Vote for Irelands Greatest Person

WindSock · 22-03-2010 01:48PM

Sergeant wrote: »

No Flann O'Brien, Ernest Walton, Jonathan Swift.

What a shíte of a survey. Surprised the bould Tubridy didn't appear in the thing himself.

Swift hated the native Irish. He can fk right off.

chin_grin · 22-03-2010 01:50PM

Min wrote: »

The hurling compensation nominee for Cork since Kilkenny are better and have and had better players than Christy Ring who would be banned if he played the same way now as then.....

Just ask some from Galway....

I don't give a sh!te about GAA, it was just the name. Hehehehehehe Christy......snort......Ring......titter.

ejmaztec · 22-03-2010 01:56PM

WindSock wrote: »

Swift hated the native Irish. He can fk right off.

Just checked, and he apparently pre-empted your wrath in 1745.

Smart Bug · 22-03-2010 02:00PM

I voted for Collins.

Charlie f**kin Haughey ffs???

Do we hate ourselves so much that we'd include the most corrupt Irish politician ever on a list of the 40 greatest people in Irish history? F**ckin idiots.

"Ah sure fair f*cks to him, sure didn't he get away with it"

F**kin have a bit of self respect and awarness ye idiots, he bilked the people of this country for the entirety of his reign in the most cymical of fashions, he ws a f**kin crook of the highest order, he should be disintered from Irish soil & placed on a boat of sh!te & f**ked out into the Atlantic.

/rant

Theta · 22-03-2010 02:03PM

Terrible list. Most of those have never contributed anything to Irish society.

Oscar Wilde.

deelite · 22-03-2010 02:03PM

I voted Oscar Wilde....he was a gas man.

Saibh · 22-03-2010 02:05PM

We commissioned Ipsos MRBI to conduct a survey of the Irish public asking them this same question

I love to know who they asked

Don't think I will bother voting for any of them.

ejmaztec · 22-03-2010 02:11PM

Saibh wrote: »

I love to know who they asked

We can do a vote on which of those polled is the thickest.

syklops · 22-03-2010 02:15PM

I voted for Collins as well.

smcgiff · 22-03-2010 02:22PM

The list was compiled from a market survey of a thousand people. They could not name active politicians or anyone from RTE, so that explains aunty gaybo’s absence.

It’s a ****e list, but does the average Seamus Public know much about the likes of Boole etc. It appears not.

Jamie Starr · 22-03-2010 02:24PM

It's a toss up between Yeats and Joyce really - they've done so much to promote the intelligence of Irish people, although a few more lists like this and that river's gon' run dry.

Biggins · 22-03-2010 02:25PM

Mr Michael Collins.

Nulty · 22-03-2010 02:27PM

I think you gotta consider who the person you would vote for, would vote for.

Yeats would vote for Pearse IMO.

Therefore Pearse deserves the vote. Am I too blinded by logic?

Joe Dolan would vote for Gately, etc.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 22-03-2010 02:27PM

smcgiff wrote: »

The list was compiled from a market survey of a thousand people. They could not name active politicians or anyone from RTE, so that explains aunty gaybo’s absence.

It’s a ****e list, but does the average Seamus Public know much about the likes of Boole etc. It appears not.

Where did they go for this 1000 people? Donnybrook National School?

who the fug · 22-03-2010 02:29PM

yer man

Seeing as he gets talked about daily

bazmaiden · 22-03-2010 02:30PM

Phil Lynott ftw

Xavi6 · 22-03-2010 02:32PM

Michael O'Leary ftw

cleremy jarkson · 22-03-2010 02:36PM

Dr.Noel Browne
Michael Collins
Sean Lemass
Daniel O'Connell
Charles Stewart Parnell

The top 5 in my opinion, from that list. Daniel O'Connell gets my vote though.

sam34 · 22-03-2010 02:37PM

its been said before, but louis walsh? seriously??

*checks calendar, realises is not April Fools Day, shakes head in despair*

kodute · 22-03-2010 02:38PM

Biggins wrote: »

Mr Michael Collins.

I voted for Liam Neeson, much more convincing in the role...

dvpower · 22-03-2010 02:47PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

(No Gay Byrne either... that did genuinely rasie an eyebrow)

I think RTE personalities were excluded.

Stephen Gately. Is there anyone here that think he was Ireland's Greatest Person? Having him in there devalues the entire competition.

FloatingVoter · 22-03-2010 02:50PM

In the absence of my cat, I voted for Noel Browne (cos he didn't fire my mum many years ago). Oh, and JC McQuaid tried to excommunicate him. Which was hard given Browne wasn't a believer.

chin_grin · 22-03-2010 02:52PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

In the absence of my cat, I voted for Noel Browne (cos he didn't fire my mum many years ago). Oh, and JC McQuaid tried to excommunicate him. Which was hard given Browne wasn't a believer.

I'm confused by this. Is your cat some magic eight ball that you shake and turn upside down for an answer? What has your cat got to do with it? When will they get to the fireworks factory!!!!!

FloatingVoter · 22-03-2010 02:53PM

chin_grin wrote: »

I'm confused by this. Is your cat some magic eight ball that you shake and turn upside down for an answer? What has your cat got to do with it? When will they get to the fireworks factory!!!!!

..my cat is easily a great Irish person. Its an RTE plot.;)