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Your Top 5 Irish people (dead or alive)

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  • #32
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    Bob Geldof [I still get a shiver down my spine when the 'What reason do you need to die?' line from Live aid is replayed]
    Joe McCarthy [Who fought the good fight to stop a dodgy eVoting system being foisted on us]
    Ross O'Carroll Kelly [for highlighting the potential health risks of rugby]


  • #33
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Originally posted by hate_sycophants
    St Patrick wasn't Irish

    Not at first, no. But he became Irish once he ran off from his job (lazy git) and started muttering wierd stuff about shamrocks and put on that really green robe thing.


  • #34
    hate_sycophants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭hate_sycophants


    Originally posted by Sarky
    Not at first, no. But he became Irish once he ran off from his job (lazy git) and started muttering wierd stuff about shamrocks and put on that really green robe thing.


    Yes, that's what being Irish is all about. Do you work for MasterCard?


  • #35
    robbie1876
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭robbie1876


    St Patrick wasn't Irish
    I heard his child was born in The Coombe, therefore granting him immediate citizenship.


  • #36
    ClareBear
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    Originally posted by robbie1876
    I heard his child was born in The Coombe, therefore granting him immediate citizenship.


    LMFAO!!!!!! :D


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  • #37
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    1. Seán
    2. Jim
    3. John
    4. Séamus
    5. Eoin :eek:


  • #38
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Originally posted by hate_sycophants
    1) Clinto Morrison
    2) Tony Cascarino
    3) Andy Townsend
    4) Mick McCarthy
    5) Jason McAteer


    Fine Irishmen.


    :D

    you forgot Jack charlton... !


  • #39
    Fuhrio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭Fuhrio


    brian
    nicky
    shane
    mark
    kian



    lol, just kidding

    ronan
    shane
    mikey
    keith
    stephen

    had you again didnt i

    not in order...

    colin farrell
    robbie keane
    phil lynott
    brian o driscoll
    leprechaun on lucky charms box


  • #40
    ferdi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    my top irish people are my mates, famous people cut no ice with me.


  • #41
    leonotron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭leonotron


    By your no. 5 for music you mean that band you plug New Colour Soul. Dreadful music by any ones tastes. They will get nowhere
    Originally posted by robbie1876
    Music:

    1. Bob Geldof
    2. Phil Lynott
    3. Sinead O'Connor
    4. John Field
    5. Me (will be famous soon - see sig ;) )

    Literature:

    1. Oscar Wilde
    2. James Joyce
    3. Sean O'Casey
    4. Christy Browne
    5. Bram Stoker

    Sport:

    1. George Best
    2. Stephen Roche
    3. Brian O'Driscoll
    4. Roy Keane
    5. Sonia O'Sullivan

    Misc:

    1. Arthur Guinness
    2. George Berkely
    3. James Larkin
    4. Dustin the Turkey
    5. Pat Kenny


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  • #42
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,145 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Originally posted by Kold
    How do people not realise that u2 are possibly the worst band ever?

    Because just like this thread - worst, best, etc are all just opinions based on experience, tastes, knowledge etc.


  • #43
    Kunst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Kunst


    Because just like this thread - worst, best, etc are all just opinions based on experience, tastes, knowledge etc.

    exactly. thats the whole point of it.

    oh and i especially like these two.....
    How do people not realise that u2 are possibly the worst band ever?

    and.....
    my top irish people are my mates, famous people cut no ice with me.

    keep em coming!!!


  • #44
    monument
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    Originally posted by art
    exactly. thats the whole point of it

    Yeah, but it sometimes looks as if people need such pointed out. ;)


  • #45
    Kunst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Kunst


    true but still gonna end the off topic bitching for a while....might start it again later.

    art :rolleyes:


  • #46
    embee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭embee


    Dermot Morgan

    Oscar Wilde

    Bob Geldof

    Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy

    Bosco


  • #47
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,145 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Originally posted by embee
    Bosco

    ... wins.


  • #48
    Kunst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Kunst


    4) Whoever originally wrote the Táin

    wanna change that to james joyce.

    cheers art


  • #49
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Gráinne Mhaol (Grace O'Malley)
    Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill
    Seán Ó Riada
    Samuel Beckett
    James Joyce

    ... well I think they were all really cool people. However, the idea of the "best" 5 Irish people who ever existed is meaningless.


  • #50
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    1.Me.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.

    i have pretty high standards.


  • #51
    cujimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭cujimmy


    Not in any particular order

    Dr. Noel Brown
    Showed he actually cared about people and his principles

    Jim Larkin
    Promoted workers (& human)rights

    Justice Peter Kelly
    a modren day noel brown

    Flann O'Brien

    Oscar wilde


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  • #52
    hedgetrimmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭hedgetrimmer


    1. Oscar Wilde
    2. Seamus Heaney
    3. Thomas Kinsella
    4. Anna Jameson(1794-1860) Irish author, art critic. She was a Victorian, feminist, and woman of letters
    5. Jonathon Swift


  • #53
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Oscar Wilde
    Michael Collins
    Phil Lynott
    Jim Sheridan
    WB Yeats

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