Any experiences with Irish "celebrities" ?

You do realise that while sitting on your couch you have sat in Ronan O'Gara's dried in loads?

He is , He stopped his car and let me out onto castle wood avenue , big smiley wave 😂

I was waiting for this ! According to a previous thread packie blanks everyone 😂

Another person I met was Duncan Stewart. Was doing a cash job, ran a load of calves to Spain and was coming back with a load of onions, was maybe 2004/5

I bumped into him and he didn’t seem at all impressed to see someone from Ireland saying “ah jaysus, I know you”, in fact he was in a wojus hurry to get away from where I saw him.

Yes. Spanish onions from Spain..

Haven't really met a great deal of "famous" Irish people.

Served Tommy Tiernan and Hector, independently and not together, in a shop a few times. Hector usually had a baseball cap down over his face and didn't want to be hassled or recognised, which is fair enough, can't say whether he was pleasant or unpleasant - he made no impression really, which I'm sure was the effect he was after.

Tommy was completely ordinary. It was a bit surreal, every once in a while, to hear a "excuse me" and turn around and be face to face with Tommy Tiernan, as he asked with complete sincerity where the apples/milk/nappies or wherever were. It was a bit of a struggle to keep it together and stop myself from blurting out "Jesus, you're Tommy Tiernan!" I remember dying of a hangover one day and I heard the soft attempt to get my attention from a customer right behind me and I turned round - no doubt looking completely wild-eyed and smelling vaguely of drink - and there he was asking very quietly where such and such a product was. I didn't want to let on how utterly smashed and simultaneously low key star-struck I felt at suddenly such close quarters, so I overcorrected by being extremely stiff and matter of fact. He thanked me without much fuss, but there was a glint in his eye that he knew the craic.

David O' Doherty has been a gentleman any of the rare times I've met him.

Served Brendan Grace in the shop once. He was nice, but he was absolutely plastered.

Brenda Fricker was/is a totally ordinary person, who just happens to have won an Oscar at one stage. Zero airs or graces.

Saw Gabriel Bryne getting out of a bumper car once at a fairground, he looked to be with his kids and looked happy. That's it: my Gabriel Bryne story.

Alan Hughes. Everyone seems to have bumped into him at one stage. I've never met him, but I did see him eating outside a restaurant as part of a gang on Quay Street in Galway once. Oh, there's your man, I thought. I couldn't peer deeply into his soul or anything in that split second, but he did look like the type of customer, at first glance, who could end up being a pain in the arse.

Met Niall Quinn as a kid. He signed autographs for a line of about 50 kids and didn't seem to be too pissed off about it.

Briefly met John Giles at some event. He seemed like a nice man, but I felt a bit sorry for him. He was absolutely tiny and was just nursing a Bacardi and coke and obviously just turning up at the event to do his piece and then get out again as quickly as possible, you could tell he wasn't mad interested. It's a strange existence. Turning up at these roadshow type things, waiting for your turn to speak, eyeballing the exit the whole time, drunk people wanting a piece of you the whole time.

Straight and moody.

Not uncommon either.