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Are there any universally loved Irish people

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    John B Keane


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Marian Keyes:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,776 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Oh yes we are all racists and how dare we oppose uncontrolled migration? That Imelda Mae? Talentless Bint.

    Yeah, they're forever inviting talentless people to perform at the Grammys

    https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2010/0202/420852-mayi/

    I'm sure you've probably been invited yourself once or twice Scooter?


  • Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭bureau2009


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Maeve Binchy

    Great suggestion.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 No8Keith2018


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Packie Bonnar. Never heard anything bad about him.

    Larry Gogan.

    Katie Taylor

    Maybe Bill O Herlihy.

    My favourite but not sure what others think Brendan Grace

    He whipped all my uncles best jokes and forgot where he came from. Nough said.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Yeah, they're forever inviting talentless people to perform at the Grammys

    https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2010/0202/420852-mayi/

    I'm sure you've probably been invited yourself once or twice Scooter?

    Touched a nerve there? Got a little crush on her there?
    I myself am not a musician.
    Thinking you can score woke points for calling Irish people racists is a bit much


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Joe told a lie? Say it isn't so!

    Ask his manager


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,597 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Just saw this thread but I can't stand Michael McWhateverthef*ck. Saw him on the Late Late once and he came across as a sanctimonious prick going on about how he never tasted alcohol etc. Has a priestly vibe about him. Also his voice/accent would make my blood curdle.
    I really really loved Dave Allen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Oh yes we are all racists and how dare we oppose uncontrolled migration? That Imelda Mae? Talentless Bint.

    I spoke negatively about Imelda in this thread and I’m not a fan, but now you’ve forced me defend her :) she certainly is not a talentless bint


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    He whipped all my uncles best jokes and forgot where he came from. Nough said.

    Irish people seem to hate when Irish people have a nice life in the sun


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,597 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    I absolutely love Eamon Dunphy and always have. His Podcast is very good, apart from the football ones. I think National Treasure John Giles needs to retire from media, sad as it is to say.
    Billo seemed like a lovely man too, football on Irish TV will never be the same without him, he just made me feel safe and at home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,776 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Touched a nerve there? Got a little crush on her there?
    I myself am not a musician.
    Thinking you can score woke points for calling Irish people racists is a bit much


    This might be a surprise to you, but it is possible to like or respect people without having a crush on them.

    I've no idea what woke points are, tbh. But I don't think they have anything to do with her musical talent. If you don't like her politics or her public position, then so be it. But again, that's got nothing to do with her talent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    I've no idea what woke points are, tbh. But I don't think they have anything to do with her musical talent. If you don't like her politics or her public position, then so be it. But again, that's got nothing to do with her talent.

    Woke points are what lad say that think will get them points. eg
    "We need to eliminate male toxicity"
    "Arent all african American due reparations?"
    "I am vegan"
    "We need to ban all guns"
    "Trump is a Billox and Sanders was robbed"

    Does saying that actually work?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    This might be a surprise to you, but it is possible to like or respect people without having a crush on them.

    I've no idea what woke points are, tbh. But I don't think they have anything to do with her musical talent. If you don't like her politics or her public position, then so be it. But again, that's got nothing to do with her talent.

    What talent? The list of modern Rockabilly artists with talent is not a long one and Imelda aint on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    paul71 wrote: »
    Well done on finding an almost uniquely universally despised individual.

    nonesense


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Bambi wrote: »
    What talent? The list of modern Rockabilly artists with talent is not a long one and Imelda aint on it.

    She’s not rockabilly she’s a pop star


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭pauliebdub


    Are there any Irish people who are loved by everybody, or practically everybody anyway?
    The only 1 I can think of to even come close to it is Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh.
    Any others?

    Certainly not MO'M, I'm not alone in not being able to stand the maudlin auld lad reminiscing about the GAA.

    Paul McGrath
    Colm Meaney
    Brendan Gleason
    Phil Lynnott would be my picks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,863 ✭✭✭buried


    Eddie Lenihan

    If anybody got a problem with him, they are doing it wrong.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭TheadoreT


    Hozier


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    TheadoreT wrote: »
    Hozier

    the king of woke

    insufferable tosspot


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Woke points are what lad say that think will get them points. eg
    "We need to eliminate male toxicity"
    "Arent all african American due reparations?"
    "I am vegan"
    "We need to ban all guns"
    "Trump is a Billox and Sanders was robbed"

    Does saying that actually work?

    Yes it does, as long as you are over 6 foot, look attractive, have a good job and have a reputation for being a stallion in the sack. In fact if you have these traits you can pretty much say whatever you like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,244 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Tommy Shlug.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,562 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Eddie Moroney.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,863 ✭✭✭buried


    J. Marston wrote: »
    Tommy Shlug.

    Mighty

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Phil Lynott would be my choice, love everything about him, could listen to him all day and he seemed so genuine also.
    Dolores o Riordan would definitely be up there, huge talent and again seemed very ordinary and down to earth.
    I have to say I love Roy Keane, lots won't agree but he sticks to his principles and isnt a crowd pleaser and I admire that in a person.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,776 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Bambi wrote: »
    What talent? The list of modern Rockabilly artists with talent is not a long one and Imelda aint on it.
    She moved on from rockabilily quite a few years back. You really should keep up if you're going to position yourself as the expert judge.
    Woke points are what lad say that think will get them points. eg
    "We need to eliminate male toxicity"
    "Arent all african American due reparations?"
    "I am vegan"
    "We need to ban all guns"
    "Trump is a Billox and Sanders was robbed"

    Does saying that actually work?

    I'm still confused on a few details.

    1) 'get them points' - points from who and for what? What are these points?
    2) Did Imelda say any of these things
    3) What has her political position got to do with her musical talent?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    J. Marston wrote: »
    Tommy Shlug.

    Drivin the bin-dy bus

    Are you doing a bit of videoing, you are ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭pimpmyhat


    Conor faughnan AA


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Has to be the man of the triple name Dan Paddy Andy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭Liamo57


    Catherine Fulvio.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,863 ✭✭✭buried


    lol

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭bureau2009


    Catherine Corless, historian, who researched and publicised the Tuam babies burial.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭meath4sam


    Fr Ted


  • Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭Achebe


    People on this site throw around the word "woke" like kids who discovered a swear word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    imme wrote: »
    The foreigners love the Irish, there'll be bags of them moving to the Gaeltacht for the grants before long.

    Surely that's what Direct Provision is?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Eugene Lambert, the man who came up with the idea of Wanderly Wagon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,757 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Achebe wrote: »
    People on this site throw around the word "woke" like kids who discovered a swear word.

    You might enjoy this thread :)

    Woke-ism of the day.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058109483


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Ted Walsh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,871 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Eugene Lambert, the man who came up with the idea of Wanderly Wagon.

    Not me. I went on a school tour to the Lambert Puppet Threatre, he was a contrary prick.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Saint Patrick. Imagine having to live with snakes every day. It's bad enough having to dodge traffic and pedestrians and cyclists and whatever when you're walking about doing your day to day stuff, that's a pain. But add snakes into the mix? I'm staying home.


  • Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Me.

    I double checked with my mammy and she confirmed it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Ted Walsh


    He's a great talker and a bit of a character, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.



    There's very few honest men and women involved in Irish national hunt racing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    John Sheehan

    Right up until he sucks the life out a Dubliners gig by reciting one of his "poems".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    bureau2009 wrote: »
    Catherine Corless, historian, who researched and publicised the Tuam babies burial.

    Not loved by interests who wanted all that to stay buried.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Do we have a winner? Perhaps Omackeral should do a tournament in this topic.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    The Garda who found the bag that Graham Dwyer threw into the Vartry reservoir.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Surely that's what Direct Provision is?

    No.

    Choosing and being sent are different things.

    Although the non obligatory nature of direct provision muddies the waters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,776 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Wee Daniel.

    Sure he went out singing for the old folks during the lockdown and all. And he takes the piss out of himself in the gas boiler ad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,562 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Do we have a winner? Perhaps Omackeral should do a tournament in this topic.

    It was done before and the winner was Samantha Mumba. See post #407.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    It was done before and the winner was Samantha Mumba. See post #407.

    That was a joke btw.

    But invariably the results of those forum games competitions are mindboggling. Expect the unexpected to say the least, I have seen them vote that Chris O'Dowd was a better actor than Gene Hackman..... you had to be there.


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