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  • #32
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work? Why does a cranky twat like Van Morrison belong on this list but U2 dont? You may prefer his music but he is renowned as a twat and has not been as influential.

    There is no way you can make a list of greatest Irish people and include musicians but not include U2/Bono.

    P.S. A musician can never be the greatest Irish person ever.
    Bono is the biggest twat to ever come out of Ireland and U2's music is far from influential, it's the same song over and over again


  • #33
    cosmic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭cosmic


    Still no Norris? Tsk tsk.

    Aphex Twin is actually Irish. I vote him. or Norris. Despite the fact that they're not on your poll...


  • #34
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work?

    When U2 pay tax in Ireland they can be on the list


  • #35
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    phasers wrote: »
    Bono is the biggest twat to ever come out of Ireland and U2's music is far from influential, it's the same song over and over again

    In your opinion. they are the biggest band in the world by quite a distance therefore I would say they have been slightly influential. How could they not be? If you dont like them fair enough but there is no way you can claim they havent been influential.

    Bono is a twat. fair enough. He still does a **** load of humanitarian work. Criticize him all you want but there is no way you can say he hasnt achieved way more than Van Morrison or Phil Lynnott.


  • #36
    fifth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭fifth


    No BOD?

    Shocking!


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  • #37
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    A bunch of musicians and the like being nominated over people who were actually important and made a difference.

    You don't even have William Rowan Hamilton or O'Connell up there, for shame.


  • #38
    Co45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Co45


    Degag wrote: »
    Has he?:confused: First i heard of it.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/news-comment/odriscoll-leads-rugby-world-magazines-team-of-the-decade-1859654.html

    ;)


  • #39
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work? Why does a cranky twat like Van Morrison belong on this list but U2 dont? You may prefer his music but he is renowned as a twat and has not been as influential.

    There is no way you can make a list of greatest Irish people and include musicians but not include U2/Bono.

    P.S. A musician can never be the greatest Irish person ever.

    Some things you don't admit to liking on boards;

    1. Fianna fáil
    2. The catholic church (or indeed any religion)
    3. The daily mail
    4. Bankers
    5. Bono


  • #40
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work? Why does a cranky twat like Van Morrison belong on this list but U2 dont? You may prefer his music but he is renowned as a twat and has not been as influential.

    There is no way you can make a list of greatest Irish people and include musicians but not include U2/Bono.

    P.S. A musician can never be the greatest Irish person ever.

    This post is so full of FAIL I don't know where to start.

    Rory Gallagher and Phil Lynott would comfortably p!ss all over ANY mediocre muck u2 ever produced.

    Van Morrison is indeed a [EMAIL="TW@T"]TW@T[/EMAIL] of enourmous proportions but Philo and Rory can not be mentioned in the same breath as u pathetic 2.

    That is all.


  • #41
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Rory Gallagher ftw.

    No John or Edward Grimes? They're doing for Ireland what the Cheeky Girls did for Romania.


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  • #42
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    JaxxYChicK wrote: »
    Rory Gallagher ftw.

    No John or Edward Grimes? They're doing for Ireland what the Cheeky Girls did for Romania.
    Wot? Advocating anorexia?


  • #43
    podgemonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Why in the name of fúck is Roy Keane not on the list!

    Hes the greatest irish player to ever grace the field, hes a family man etc etc... dunphy-esque drunken rant.


  • #44
    Not Kevin Myers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Not Kevin Myers


    George Bernard Shaw.


  • #45
    Co45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Co45


    podgemonster wrote: »
    Why in the name of fúck is Roy Keane not on the list!

    Hes the greatest irish player to ever grace the field, hes a family man etc etc... dunphy-esque drunken rant.

    You really want the man who abadoned his country on the world stage on the Ireland's Greatest Person list?


  • #46
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Biggins wrote: »
    Wot? Advocating anorexia?

    I thought they just had tape worms


  • #47
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    trad wrote: »
    Biran Boru is in twice.

    So is Tom Crean


  • #48
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    What about Barack Obama?? Apparently he's Fúkin Irish too. :rolleyes:


    Irish-Barack-Obama--38866.jpg





    .


  • #49
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Markievicz gets in but Connolly doesn't? Poor form.


  • #50
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    So is Tom Crean

    Crap Crap, how do I edit a poll :mad:


  • #51
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    brianthebard wrote: »
    Markievicz gets in but Connolly doesn't? Poor form.

    Can you change it add who ever you think
    2 people are in twice


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  • #52
    Not Kevin Myers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Not Kevin Myers


    Biggins wrote: »
    Mr Michael Collins.

    Why, if I may ask?


  • #53
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    Cheap Thrills! wrote: »
    This post is so full of FAIL I don't know where to start.

    Rory Gallagher and Phil Lynott would comfortably p!ss all over ANY mediocre muck u2 ever produced.

    Van Morrison is indeed a TW@T of enourmous proportions but Philo and Rory can not be mentioned in the same breath as u pathetic 2.

    That is all.

    Musically I agree with you about Rory Gallagher. I have Rory albums and I dont have any U2 alnums. I dont particularly like them. That said I dont for a second believe that Rory has had anywhere near the same effect on the world/Ireland as U2. They are the biggest band in the world and for that reason alone they should be on the list.

    No Irish musician has ever come close to achieving the success that they have. Fact.


  • #54
    podgemonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Co45 wrote: »
    You really want the man who abadoned his country on the world stage on the Ireland's Greatest Person list?

    Ya i do!


  • #55
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    What about Farthy (forty with a Waterford accent) Coats?

    He was a great Irish person, what with all his pockets & what not.


  • #56
    podgemonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Kevin Myers wrote: »
    Why, if I may ask?

    Did you not see him in taken! he kicked ass!


  • #57
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Winty wrote: »
    Can you change it add who ever you think
    2 people are in twice

    Eh, no I'm not a mod of AH.


  • #58
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Biggins wrote: »
    Nope. 'Orrible stuff!
    Road tar in a glass. Yuck!

    Traitor:eek:


  • #59
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    I vote for Shirley Templebar or whatever he calls himself.


  • #60
    Not Kevin Myers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Not Kevin Myers


    podgemonster wrote: »
    Did you not see him in taken! he kicked ass!

    Yes, indeed, he did "kick a lof of ass".

    So to call Collins an "icon for peace and reconciliation" is not just idiotic, but is to indulge in the depraved rhetoric of Irish republicanism.


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  • #61
    neilthefunkeone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    i vote for none of them..

    What about the lad from Crystal Swing?? Or better yet John-Joe


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