Any experiences with Irish "celebrities" ?

Dream 🤣🤣 meeting some Irish D-Listers haha

Worked in a hotel that regularly had 'famous' Irish acts playing, such as the aforementioned Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, Jack L, Bell X1, Bryan Kennedy, Aslan etc. Sometimes bigger international acts but still washed up, like Fun Lovin' Criminals, Drifters..

As for the rest on the list, is it really beyond belief somebody could bump into an RTE weatherman, and a few lads from TodayFM??

Thinking a bit more about it.

I met Big Tom once. (Does he count?). Lovely guy. I was working with some special needs people and one was a huge fan. HE drove all the way over just to meet this guy.

I met Donncha O'Dulaing once. Seemed like a nice guy.

Except for that, I haven't really met any celebrities.

Met Tommy fleming once, very nice guy and seemed like great craic, his music wouldn't be for me but such a nice guy, gave me a big tip as well.

I know someone who worked in tv, he said Alan Hughes was a bully. I never forgot it, cant stand him, then you see him laughing at everything on Ireland AM every morning, acting like he is such good craic and a nice guy.

Maybe it was juts someone who looks like her. I think it was her though.

Peter O' Toole, met him in Dublin with my mum, I must've been about 7, was really, really nice, I had no idea who he was at the time but he definitely had an aura about him.

Lots of sports celebs, can't remember any that weren't nice, even the Sporting Lisbon team in an airport and they were all cool.

Another that'll probably have a few double takes was Twink, I met her a couple of times over the years and she was always lovely, she had no reason to make time to talk etc but always did

Pierce Brosnan on walkabout in Navan, sound, really cool guy.

Only once briefly, pleasant enough. I would know his brother Aidan more. Whose a nice fella but can be odd.

i went to the end of his set at the last electric picnic because he was on before daniel sloss. from what i saw JBs 'show' consisted of dragging crowd members up on stage, making them do 'hilarious japes' and laughing at them. place was pretty much packed and was then half empty for sloss, shows that just because something is popular doesnt mean its good i suppose

sat behind allison spittle and some other 'comedian' who looked like jacob rees mogg on a bus once before she got kinda famous. from the absolute shite they were both spouting im clueless as to how she has a career. then again if jason byrne can i suppose anyone can.

sat near alan quinlan on a train a few years ago. he seemed to be watching something on his macbook without headphones and when someone asked him to stop or use headphones he told them to **** off to the quiet carriage if they had a problem with it. dont think irish intercity trains had them though

dealt with declan kidney a few times and he was not particularly nice. ill give him a pass though since he was going through a bad time

met most of the munster team over the years, majority of them were very friendly and courteous. paul o connell and donncha o callaghan in particular also had time for fans and would always go out of their way to look after any kids that were looking for autographs/pictures etc.

rob kearney and johnny sexton also incredibly friendly at the start of their careers, hope theyve continued in that vein and from have heard from others that theyre still gents, if a little reserved. BOD however was/is up his own hole and incredibly rude unless there's a photo/ publicity op, in which case hes the friendliest person ever

paul noonan from bell x1 - gentleman

daithi - shy but very sound

mary kennedy - hit a friends car and drove away

Not in person but on the phone…clients of a company I worked for…

Marianne Faithful…. Absolutely lovely person. Zero pretentiousness… downright nice lady.

Gabriel Byrne…. As above… gent.

Louis Walsh…. Nice guy, don’t like what he does or musically represents but over several years extremely decent and fair to deal with. Wouldn’t have thought I’d have said that but a VERY down to earth decent skin…

Elvis Costello…. A strange fish, never rude the opposite but awkward without reason on occasion. Missus the same…

Stephen Gatley…. A little difficult on occasion, not rude but certainly a slight ego, but nothing to write home about…

Sinead O’Connor… gets bad press but nothing but pleasant and friendly to me and colleagues..

U2 contingent>>>

Larry Mullen… gem of a guy, likewise his wife

Paul McGuinness… grand

Edge, likeable and eloquent

Ali Hewson… super friendly…

Brendan Gleeson… nice fella

Colin Farrell… sound

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my local pub..

Keith Duffy… I thought he’d be a **** but unfailingly polite, good natured, down to earth and good spirited… waiting for his drinks at the bar just chatting away to us as any semi regular punter you’d just know… dresses very down, possibly to blend in, 5 day beard, old lumberjack shirt, jeans and airmax…likes a laugh really… and no pretentiousness… funny as he at times seems opposite on TV…

a handful of ex and current Dublin footballers… all very nice people…. Just blend in as regulars, zero special treatment from staff… just ‘locals’ to us the locals as you see em every week…

Aye, dead on.