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Any experiences with Irish "celebrities" ?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭hamburgham




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Get Real


    Served Patrick McDonnell ( most notably Eoin Mclove, and appearing in various roles in Naked Camera and The Savage Eye) several times.

    Gent. Quite shy, down to earth, very polite.

    I know he's not exactly peak "celebrity" even for Ireland but a nice, unassuming fella. I've no doubt some with a similar public profile do have airs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,215 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Something about her alright. Very pushy and false. Totally latched onto his fame (I’m no fan of his singing, but he earned it) and milked it for all it was worth.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,215 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Brian odriscoll getting a lot of mentions here- on tv he comes across so well which just goes to show



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Give it a rest, Pollyanna! 😡 We want to hear about obnoxious Irish celebrities, not nice ones! You haven't met Brian O'Driscoll by any chance, have you??



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,176 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Brian O'Driscoll & wife - very relaxed, normal & down to earth good for the chats. Had a coffee while the kids played with a ball together.

    Liam Cunningham - Walked my dogs with him and his dog for a month every morning before I copped who he was, really nice man, very convivial and good natured.

    Surfed with Kian Egan from west life for two days on a reef break. Nice fella, good craic out back, very physical, strong paddler. Again, didn't realise who he was till my wife pointed him out to me.

    Van Morrison, waiting for a lift from an airport. Very reserved and not really interested in making good company, standoffish & seemed uncomfortable. But it was obvious and it would take an idiot to enforce a conversation and then post online how rude he was.

    Bertie - Natural charisma with a high degree of intelligence that I simply couldn't help liking.

    Paul McGrath - adorable, patient, relaxed with a natural, unusual modest & attractive charisma.

    Brian Fenton - Very convivial & relaxed with an air of a young professional

    Brian Kerr - Super down to earth, lovely man. We're not in to soccer but he chatted about nothing & everything in his classic original Irish accent on the DART with my little family, helped us get the buggy off the train with a classic "mind the gap" quip. Very warm & friendly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,286 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    Fred Cooke, such a try hard, trying and failing to turn everything into a funny joke. Dose.



  • Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bono is probably the most famous. I met him through work once. I had spoken to him a few times on the phone, and scheduled a meeting between him and my boss, but I only knew him by the name Paul Hewson, which is how he referred to himself.

    I never clocked who it was until he showed up for the meeting. He was very nice, and quiet spoken.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Rachel Sarah Murphy who played Jo in Fair City. A complete diva with notions. Runs a cleaning business now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,363 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    How does he come across "well"?

    The perma grin do it for you?

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭jack of all


    I met Ryan Tubridy at an event years ago, before he got the Late Show gig. He was very nice, very personable and spoke to as many of the audience as possible. He knew how to work a room.

    Got chatting to a lady in the waiting area of a hospital, did realise until later that it was Aine Lawlor from RTE. She was very nice.

    A taxi driver friend of mine got a fare to drop Rosanna Davidson and the husband out to the Electric Picnic from the local hotel they were staying at. A right dose they were apparently, didn't appreciate that my friend didn't "get" who they were! They wanted to be sure he'd pick them up later that night, no problem says my friend. The fare out was a fixed flat fare, agreed by the hotel so not generous. They paid in cash to the cent, not even one euro tip. He didn't answer their phonecall later to be collected.

    I met Hector at a business launch/ promotion years ago, very put on act and not a good vibe in between "takes", didn't like him at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Irish Jack Lyons, wouldn't be a household name but he's a legend among Who fans. Lovely man, often chatted with him. He's like the Jimmy Magee Memory Man of pop culture.

    Neil Prendiville, radio dj whose main claim to fame was he got his lad out on an Aer Lingus flight. Glared at me for no good reason when I was handing out flyers for a comedy gig years ago. Someone told me they witnessed him trying to jump the queue somewhere using the "dont you know who i am line". This was long before the plane **** incident.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Timfy


    Dáithí Ó Sé - Really decent bloke who we met at a ribbon cutting ceremony. My mum, who had just moved here from the UK went up to him and said something along the lines of "I know you're famous but I really have no idea who you are!" He found this immensely amusing and spent the next 15 minutes with her, not talking about himself, but about where she was originally from, why she moved over here etc. He, like my mother, prefers Yorkshire tea to Barrys and they had a long conversation as to the best places to pick it up over here!

    Jim Sheridan - Our village was the main location for the film "The Field" and, when we organised a 25 year anniversary weekend, we invited Jim Sheridan, not thinking for a second that he would turn up to our little shindig. Not only did he turn up but he spent every second of his weekend with the villagers. He directed a bunch of locals doing a re-enactment of the fight scene. He was funny, willing to engage and drank everyone else under the table!!!

    No trees were harmed in the posting of this message, however a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,176 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    No pleasant anecdotes from yourself Steven Toast? Just nasty bitching about an ex-rugby players smile that has you posting after 5.30am.

    I guess covid hasn't been good to everyone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Imelda may is an absolute sweetheart, just a well raised person with manners and class.

    Sharon Corr is an absolute diamond as well, the rest of them are all very polite in a managed way, although Jim was fairly chatty, thankfully before his flat earth days

    Dave mcsavage is a cnut, a pure piece of human garbage.

    Just watch how someone talks to waiting staff, it'll tell you more than any interview.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭black & white


    Worked in a fancy hotel 30 years ago and met Michelle Rocca who was lovely and chatted away and I met Geldof briefly but can't remember much about him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Fattybojangles


    Unfortunately someone in RTE does so he is regularly inflicted upon us.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,459 ✭✭✭witchgirl26


    🤣 I'm sorry that I've been lucky enough to only have nice encounters.....maybe the encounter reflects on both people and not just the celebrity?!

    And I have actually met Brian O'Driscoll - yonks ago at a Leinster match & he came across quite nice then.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭AmberGold


    Marty Whelan, couldn't meet a nicer guy. Parents met Johnny Logan in a supermarket Marbella and spoke to him for 5 or 10 mins, lovely man was the report.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    I met Marti 30 years ago in a bank in ballsbridge , still remember that he was friendly that day

    Met a GAA manager recently in a business setting , thought he was a clown is most I can say , mind you most people are clowns or idiots imo anyhow

    I reckon the anecdote about celebs and how they treat waiting staff is exaggerated , some treat them well but aren't nice either



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,417 ✭✭✭✭gmisk




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Shotgunned a lager with cormac battle at a digs in Kilkenny. Also Kevin Moran thrust me a nephew’s toy in a bid to get me off his case



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭thefallingman


    Interesting comments about Alan Hughes, never met him personally but always thought he came across as creepy and odd on tv



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,363 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    To be honest, im glad im not a well known face....if I was, I would be getting plenty of mentions on this thread for being a prìck !

    Id be exhausted going around the town putting on a friendly face and being nice to strangers etc

    I love the anonymity.....i can be a miserable bastard in peace!

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Rubbish; toast of the town there was even a song about you. I’m like Matt Berry, I’m very, on



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,286 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    Id say it hard for his fellow presenters trying to have a laugh with him on tv while knowing hes a prick off air.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Mentioned on here before I witnessed Twink having a rampage in the bank after being told no funds. Wouldn't wish that on anybody but she was horrible.

    Used to serve Dunphy as a teen when I worked in a shop, polite, queued up and always said hello. Ian Dempsey the same.


    Larry Mullen, said hello once and nearly had to fake my own death to get away from him he was talking so much, lovely man.


    Shocker, last time I met Conor McGregor he was a gent and sat with us for a bit - in his own bar mind you but still.


    Loads more MMA fighters, most are nice even Michael Paige.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    On the Larry mullen subject I have patted bono on the head; coming out of the sheepskin shop. And I am not tall by any means



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,341 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Yep Larry Mullen is very genuine type of guy alright.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭Turfcutter


    There seems to be a trend where Panto queens like Twink and Alan Hughes don't win many fans in real life.



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