Famous people youve met/seen

Winters · 08-08-2002 11:37PM

Oh yea.. met Mick McCarthy... was with him when he stayed at a hotel near me...

Saw. Gary Lineaker (Sp?) when i was at Legoland in UK (legoland is cool)

Stephen · 08-08-2002 11:43PM

Caesar: that weather girl from Sky News is Lisa Burke, from Laois. She's NICE :cool:

Caesar_Bojangle · 08-08-2002 11:56PM

She is fantastic, i would give anthing to meet her awwwwwwwww.

Her and me and natasha kaplinski simultaneously, repeat till fade.

Bard · 09-08-2002 04:08AM

Originally posted by Kharn

Of course, when you *are* a celebrity, this sort of thing becomes mundane...

Agreed.

pat kenny · 09-08-2002 05:04AM

I saw Gerry Ryan(Radio guy not sexy star trek woman) in dublin airport a few weeks ago.
I was gonna start shouting "Gerry,gerry,gerry......"
But alas I didnt have the balls.

Karl Hungus · 09-08-2002 05:25AM

Oh, I met Lars Fredrickson too.

the celtic tiger · 09-08-2002 08:39AM

jaysus.

I met

andy townsend
kevin sheedy
gabriel byrne
mary mc alleese.
gay byrne
saw colin farrell ( walked past me a few months ago )
ken doherty (walked past me a minute after colin farrell)
walked past the dandy warhols at witnness
tom dunne
dave fanning (kissed him on the cheek, he was mildly freaked out)
saw louis walsh on a plane a few weeks ago.
saw brian mcfadden on grafton street
ronan collins
saw that guy from glenroe with the dodgy big moustache
met suzanne from fair city at witnness
louise loughman that used to present 'fish'.
pat o'neill (ex dublin manager)
john mcgahern
saw mick lally in town
mike murphy
pate jennings (legendary goal keeper)

there's more but i can't think of them.

Shiminay · 09-08-2002 09:10AM

Just remembered! Caesar_Bojangle reminded me with his tale of meeting Andy from therapy? I met Martin from the band (Guitar and Chello player) and I met Scott and Jay (the 2 guitar players) from Defenistration the same night (they were support to Therapy?) - they were gonna bring me and my mates into the Ambasador for pints, but security said no. Bastids. Got autographs of the lot too. The Defenistration lads are nutters - complete nutters

Also met and got the autograph from the dummer from Il Nino at Ozzfest.

Jack Charlton was sitting across from me in McSwiggans in Galway last year too. He was in good form as he seemed to have caught a big fish or something

paul_mccourt · 09-08-2002 09:24AM

Met and had a chat with Stephen Rea last year on Oxford street in London. Really really nice guy.

Met Barry McGuigan when I was a kid and watched Neil Jordan park his car outside the Irish Film center.

The Sweeper · 09-08-2002 12:04PM

Ah, to have a job where you have to hob with the nobs eh...

memorable moments:

having a chat with Brian Dowling of Big Brother Fame about where we buy our flared trousers

giving Slash from Guns n Roses a light for his cigarette and coming a little TOO close to setting his hair on fire

chickening out of going drinking with Shay Given and what he described as 'a few of the lads' in Newcastle

throwing a football to Eamon Dunphy at a photoshoot and him completely fluffing trying to solo the ball, to howls of derision from the press photographers

running around the corner of a hedge at 7am on a Saturday morning with a fishing rod in my hand when I was about 14, and promptly smacking into Bono and sending him flying (oops)

...there's a common theme here, and I think it's 'me looking inelegant again' so I'll stop now

Tazz T · 09-08-2002 12:17PM

My weirdest was meeting Orson Welles in a village called Nyborg in Denmark. It was 6am in the morning, I'd just got off a train and was totally lost. I had to ask someone directions and he was the only person around. He died about 3 months later.

In a related story (Orson Welles did spoken narrative on two Manowar tracks and their intro tape) Joey DeMaio from Manowar made me chili backstage in the Milton Keynes Leisure Centre one afternoon.

Met Metallica in an empty nightclub in London many years ago and my friend got into a fight with James Hetfield.

Drank with Eric Clapton in the bar at Brixton Academy during a Megadeth?!? gig.

Lemmy bought me a rum and coke in The Hippodrome one night.

b20uvkft6m5xwg · 09-08-2002 12:30PM

Loadsa sports peeps but prolly the 2 most memorable...

1. Sydney Potier in JFK Airport- brief chat...nice bloke

2. Kevin Costner (Ponce

) when I was an extra in the film "For love of the Game"

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Peeps I've seen...

**Saw Arnold Schwarzenegger coming out of Cartier in NYC a few years ago. Obviously he's not as pumped up as he used to be but he's suprisingly average in height. You'd been forgiven for missing him in a crowd

**Saw Robbie Williams in Heathrow in 1999. He came out of Burger King with "minders"- only a fleeting glance tbh

The Sweeper · 09-08-2002 01:01PM

(forgot: Sylvester Stallone, Alec Baldwin, Arnold Schwarzunprounounceablesnamesanegger, Bob Geldof etc. at the opening of Planet Hollywood on Stephen's Green - crap gig, but it's funny to watch the famous restaurant owners wolfing down burgers like they're going out of fashion to try and show that they really believe it's good food. Bet they all puked in the back of their bullet proof limos on the way home.)

Victor · 09-08-2002 04:09PM

I think this beats ye all, Fr. Jack

... and Bertie (but I ignored him).

Caesar_Bojangle · 09-08-2002 08:57PM

i once stoned louis walsh

Pigman · 10-08-2002 01:42AM

I guess I've met about as much 'famous' people as anyone else here but the only one I want to mention is No Disco presented Uaneen Fitzsimons who I met at a JJ72 gig in Whelans a couple of years ago.

I was kinda debating the whole 'will I say hello/will I not say hello' thing in my head for a while before I finally decided to go over and say hi to her. Dave Fanning and a few other people were with here and he seemed a little ticked off that I said hi to her before him. We all chatted for a few minutes and that was that.

Anyway, Uaneen was killed in a car crash shortly after that and as such I was glad I at least got to say hello and tell her that I appreciated the work she was doing.

Bard · 10-08-2002 02:32PM

oh I forgot, I also met the following when I was a kid

Zig & Zag and Ian Dempsey from "Dempsey's Den"
Professor Know-it-all and Pajo from "Pajo's Junkbox"

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I guess another question could be... what celebrities would be top of your list of people you want to meet/hang out with ...?

azezil · 10-08-2002 02:41PM

Ray Darcy
Brendan O' Carroll
Paul McGrath
Dj Carey

po0k · 10-08-2002 04:54PM

I'v seen Ann Doyle and Niall Quinn.

Sean Óg DePaor (Galway senior Football midfielder) was my science teacher for 3 years in secondary school, sound lad.

I'm pretty sure i've met other people too.

From Boards I've met Dav, Rope, Fio, Angelwhore, kayos, mikill, Cloud, Kix, Bubbles, Sico, Azezil, Searrard, Berutiel, Old Yeller, DooDee, Drake, Bard, Gerry, Neuro_praxis, DBC, nakey, Tac, Lemming, Berutiel's daughter (RAARRR!

), Eddie Rocket, Trojan, Phobos, Elexes, Ivan, The_Bullman, Leeroy_brown, Deco, ajnag, nadir, Robbo, and a blast more......

Von · 10-08-2002 05:31PM

Originally posted by Pigman
I guess I've met about as much 'famous' people as anyone else here but the only one I want to mention is No Disco presented Uaneen Fitzsimons who I met at a JJ72 gig in Whelans a couple of years ago.

Hey, I was there. I was beside dave fanning. We had a chuckle at darragh purcell, after he ponced past apparently ignoring dave's hello. My mate had met Uaneen before and I was trying to get him to introduce me but he couldn't be bothered. So that was that.

Can porcine Sindo hack jason o'callaghan be considered 'famous'? Following a bizarre chain of events on one cold and frosty night, the fecker attacked me off wicklow street. That man belongs behind bars.

Redshift · 10-08-2002 08:08PM

I have met spoken to and shaken hands with:

Mary Robinson (while president)
Eddie Jordan
Gerry Ryan

OLDYELLAR · 10-08-2002 08:55PM

all the folks i met at the boards bash the other night , well see there famous to me:D

Blisterman · 10-08-2002 11:23PM

The biggest ones i've met
Fr ted (while still alive)
P. Diddy (While still puff Daddy)
Ewan McGregor (Before starwars
And Bono

El Marco · 10-08-2002 11:34PM

From what I've seen all the people you've seen has put my experience to shame but I got an autograph of commander Riker from star trek at the irish premier of star trek generations and I seen a few of the other cast also......that is all

oeNeo · 11-08-2002 12:04AM

I shook hands with no other than Ronan Keating at a St. Patricks Day parade thingy....

I feel so privilaged.

Karl Hungus · 11-08-2002 12:11AM

Did you get the hand in question severed, Neo?

po0k · 11-08-2002 12:27AM

No, but his sexual tension has increased 3-fold since, not ebing able to 'relieve' himself and all.....

The Gopher · 11-08-2002 01:06AM

Now that you mention Fr Ted i also saw the guy who played Father Stone(the priest who visited every year and said nothing).My mother actually knew him to see back in the day from friends.Also met Der Furher Mary McAleese.That must be about 14 odd famous people now!

Osama Yo-Jimbo · 11-08-2002 01:58AM

i have met ashid alla habin
you can all touch me now

Stephen · 11-08-2002 02:33AM

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