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Greatest Living Irishman ?

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  • #52
    meditraitor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    Joe duffy


  • #53
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    I'm curious as to what people think Bono has done to warrant a title of greatest living Irishman?


  • #54
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    Mine would be
    1. Dylan Moran
    2. Roy Keane
    3. Pat Ingoldsby (now THERE'S a legend for ya)


  • #55
    wow sierra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭wow sierra


    tallaght01 wrote: »
    I'm curious as to what people think Bono has done to warrant a title of greatest living Irishman?

    Together with the rest of the boys in U2 he has created the best body of work of any rock band over the last 30 years and he has used his fame to try to effect change for the better in the world with regard to justice, climate change, equality of opportunity etc

    He can be a bit of a bore to listen to at times but so can 100% of men, Irish and foreign - just most people dont have the same amount of positive attributes.


  • #56
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    1.steve staunton
    2.brian kerr
    3.mick mc carthy

    *clicks down laptop throws it on the floor*


  • #57
    kwestfan08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭kwestfan08


    Mrs Roy Keane wrote: »
    Roy Keane

    Roy Keane gets my vote as well. A real legend.


  • #58
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    Jason McAteer


  • #59
    Dashticle
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭Dashticle


    Who's this Bono chap? Never heard of him. He must keep his head down and out of the limelight?

    I'd say Roy Keane.


  • #60
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    Sean Og


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  • #61
    PH01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭PH01


    Michael O'Leary - Ryanair Boss


  • #62
    berliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭berliner


    Mr Tayto
    Roy Keane
    Kevin Myers (agree with 90% of his musings)
    Eamon Dunphy


  • #63
    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    berliner wrote: »
    Eamon Dunphy

    :eek:

    Please explain.


  • #64
    berliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭berliner


    jimbo78 wrote: »
    :eek:

    Please explain.
    He's a legend and a damn good writer,pundit,drinker.Great Irishman.


  • #65
    jethro081
    Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭jethro081


    Too many soccer boyo's in my opinion:rolleyes:

    1-Kieran Mc Geeney-(and i'm from monaghan)

    2-Ger loughnane (the cutest of all the cute whoors)

    3-Ronan ó snódaigh-(major part in bringing real Irish music into the modern age, a real legend)

    Oh and Séamus mcenany has to get a mention just for being the banty and another real cute Whoor.


  • #66
    ChunkyMonkey79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭ChunkyMonkey79


    1. Bob Geldof
    2. Roy Keane
    3. Tommy Tiernan
    4. Dylan Moran
    5. David Norris
    6. Sean Hughes
    7. Brendan Gleeson
    8. Shay Given
    9. Glen Hansard
    10. John Giles
    11. Dr. William Cullen
    12. Michelle Smith
    13. Boner & The Hedge
    14. Brendan Shine
    15. Foster or Allen


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  • #67
    berliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭berliner


    Isn't David Norris English.He has a rather annoying upper class british accent.He's also an annoying bollix.


  • #68
    The D.C Swan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭The D.C Swan


    Is this over yet?:rolleyes: good!


  • #69
    gillyfromlyre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭gillyfromlyre


    Brendan Grace
    Foster
    Pat Spillane


  • #70
    berliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭berliner


    I've just read through all the lists and i must say they are pretty crap(except for mine).You know you're in trouble as a nation when David Norris is picked as a great irishman.Close down that bloody Senate aka Irish house of lords.


  • #71
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    I can't believe John Hume was only mentioned Twice.

    Seamus Heeny got a nobel prize didn't he? ok so I don't understand any of his stuff But Nobel Prize man ! Its gotta be like the Academy awards of Literature :D

    Jack Charlton was given Irish Citizenship so he is going on my list too.

    John Hume definitely at the top.


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  • #72
    berliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭berliner


    John Hume would get my vote as the most boring Irishman ever.He must have made that "getting rid of prejudice" remark a million times.


  • #73
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    sheesh wrote: »
    Jack Charlton was given Irish Citizenship so he is going on my list too
    Yeah is we're including ''Irish Citizenship'' then DDaniel Day-Lewis too-
    ''I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!''


  • #74
    Awesomo-4000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Awesomo-4000


    John O'Shea!!!

    just for that goal against liverpool at anfield last season!!:p


  • #75
    taidghbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭taidghbaby


    bishop brenan from father ted!

    for no other reason than he's in "memoirs of an invisible man" with chevy chase, and just called a load of fellas: goons


  • #76
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Oliver Cromwell.


  • #77
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    phantom_lord wrote: »
    Michael Collins
    Hes dead


  • #78
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    Ronnie Drew, for being the voice of Dublin.

    Dunphy, for passion and entertainment.

    Geldof, for the music as much as the charity work.


  • #79
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    Phil lynott... is legend lives on....



    or Gary moore... the worlds most Underrated guitarist !


  • #80
    elmolesto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭elmolesto


    Bono

    Podge

    Rodge


  • #81
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Roy Keane. /stirs


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  • #82
    Gina Brel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Gina Brel


    Mike Murphy
    Bish Willie Walsh


  • #83
    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    Mr Brian Cowen for his anti recession spiel


  • #84
    Pal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    Roddy Collins

    Free Nicky Kelly

    Eamon Casey


  • #85
    Pal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    ChunkyMonkey79 wrote: »
    1. Bob Geldof
    2. Roy Keane
    3. Tommy Tiernan
    4. Dylan Moran
    5. David Norris
    6. Sean Hughes
    7. Brendan Gleeson
    8. Shay Given
    9. Glen Hansard
    10. John Giles
    11. Dr. William Cullen
    12. Michelle Smith
    13. Boner & The Hedge
    14. Brendan Shine
    15. Foster or Allen

    I never heard of some of these guys :)


  • #86
    redvee81
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭redvee81


    my daddy
    ray darcy
    bob geldof
    david norris close 3rd


  • #87
    gabigeist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭gabigeist


    Terry Wogan held that amazing put back in the 80s. Legend.
    His falling-over-after-the-putt-with-massive-combover inspired the legend character, Big Ern McCracken (Kingpin)


  • #88
    SoWatchaWant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    Pat Kenny.


    I'll get me coat


  • #89
    SoWatchaWant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    berliner wrote: »
    Isn't David Norris English.He has a rather annoying upper class british accent.He's also an annoying bollix.

    He's also fabulous;) But yeah the accent is pretty... outrageous


  • #90
    Conbro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Conbro


    1. Michael McDowell
    2. Declan Ganley[potential]
    3. John Hume


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  • #91
    Conbro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Conbro


    my daddy

    :D Nice 1


  • #92
    Scotty #
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭Scotty #


    Why are people naming so many non-Irish or dead people in a list of greatest living Irishmen?

    Anyway...
    When it comes to putting Ireland on the map nobody comes close to U2 and particularly Bono. He has to be the greatest living Irishman/person.

    Whoever classed Tommy Tiernan as a 'greatest living Irishman' wants their head examined!


  • #93
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Fintan O'Tool!


  • #94
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    Scotty # wrote: »
    Why are people naming so many non-Irish or dead people in a list of greatest living Irishmen?

    Anyway...
    When it comes to putting Ireland on the map nobody comes close to U2 and particularly Bono. He has to be the greatest living Irishman/person.

    Whoever classed Tommy Tiernan as a 'greatest living Irishman' wants their head examined!

    Bono ?... that guy who cant hold a candle to phil ?? meh, might aswell name the idea stealing bob.

    Kids need their heads examined... i know taste is a hard thing to obtain but the effort is worth it.


  • #95
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Shítsu


  • #96
    Pgibson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭Pgibson


    Jackie Healy-Rae.

    .


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  • #97
    kas1970
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭kas1970


    Maybe not the greatest all things considered but I'm kind of amazed no mention of George Ivan Morrison.


  • #98
    gorgeous_george
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭gorgeous_george


    "Paddy the Irishman", the original butt of all jokes!

    haha awh no has to be:
    1. Aidan O'Brien!!!
    2. Bob Geldof.
    3. David McWilliams! (come on you know you like it when he gets all excited about economics!)


  • #99
    Sgt.Peppers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Sgt.Peppers


    living

    bono
    gay byrne
    john hume

    dead
    john lennon (hes irish to me)
    mick collins
    bobby sands


  • #100
    sensormatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭sensormatic


    donal og ya belter


  • #101
    maringo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭maringo


    Charlie Haughey
    Bertie Ahern
    Ivan Callelly:P


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