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Are there any universally loved Irish people

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    #602
    Pawwed Rig
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    Anyone mention Larry Gogan?
    Has to be a contender


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    #603
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Anyone mention Larry Gogan?
    Has to be a contender

    Anyone who did really badly on his Just a Minute Quiz might disagree.


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    #604
    CatFromHue
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    Georgia Salpa


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    #605
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Roy Keane has probably already been mentioned.

    Mr. Tayto? (The Irish one, not the nordie one.)


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    #606
    Keyman123
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Keyman123


    Richard Harris
    Joe Dolan


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    #607
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,289 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Anyone mention Larry Gogan?
    Has to be a contender
    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Anyone who did really badly on his Just a Minute Quiz might disagree.

    Maybe he just didn't suit some people :)

    Seriously though he was a national treasure and should head the poll.


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    #608
    petronius
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭petronius


    Paul McGrath
    Katie Taylor
    Mary Kennedy
    Francis Brennan
    Anyone who scores a goal or try against england!

    Some deceased
    Larry Gogan
    Bill O'heirlihy
    Seamus Heaney


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    #609
    petronius
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭petronius


    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    Way I look at is people who few have a bad word to say about. People who try and do the decent thing (some might have failed at times) - but are genuine and are down to earth - despite thier fame.
    And if they did say a bad word about them it just means they being nasty for the sake of it.

    Sports people:

    Padraig Harrington
    Naill Quinn
    Packie Bonner
    Axl Foley
    Shane Lowry
    Ken Doherty
    John Giles
    Barry McGuigan
    Dennis Taylor
    Sonia O'Sullivan
    Paul McGrath
    O'Donovan brothers (rowing)
    Katie Taylor
    Ted Walsh
    Willie Mullins


    Politicians:

    John Hume
    Patrick Hillary
    Douglas Hyde
    Mary McAleese
    Mary Robinson
    Michael D. Higgins

    Singers:

    Delores O'Riordan
    Christy Moore
    Imelda May
    Barney McKenna
    Luke Kelly
    Rory Gallagher
    Phil Lynott


    Actors:

    Brendan Gleeson
    Richard Harris
    Dermot Morgan
    Fionnuala Flanagan
    Colm Meaney
    Mick Lally

    Business:

    Tony O'Reilly
    Michael Smurfit
    JP McManus

    Broadcasting:

    Bill O'Herlihy
    Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh
    Michael Lyster
    Larry Gogan
    Teresa Mannion
    Gerald Fleming (weatherman)


    Not so sure with your politicians or business people, but one in both camps I would have said was Feargal Quinn

    The politicians all have very flaws and broke promises etc. Robinson quitting early and the Big Bird lack of humour, Micheal D running again when he promised he wouldn't

    Singers and Performers, Daniel O'Donnell and John Sheehan would have to be there


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    #610
    Pawwed Rig
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    elperello wrote: »
    Seriously though he was a national treasure and should head the poll.

    This thread need a poll :)


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    #611
    Hamsterchops
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    This thread need a poll :)

    But only if we can tie down what the OP means by universally. Universally in Ireland, or universally on the world stage? Then we would know who to put in the poll.


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    #612
    Pawwed Rig
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    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    But only if we can tie down what the OP means by universally. Universally in Ireland, or universally on the world stage? Then we would know who to put in the poll.

    Well we are in Ireland on an Irish website and most posters are Irish


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    Hamsterchops
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    Ah, ok then so it's a local poll for local people and not universal, fair enough.

    Pat the Baker gets my vote so.


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    #614
    elperello
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    petronius wrote: »
    Not so sure with your politicians or business people, but one in both camps I would have said was Feargal Quinn

    The politicians all have very flaws and broke promises etc. Robinson quitting early and the Big Bird lack of humour, Micheal D running again when he promised he wouldn't

    Singers and Performers, Daniel O'Donnell and John Sheehan would have to be there

    Feargal Quinn for sure.

    Daniel O'Donnell and John Sheahan both have long careers in show biz without blotting their copybooks in any way.


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    #615
    Mojo Hand
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    Rory Gallagher. Not perfect, but never lost the run of himself, and about the only one no-one has made a negative comment about here.


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    dxhound2005
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    Mojo Hand wrote: »
    Rory Gallagher. Not perfect, but never lost the run of himself, and about the only one no-one has made a negative comment about here.

    There are plenty with no negative comments.


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    AndrewJRenko
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    elperello wrote: »
    Feargal Quinn for sure.
    The lad who set up a separate company to grab 'hello money' from suppliers despite legislation banning it? And then wanted Dept Social Protection to be searching online commentary for 'holiday' and 'new car' to make sure that welfare recipients weren't getting above their station?


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    elperello
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    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    The lad who set up a separate company to grab 'hello money' from suppliers despite legislation banning it? And then wanted Dept Social Protection to be searching online commentary for 'holiday' and 'new car' to make sure that welfare recipients weren't getting above their station?

    How did he get away with breaking the law?

    What had he to do with DSP?

    I'm finding out about a lot of well thought of people with feet of clay in this thread.


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    Ash.J.Williams
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    Mojo Hand wrote: »
    Rory Gallagher. Not perfect, but never lost the run of himself, and about the only one no-one has made a negative comment about here.
    And he’s international


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    #620
    joeguevara
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    There are plenty with no negative comments.

    Very few to be honest.

    Only two three I remember are two Dunlop brothers and Rory Gallagher.


    Doubt very few under 30 (apart from blues fans and motorbike fans) would have heard of them. (I think they are kings).

    Everyone else including Dermot Morgan and Paul McGrath have had numerous negative posts.


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    #621
    blinding
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    elperello wrote: »
    Bono is not a tax exile, he lives in Dublin.

    He probably is a good example of a universally loved Irish person.
    Bono is a hypocritical as-hole.

    A friend of Jeffrey Epstein.


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    Ash.J.Williams
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    Denis Irwin

    i'm not a football fan at all but he strikes me as someone who excelled at the highest level and just got the job down and didn't make a fuss!


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    Ash.J.Williams
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    Kevin Sheilds
    Musician Brian Eno said that "Soon" "set a new standard for pop. It's the vaguest music ever to have been a hit."[98] Robert Smith of the Cure discovered Loveless after a period of almost exclusively listening to disco and/or Irish bands such as The Dubliners as a means of avoiding his contemporaries, and said, "[My Bloody Valentine] was the first band I heard who quite clearly pissed all over us, and their album Loveless is certainly one of my all-time three favourite records. It's the sound of someone [Shields] who is so driven that they're demented. And the fact that they spent so much time and money on it is so excellent."[99] Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins told Spin: "It's rare in guitar-based music that somebody does something new [...] At the time, everybody was like, 'How the **** are they doing this?' And, of course, it's way simpler than anybody would imagine."[34][nb 1] Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan named Loveless one of the albums that changed his life, recalling: "When I was younger, I only listened to riffs and vocals and a more traditional style of composition. So when I heard this My Bloody Valentine record it was so abstract and strange in artistic terms that it ended up taking me on other musical paths."[102]


    In 2014 for the documentary Beautiful Noise, McGee said about the album, "people were talking about it as if it was Beethoven's 7th or 8th symphony. No. It's some cnt that can't finish a record that took three years ... Loveless is ****ing overrated as f*ck."


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    elperello
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    blinding wrote: »
    Bono is a hypocritical as-hole.

    A friend of Jeffrey Epstein.

    Your opinion of the man is your own and you are entitled to it.

    Your contention that he was a friend of JE is simply untrue.


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    Rothko
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Kevin Sheilds

    I wouldn't pay much attention to anything that Alan McGee has to say.


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    #626
    gormdubhgorm
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    petronius wrote: »
    Not so sure with your politicians or business people, but one in both camps I would have said was Feargal Quinn

    The politicians all have very flaws and broke promises etc. Robinson quitting early and the Big Bird lack of humour, Micheal D running again when he promised he wouldn't

    Singers and Performers, Daniel O'Donnell and John Sheehan would have to be there

    Not Daniel he is not a registered gas installer - :D





    --

    'Big Bird lack humour' made me laugh. Robinson is bit intellectual and dry alright. Well meaning though

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    skooterblue2
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Denis Irwin

    i'm not a football fan at all but he strikes me as someone who excelled at the highest level and just got the job down and didn't make a fuss!

    What you dont hear about it is all the behind the scenes stuff he does.... without needing media attention. Getting Jerseys signed for fundraising and such.


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    IAMAMORON
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    What you dont hear about it is all the behind the scenes stuff he does.... without needing media attention. Getting Jerseys signed for fundraising and such.

    No complaints when he was knocking in free kicks from 30 yards ? Or all those penos.


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    dxhound2005
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    joeguevara wrote: »
    Very few to be honest.

    Only two three I remember are two Dunlop brothers and Rory Gallagher.


    Doubt very few under 30 (apart from blues fans and motorbike fans) would have heard of them. (I think they are kings).

    Everyone else including Dermot Morgan and Paul McGrath have had numerous negative posts.

    Just from the names on Page 1 find me a negative comment about Niall Quinn, Denis Irwin, Larry Gogan, Shane Lowry, Brendan Grace or John Creedon.


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    Nigel Fairservice
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    I think Twink definitely thinks she is some kind of national treasure.


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    Nigel Fairservice wrote: »
    I think Twink definitely thinks she is some kind of national treasure.

    If only for her voice mail message.


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