'Heroes'... (no, not the TV show)

George Orwell
Charles Dickens
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Clint Eastwood
Nick Cave
Morrissey (even though he's a prat!)
Ricky Gervais
Bill Hicks
Spike Milligan
Peter Cook
Michael Palin
Bob Dylan
Neil Hannon
Richard Dawkins
Corny though it may be, every person in Ireland who goes regularly to see their local side play. :)

Some right strange people here picked as Heroes!

Hunter S. Thompson ??????? Who?
Obama? What the hell has he ever done for you personally?
Morrissey? AGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH:eek: An insult to the world of music.
Bob Geldof? Sure when you're rich it is easy to preach about giving to the third world, plus every chance he gets he likes to belittle the Irish way of life.
Niall Stokes & Jackie Hayden? A lot of the the crap written in their mag has feck all to to with the music industry. It's like the Sunday World written by 10 year olds.
Michael Parkinson? Who?
Jeff Stelling? Who?
Declan Lynch? You mean that fella who wrote a few books and scribbles in the papers? You can't pick him he's my deceased father in law's nephew!
Alex Higgins? This dude should be locked up, do some research about him before posting him as a hero.
Dick Spring? Preach to the masses and then get out of Labour and line his pockets with money earned on state boards (money for the old boys club.)


My Heroes:
Zig and Zag (Genius X 2) (Appeared on an Irish postage stamp)
Rory Gallagher (guitar player) (Appeared on an Irish postage stamp)
Michael Scott (Dublin writer)
Mary Stokes (The sister of Niall Stokes and the greatest female Blues singer in Ireland)
Jesus (Any dude who can walk on water must be respected!) (Appeared on an Irish postage stamp)
Micheal O'Connor (former football player/manager)
Gerry Adams (Great writer, story teller)
Pat Shortt (Musician, writer, actor, director, comedian) (Appeared on an Irish postage stamp)
Red Lemonade (Because it confuses the Yanks and the Brits!)
Pat Ingoldsby (Great poet)

Ciaran Carey
Muhamad Ali
Mike Tyson
Marco Antonio Barrera
Ken Doherty
Arnie/Sly/Bruce Willis
Johnny Depp
Marlon Brando
Tom Hanks
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Pogues (Well Shane)
Luke Kelly
Hunter S Thompson
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Stephen King
Tim Burton
John Carpenter
Martin Scorsese
Nelson Mandela
Bobby Sands
Che Guevara

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Some right strange people here picked as Heroes!

Obama? What the hell has he ever done for you personally?
Morrissey? AGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH:eek: An insult to the world of music.
Bob Geldof? Sure when you're rich it is easy to preach about giving to the third world, plus every chance he gets he likes to belittle the Irish way of life.
Alex Higgins? This dude should be locked up, do some research about him before posting him as a hero.


My Heroes:
Rory Gallagher (guitar player) (Appeared on an Irish postage stamp)
Pat Ingoldsby (Great poet)

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Obama is cool
Morrisey is cool
Agree with Bob Geldof - im also surprised how many people put him on there lists - I mean him and Bono are an embarrassment to the nation - but then maybe people put him down on their list for his music:eek:
Alex H - you obviously are not a fan of snooker then!!!!!!:rolleyes:

Rory Ga is cool
And Pat was cool - have you ever seen him on the streets of Dublin selling his books - or at least it looks like him - he should be back on our TV - he was great in the 80's

Scrufil, they are personal heroes, and if you dont agree with them then that is your opinion but here goes with my response!

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Some right strange people here picked as Heroes!


Obama? - given me hope that someday everyone will be treated equally
Bob Geldof? - Brought a desperate situation to the attention of the world, used his fame for purposes other than money spinning for himself and helped other famous people think about looking outside their bubble. Alot to admire in him, even down to taking in his daughters sister when she was orphaned.
Niall Stokes & Jackie Hayden? They are heroes to me on a personal level, they both changed my life somewhat and my time working with them were the happiest days of my life. Also with regard to Hotpress, they have campaigned for some vital issues and brought a voice to young people for 30 odd years now, whether you like the style of their writing or not is irrelevant, its the intention behind it all that makes it worthwhile. They have given Irish bands a launchpad in many ways.


My Heroes:

Gerry Adams - is only a hero for getting away with that awful beard for years
Pat Shortt - together with Brendan Carroll make up the unfunniest people on the planet
Pat Ingoldsby - no a slightly eccentric man who writes mildly amusing poetry. For a great poet check out Shelley, Heaney or Kavanagh

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Noel Gallagher
Jim Carrey
Raffaele Cretaro
Robbie Keane
Bill Hicks
Kurt Cobain
Frank Skinner
Brian O'Driscoll
Julian Casablancas
Ricky Gervais
Terry O'Quinn
Ronaldinho

Stephen Fry
Charles Thompson (AKA Frank Black AKA Black Francis)
Tony Gregory (deceased)
David Norris
Garret Fitzgerald
Colin Scanlon

Jim....

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Originally Posted by Scrufil

Hunter S. Thompson ??????? Who?
Michael Parkinson? Who?
Jeff Stelling? Who?
Dick Spring? Preach to the masses and then get out of Labour and line his pockets with money earned on state boards (money for the old boys club)

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Hunter S. Thompson = Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, surreal writer.
Michael Parkinson = Can't believe you don't know who he is, especially after he's been in the news over his Jade Goody comments.
Jeff Stelling = Sky Sports football announcer. He's great entertainment.

Dick Spring = The Spring Tide and for keeping Bertie away from the Taoiseach's seat for two and a half years.

Earthworm Jim.
Pinky and the Brain.

Captain Planet - He's a hero!
Gonna take pollution down to zero!

I suppose my biggest heroes would have been sporting, people like Sonia O'Sullivan, Michael Carruth and Wayne McCullagh, pretty much any Irish sportsperson to have any international success. On a more local level, Gorge O'Connor, Liam Dunne, Martin Storey, Ger Cushe and Tom Dempsey would have to get a mention, the great Wexford hutling team if the 90's.

I've never really had political heroes I suppose Nelson Mandela is as close as it gets. No writers that I'd call heroes, plenty of authors that I enjoy reading but no hero per say, well maybe Enid Blyton :)

On another note I interviewed Jakie Hayden for a radio show on South East radio as part of a PLC course I was on. He's a very nice man and is credtited with discovering U2 (probably makes him even less worthy of hero status for many on here!).

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Jim.....

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My choice also.

Indescribable.

John Hayes
Jim

Jim looks to be near the lead with 5 votes, heroic stuff.

How the hell does that guy not know who Hunter Thompson is and yet doesn't have an issue with me having Charles Bukowski on the list? :confused:

Agree on Geldof, insufferable prat who mouths off about affairs that have nothing to do with him. I also have zero respect for any millionaire who practically berates working people to stop being so greedy and to give money to a cause that will never be solved by working people handing over their money

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Originally Posted by thischarmingman

George Orwell
Charles Dickens
Clint Eastwood
Ricky Gervais
Bill Hicks
Spike Milligan
Michael Palin
Bob Dylan
Richard Dawkins
Corny though it may be, every person in Ireland who goes regularly to see their local side play. :)

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Jesus, you might be my alter ego.


oh, wait.........

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Originally Posted by thischarmingman

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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ah......maybe not.

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Originally Posted by superfrank

Hunter S. Thompson = Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, surreal writer.
Michael Parkinson = Can't believe you don't know who he is, especially after he's been in the news over his Jade Goody comments.
Jeff Stelling = Sky Sports football announcer. He's great entertainment.

Dick Spring = The Spring Tide and for keeping Bertie away from the Taoiseach's seat for two and a half years.

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I can honestly say I'd never heard of Hunter S Thompson nor of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' until I read it here. I just wondered why more than one person here picked him out. I suppose it could be some airy pie in the sky journalistic favourite style thing.
I have heard of Micheal Parkinson but he registers as a nobody on my scale as I don't watch BBC, ITV, Channel 4, rarely watch TV3 and I refuse to subscribe to anything remotely related to Sky, hence the reason why I've never heard of Stelling.
I regard Dick Spring as being even worse than Bertie Ahern in terms of creaming off Irish money.

There are other choices here that remain just that - choices, but there tends to be no expansion on why this pick was made. I shots holes in the ones that caught my eye as being strange.

Magicme wrote:
For a great poet check out Shelley, Heaney or Kavanagh.

I've read these. Heaney is still alive but is only an average poet in my opinion. He tends to overuse the same few phrases too often nor, as far as I'm aware, has he ever written anything in Irish. He has limitations in the variety of his subjects too.

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Originally Posted by Scrufil

Some right strange people here picked as Heroes!

Hunter S. Thompson ??????? Who?
Michael Parkinson? Who?
Jeff Stelling? Who?
Declan Lynch? You mean that fella who wrote a few books and scribbles in the papers? You can't pick him he's my deceased father in law's nephew!

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This should help:

http://www.ScrufilAid.ie/

George W Bush .. just for getting away with it.


On geldof i can see why people list him he saw a problem and tried to fix it, just because aid to Africa ended up being one of the biggist mistake of the western world is not his fault.