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Public Figures.

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  • #62
    haveringchick
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    Sr Stan


  • #63
    mansize
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    Dara O Briain


  • #64
    maudgonner
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    Je suis Mario wrote: »
    bono

    Psst, Mario, I think you misread the thread title. It's Public Figures, not Pubic Figures.

    :pac:


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
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    Joanne O'Riordan.

    For all the right reasons. She is just a delight to listen to. A proper inspiration and still only 19.


  • #66
    Ruu
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    Daniel O'Donnell.


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  • #67
    Richard Hillman
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    Dermot Morgan


  • #68
    [Deleted User]
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    8 Bit Girl wrote: »
    And who doesnt love Marty Whelan...

    Anybody who is pissed off at his relentless monologue every weekday morning on Lyric. We used to have calm at that time with chilled-out presenters putting the music first and calmly saying a few words once in a while. For music lovers, as opposed to waffle lovers, Whelan has singlehandedly absolutely destroyed Lyric FM in the morning. He, like that other self-absorbed "personality" waffler on Sunday Gay Byrne, is completely unsuited to the culture of Lyric.


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
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    John Hume, of course. The Hell of incessant character assassination that man endured from the Independent Newspapers rags, particularly from the Sunday Independent under the Harris and Fanning mobs for years in the early 1990s should never be forgotten. Without his persistence there would be no peace process. More than any other person the 1998 GFA (and the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement) can be traced to Hume's proposals in 1972/73 and his relentless promotion of them for decades.

    He has had alzheimers now for some years so we never hear of him. He will almost certainly have the largest funeral ever seen in Ireland in any of our lifetimes.


  • #70
    LordSutch
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Given even Terry Wogan was the recipient of bile and hatred on the day of his death, I was wondering is there an Irish public figure that is universally liked?

    ...bile and hatred, really?

    Where, when and by who did this bile & hatred come from? Pray tell me more.

    I only heard and read glowing reports about Sir Terry on the day of his death.


  • #71
    Shrap
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    ...bile and hatred, really?

    Where, when and by who did this bile & hatred come from? Pray tell me more.

    I only heard and read glowing reports about Sir Terry on the day of his death.

    No, no. There was. On some god awful republican face book pages...there was a thread about it here (or it was in the RIP thread, but has been moderated to take out the links and nasty stuff). The bile was seriously the lowest kind of undeserved abuse of someone who'd just died - pure scummy stuff :(


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