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Name someone famous from your county

  • 14-04-2009 08:25PM
    #1
    cjbh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭


    OK, obviously Dublin and Cork will have loads of representatives.
    but i'm curious, does each of the 32 counties have at least one famous person?

    i'll start...i'm from Tipp so i'll go with Pat Shortt (comedian), and, um...one of the girls from the Saturdays (girlband).
    :)

    p.s. GAA players don't count, every county has them...


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Comments

  • #2
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I went ot school with David Geraghty and Trevor Brennan, so that's Kildare covered.


  • #3
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Are you lost? This is still AH right..

    And I'm from Dublin so does that mean I'm excluded from this game? Thats not fair. I'm calling shennanigans on this one


  • #4
    Jemmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    Seamus Heany has a lil cottage down the road from me, dunno if hes there much!
    Wicklow has loads!


  • #5
    Lilyblue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Lilyblue


    Pierce Brosnan is from Meath ;)


  • #6
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    Louis Walsh unfortunately :mad:


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  • #7
    sillyputty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    The Corrs - Up Louth


  • #8
    holly1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭holly1


    Christy Moore/Ron Wood=Kildare.


  • #9
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    sillyputty wrote: »
    The Corrs - Up Louth

    + Stephen Staunton and Eoin McLove!


  • #10
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    is Laois near Cambodia?


  • #11
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    john o shea. That big donkey is from waterford.


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  • #12
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    jackie healy ray from kerry (not that im proud of him but still, he's famous)

    tom crean, the antarctic explorer

    daithi o se, irelands sexiest weatherman!


  • #13
    Ann22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭Ann22


    sillyputty wrote: »
    The Corrs - Up Louth

    ..and Liam Reilly
    Stephen Staunton
    Gary Kelly
    Ian Hart
    Jimmy Magee(born in us but raised in Louth)
    Dermot Ahern
    Larry goodman is a bit famous, he's a mega successful beef person
    Maria Christian (represented Ireland in the Eurovision in 1985, was famous for a wee while)
    An actor with red curly hair and a beard who was in a few Irish films, dunno his name. Think he was in the
    Mars or Snickers ad where they were all dancing in a canteen queue like they did in the dole queue in The Full Monty.
    The red haired one in Fair City, think she was an ex nun in it.
    The wee blonde one in the last Harry Potter film.


  • #14
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I was not born in Ireland.
    Leave me out would ye?


  • #15
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    forgot paschal sheehy and joe stack, the rte reporters/newspapers


  • #16
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    jimmy bennett star of meath made movie fatal deviation lives about 5 miles from me, its on youtube


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    buckfast is now a called a bottle of tommy bo


  • #18
    Kelter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭Kelter


    Des Lynam... Up the banner!

    Also Brian Boru... I think having a hundred pubs called after you counts as fame


  • #19
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    Michael Davitt.

    Enda Kenny.

    Granuaille.


  • #20
    Ann22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭Ann22


    Ann22 wrote: »
    ..and Liam Reilly
    Stephen Staunton
    Gary Kelly
    Ian Hart
    Jimmy Magee(born in us but raised in Louth)
    Dermot Ahern
    Larry goodman is a bit famous, he's a mega successful beef person
    Maria Christian (represented Ireland in the Eurovision in 1985, was famous for a wee while)
    An actor with red curly hair and a beard who was in a few Irish films, dunno his name. Think he was in the
    Mars or Snickers ad where they were all dancing in a canteen queue like they did in the dole queue in The Full Monty.
    The red haired one in Fair City, think she was an ex nun in it.
    The wee blonde one in the last Harry Potter film.
    Leopold Mcclintock-famous Artic explorer, born in Jocelyn st Dundalk
    St Brigid
    John Moore-director of Omen remake and Behind Enemy Lines


  • #21
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Richard Harris - Yes I know he's dead, but he was the best thing out of Limerick:cool:

    Terry Wogan

    Jimmy Carr


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  • #22
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Our Minister for Bad Moustaches - Groucho O' Dea


  • #23
    mardybumbum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭mardybumbum


    Charles Haughey and Padraig Flynn, the two bestest politicians ever. :pac:


  • #24
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    Jimmy Carr

    Well if we're counting people whos parents are from a particuliar county, then Liam and Noel Gallagher.


  • #25
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Lilyblue wrote: »
    Pierce Brosnan is from Meath ;)


    + Tommy Tiernan
    Dylan Moran
    Hector Ó hEocahgáin
    Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) & Ronan Keating both lived in Dunshaughlin for a period while growing up...does that count?!


  • #26
    CoDy1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭CoDy1


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    Richard Harris - Yes I know he's dead, but he was the best thing out of Limerick:cool:

    Terry Wogan

    Jimmy Carr

    Steve Finnan -Soccer Player -Liverpool & Ireland

    Delores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)

    One or two famous rugby players aswell;)


  • #27
    kieranmcg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭kieranmcg1


    Im from donegal we have

    Tommy Tiernan
    Shay Given
    Rory Gallagher


  • #28
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Daisy Duke.

    I'm from Hazzard County myself.


  • #29
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Grainne and Sile Seoige :pac:
    Michael D. Higgins
    WB Yeats
    The Galway Girl from that ****e song

    Help me out please


  • #30
    JackieRyan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭JackieRyan


    Kevin Myers
    Vincent Browne
    Paul O Connell
    Johathan Hayes
    George Lee
    Keith Earls
    Darren Shan
    Frank Mc Court
    Peter Clohessey
    Keith Wood
    Count John McCormac
    The Cranberries
    John Kenny
    Pat Short
    just a few more from Limerick


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  • #31
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    chuck David Norris. :)


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