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Famous people you are related to?

  • 10-08-2010 08:33PM
    #1
    Mr.Mister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭


    Well?

    Maurice o'Donoghue is a second cousin of mine,my mams first cousin.

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  • #2
    Maja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭Maja


    Wow, I am impressed. :D


  • #3
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,233 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Mad Dog Coll


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,581 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Graham Lee- Jockey
    Greg Cunningham- Man City
    Dean Mernagh- Flat Jockey(lower end- now retired)

    All my second cousins, but all 1st cousins between themselves, i wouldnt really know any of them though tbh.


  • #5
    m83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭m83


    Eddie Irvine is my first cousin.


  • #6
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    How is this related to Galway? Also do criminals count!?


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  • #7
    Mr.Mister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭Mr.Mister


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    How is this related to Galway? Also do criminals count!?

    Cos we are Galway living?


  • #8
    gaillimhabu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭gaillimhabu


    Eric Elwood. Fair distance out though


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,581 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    How is this related to Galway? Also do criminals count!?

    OOOHHHH i see what you did there....


  • #10
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Steven Higgins is my cousin


  • #11
    Tzetze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Tzetze


    All of them. Gotta go wayyyy back to trace the connection though. cba, tbh!


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  • #12
    martyboy48
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭martyboy48


    gilberto_eire wrote: »
    Graham Lee- Jockey
    Greg Cunningham- Man City
    Dean Mernagh- Flat Jockey(lower end- now retired)

    All my second cousins, but all 1st cousins between themselves, i wouldnt really know any of them though tbh.

    I work with Jason, sound skin:D


  • #13
    Clemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭Clemon


    Dog the Bounty Hunter is my dads 1st cousin


  • #14
    siltirocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭siltirocker


    Does yourself count??? ;) Ah no. :P

    An auditor with the ESCB (who has ****ed over the Spanish), A Mercury prize nominee, an World Championship/(would have been if not for injury over there Olympic) rower, Chief Ambassador to the Special Olympics when they were here in '03, a British comedian with a posh accent, and a disgraced proprietor.

    Only one from Galway though.


  • #15
    Flojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭Flojo


    Martin Keown (Mams side)
    Christy Dignam (Dads side)


  • #16
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    John Ford (director), by marriage though.

    ford1.jpg


  • #17
    dapto1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭dapto1


    siltirocker wrote: »
    Does yourself count??? ;) Ah no. :P

    An auditor with the ESCB (who has ****ed over the Spanish), A Mercury prize nominee, an World Championship/(would have been if not for injury over there Olympic) rower, Chief Ambassador to the Special Olympics when they were here in '03, a British comedian with a posh accent, and a disgraced proprietor.

    Only one from Galway though.

    Stretching the word "famous" there a bit with some of them...


  • #18
    Stench Blossoms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    My uncle owns Caulfield's. Only people in Galway would know what that is! Kinda makes me 1/3 famous maybe?


  • #19
    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭PopeBuckfastXVI


    I'm famous on teh interwebz.


  • #20
    siltirocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭siltirocker


    dapto1 wrote: »
    Stretching the word "famous" there a bit with some of them...

    I don't :confused:. And I feel pretty confident you'd know all their names and some might have negative feelings on one or two - hence the no names bit. One or two may not be celebrities but most Tom, Dick and Harrys would know their names.


  • #21
    cranky bollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭cranky bollix


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    Steven Higgins is my cousin

    oh you poor bastard


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  • #22
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    oconaire.jpg

    Padraic O'Conaire, first cousin of my great grandfathers, apparantely he used to come to the house we live in now but they always hated to see him coming as he'd fall asleep and spill the ashes from his pipe onto their carpet.
    Also, they used to look down their noses at him as he was seen as a bit of a knacker, selling twine at the side of the road and that sort of thing.
    He had the last laugh, he got a feckin statue of himself built


  • #23
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Remember when his head was "Slashed" off his statue?


  • #24
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    Remember when his head was "Slashed" off his statue?

    :D


  • #25
    hairyfairy00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭hairyfairy00


    wolverine14.jpg&sa=X&ei=SP5iTPauAdTNjAf2tZCHCQ&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEiu9IEHO15HY4uKVDZH40NoYK9sw

    My godfather Cathal Dodd (fathers 1st cousin) did the voice of Wolverine also his brother Rory Dodd sang with Meatloaf and he's the guy that sings "Turn around, bright eyes" lyrics on Bonnie Tyler's version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart."


  • #26
    elcy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭elcy86


    Nobody famous ... I know someone who is related to Charlie Chaplin though. That would be quite cool!!


  • #27
    siltirocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭siltirocker


    hairyfairy00 wrote: »
    wolverine14.jpg&sa=X&ei=SP5iTPauAdTNjAf2tZCHCQ&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEiu9IEHO15HY4uKVDZH40NoYK9sw

    My godfather Cathal Dodd (fathers 1st cousin) did the voice of Wolverine also his brother Rory Dodd sang with Meatloaf and he's the guy that sings "Turn around, bright eyes" lyrics on Bonnie Tyler's version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

    "LET'S GO BUB!!!!!!!!!!!" awesome dude! I am happy i know that! Fcukin' class!


  • #28
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Niall Tobin is my Granddads cousin.

    Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy is my Great Great Grand-Uncle (San Francisco City Engineer, built the Hetch-Hetchy dam)


  • #29
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy is my Great Great Grand-Uncle (San Francisco City Engineer, built the Hetch-Hetchy dam)

    Don't break my dam. My hetch hetchy dam. I just don't think it'd understand.


  • #30
    sealgaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭sealgaire


    Fr Cavanagh - Parish priest of Knock at the time of the apparition


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  • #31
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    sealgaire wrote: »
    Fr Cavanagh - Parish priest of Knock at the time of the apparition

    Was he your dad?:confused:


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