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Irish celebrities who suddenly vanished out of the spotlight

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    #2042
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    He did one of the first karaoke shows in Ireland, in one of the pubs in Rathmines, late 80s I think.

    He's still around. You can book him to DJ your wedding. Owns his own company, Murray Events.


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    #2043
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Anyone remember this Sindo hack who ran as a Unionist councillor in West Cork circa mid 90s? Possibly as a joke. This guy was the spitting image of Brendan Behan. Would see him pop up on RTE from time to time. Possibly died since.


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    #2044
    NewbridgeIR
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Anyone remember this Sindo hack who ran as a Unionist councillor in West Cork circa mid 90s? Possibly as a joke. This guy was the spitting image of Brendan Behan. Would see him pop up on RTE from time to time. Possibly died since.

    Stan Gebler Davies. Not a nice man. One of Ireland's "bohemians"

    He's on the left of this pic.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/garech-browne-thank-you-and-sorry-and-goodbye-1.3428164

    It was the 1987 election. He died in 1994.


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    #2045
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Stan Gebler Davies. Not a nice man. One of Ireland's "bohemians"

    He's on the left of this pic.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/garech-browne-thank-you-and-sorry-and-goodbye-1.3428164

    It was the 1987 election. He died in 1994.

    Yes that's him.


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    #2046
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    That Sri Lankan woman with the unpronouncable name. Used to be on Newstalk up to a few years ago.


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    #2047
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    That Sri Lankan woman with the unpronouncable name. Used to be on Newstalk up to a few years ago.

    Dil Wickremasinghe?

    Has a podcast. Still around.


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    #2048
    E mac
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Whatever became of Brendan Kilkenny? Tried and failed entertainer/performer. Appeared on Irish talent shows but had no talent...


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    #2049
    Pawwed Rig
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    E mac wrote: »
    Whatever became of Brendan Kilkenny? Tried and failed entertainer/performer. Appeared on Irish talent shows but had no talent...

    He was renting himself out for parties and events the last time I heard of him. Not sure what he would actually do when he got there


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    #2050
    ShyMets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    He was renting himself out for parties and events the last time I heard of him. Not sure what he would actually do when he got there

    He's from the same part of Dublin I'm originally from. I was thought maths by his Brother in secondary school. He was a very good teacher but like his Brother a little eccentric

    Works in the Civil Service and lives in the family home. He still has the long hair (although thankfully no longer dyed) and awful fashion sense.


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    #2051
    Beechwoodspark
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Dil Wickremasinghe?

    Has a podcast. Still around.

    Just checked. The last episode of her “insight matters” podcast was in nov 2019.


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    #2052
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Just checked. The last episode of her “insight matters” podcast was in nov 2019.

    She's training to be a psychotherapist now.

    Jack of all trades, that one-master of none, tho.


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    #2053
    madnessnmayhem
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭madnessnmayhem


    E mac wrote: »
    Whatever became of Brendan Kilkenny? Tried and failed entertainer/performer. Appeared on Irish talent shows but had no talent...


    I see him most mornings in town on the way to work, think he's back in the Civil Service now, still has his (what's left of top head) long hair, wears weird suits still


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    Feets
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    What about Lisa Murphy...she was on the Dublin wives program and went out with Michael Flatley and Gerald Keane?


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    #2055
    Nokia6230i
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    Feets wrote: »
    What about Lisa Murphy...she was on the Dublin wives program and went out with Michael Flatley and Gerald Keane?

    I legit thought she was also the blonde on John Delaneys arm til I found out her name is Emma English....and no longer on JDs arm.


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    #2056
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Feets wrote: »
    What about Lisa Murphy...she was on the Dublin wives program and went out with Michael Flatley and Gerald Keane?

    Such an odd show-'Dublin Wives'... yet most of them were unmarried, never married, or engaged (only to break up).

    Flatley paid for her face and fake breasts too...then dumped her and married someone he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.


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    #2057
    RandomViewer
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Such an odd show-'Dublin Wives'... yet most of them were unmarried, never married, or engaged (only to break up).

    Flatley paid for her face and fake breasts too...then dumped her and married someone he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

    They bought the format having "Wives" in the title is probably part of it


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    #2058
    George White
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    They didn't buy the format - they stole it, hence why they had to change the title from Dublin Housewives.


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    #2059
    RandomViewer
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    George White wrote: »
    They didn't buy the format - they stole it, hence why they had to change the title from Dublin Housewives.

    Didnt know that,


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    #2060
    fitznyc
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    Jayziz, rediscovered Boards.ie, to discover what happened to Philip from Bosco. Found this gem of a thread. Well done everyone. Still haven't found what happened to poor Philip though.


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    #2061
    Strumms
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Just checked. The last episode of her “insight matters” podcast was in nov 2019.

    A complete melt of an individual... very much in love with the sound of her own voice and not much time for anybody who didn’t want to agree with her opinions.


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    #2062
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    fitznyc wrote: »
    Jayziz, rediscovered Boards.ie, to discover what happened to Philip from Bosco. Found this gem of a thread. Well done everyone. Still haven't found what happened to poor Philip though.

    Phillip Tyler sadly passed away some time in the 80s or 90s.
    Strumms wrote: »
    A complete melt of an individual... very much in love with the sound of her own voice and not much time for anybody who didn’t want to agree with her opinions.

    Couldn't hold down a sponsor to save her life, yet saw everyone else as the problem.
    Couldn't believe it when she was fired from radio, despite having a listenership so low, she couldn't even get advertising.

    Now she's going to be a psychologist/psychotherapist... I pity the poor fools who go to her for help with their mental health.


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    #2063
    Hill St Blue
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    Strumms wrote: »
    A complete melt of an individual... very much in love with the sound of her own voice and not much time for anybody who didn’t want to agree with her opinions.

    Her partner / wife (I'm not sure if they're married) has a therapy centre called Insight Matters, so I guess there's a guaranteed job after her training. It's an LGBTQ practice, according to their blurb, and after a quick google, it says it was "Founded by social entrepreneurs Anne Marie Toole and Dil Wickremasinghe." I'm not quite sure what a social entrepreneur is, but there ya have it!


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    #2064
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Hill St Blue wrote: »
    Her partner / wife (I'm not sure if they're married) has a therapy centre called Insight Matters, so I guess there's a guaranteed job after her training. It's an LGBTQ practice, according to their blurb, and after a quick google, it says it was "Founded by social entrepreneurs Anne Marie Toole and Dil Wickremasinghe." I'm not quite sure what a social entrepreneur is, but there ya have it!


    Jesus....


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    #2065
    freshpopcorn
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

    Now she's going to be a psychologist/psychotherapist... I pity the poor fools who go to her for help with their mental health.

    Husband and wife attends for couselling.
    Wife is beating husband daily with an iron and gold club.
    Dil it's the husband fault.


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    #2066
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Such an odd show-'Dublin Wives'... yet most of them were unmarried, never married, or engaged (only to break up).

    Flatley paid for her face and fake breasts too...then dumped her and married someone he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

    jaysis had forgotten about that car crash of a show. Whatever happened to yer one who had the botox clinic on it?


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    Feets
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Feets


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    jaysis had forgotten about that car crash of a show. Whatever happened to yer one who had the botox clinic on it?
    A standup comedian in LA.....................................................................................................................................................................:eek:


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    #2068
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Feets wrote: »
    A standup comedian in LA.....................................................................................................................................................................:eek:

    Ah, sure, Dil What's-her-face claims to be a comedian as well.

    Used to be a video of her 'standup' comedy... it was painful...

    Someone repeatedly kicking you in the head for an hour would be greeted with more laughs.


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    #2069
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Dolores McNamara, the Lotto winner from Limerick. Last heard of her when she got burned in that Eddie Hobbs linked Detroit property fiasco.


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    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭Radio5


    No strictly Irish but Joe Elliott from Def Lepard. He & his missus used to be at all 'society' events back in the good old days, part of the South Dublin set. No a word of them now.


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    #2071
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Radio5 wrote: »
    No strictly Irish but Joe Elliott from Def Lepard. He & his missus used to be at all 'society' events back in the good old days, part of the South Dublin set. No a word of them now.

    Presume hes not living in Dublin anymore? He was one of the team captains on Number One, RTE music quiz.


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