tide has turned on mickeldy! I love him.

    Brendan Gleeson surely!

    What demographic has this new view of Michael D Higgins. He is probably the most loved President in my lifetime and I’m going back to Patrick Hillary.

    He is a believer in social justice but also follows through and includes students and young people from socially deprived areas when other politicians and advocates pay lip service.

    Every speech he makes is a piece of art which includes literary references, educational references and examples to bring it to real life so people can understand it.

    He is a Gaelgoir and is constantly promoting our native language while others deride it.

    He has been part of major steps forward in inclusion in our country and not hid behind red tape. For example when the same s3x marriage was voted through by 1.2 million people, he signed it into law, not on a whim but knowledge even where people with no legal basis or case tried to delay or rescind with no other reason but hate.

    To say he changes his voice is crazy. He’s sounded the same his whole life. He also treats dignitaries and less fortunate as equals and never allows pomp to trump human life.

    And when you saw him shaking hands with the Irish Rugby Team dwarfed beside Devin Toner, you cant not love him.


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    #299
    Edgware
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    donspeekinglesh wrote: »
    One of the few people from the North to be loved by everyone. And did so much for people less well off than him. Probably one of the biggest funerals the North ever saw.
    Very impressive memorials to both Joey and Robert Dunlop in Ballymoney. Well worth visiting if in Antrim.


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    ExMachina1000
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    joeguevara wrote: »
    What demographic has this new view of Michael D Higgins. He is probably the most loved President in my lifetime and I’m going back to Patrick Hillary.

    He is a believer in social justice but also follows through and includes students and young people from socially deprived areas when other politicians and advocates pay lip service.

    Every speech he makes is a piece of art which includes literary references, educational references and examples to bring it to real life so people can understand it.

    He is a Gaelgoir and is constantly promoting our native language while others deride it.

    He has been part of major steps forward in inclusion in our country and not hid behind red tape. For example when the same s3x marriage was voted through by 1.2 million people, he signed it into law, not on a whim but knowledge even where people with no legal basis or case tried to delay or rescind with no other reason but hate.

    To say he changes his voice is crazy. He’s sounded the same his whole life. He also treats dignitaries and less fortunate as equals and never allows pomp to trump human life.

    And when you saw him shaking hands with the Irish Rugby Team dwarfed beside Devin Toner, you cant not love him.

    I don't like him one bit tbh


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    #301
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    ExMachina1000 wrote: »
    I don't like him one bit tbh

    Fair enough. And I saw your reasons. Could just imagine when Mandela was going to free the South Africans from Apartheid and suddenly silence, and hatred for Mandiba with chants of ‘Fcuck that lads, he’s wearing sandals’.


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