He was born in Scotland of Irish parents (mad wikipedia fact - his father shovelled **** for a living). I wouldn't have a problem with people like him (or Phil Lynott or Paul McGrath) being included.
I'll row in behind other criticisms, particularly Gately. No offence to the lad, but anyone who was responsible for him getting onto the final ten should be harmed physically.
I'm surprised Dustin the Turkey didn't make it.
Went up to Saratoga, where my horse naturally won.
and no terry wogan ??Originally Posted by Longfordian
" football is a simple game "
He failed the drugs test, out of it on goof balls.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
Good to see 60-70% of the list, particularly Browne and Connolly in 2 and 3.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
So how did Geldof and Bono make it?
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Yeah - same for yer man, Michelle Smith.
Quoting years at random since 1975
Went for Geldof myself. The man has really dedicated his life to making the world a better place and has made a difference, though not yet near as much a difference he would like to.
I'd rephrase it as "he has made a difference, though not yet near as much a difference as he'd like people to believe he has."
Public polls like this are largely useless but I might as well row in and say that anyone who thinks Stephen Gately should be in that list rather than James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift or Edmund Burke are absolute mentalists. It's a travesty none of the above made the cut by the way. Hell, Graham Linehan is far worthier than any of Ireland's pop exports of the last decade.
Interesting the number of people who put Emmett in- brave and idealistic sure, but also a rather misguided, ill-prepared, over-hasty revolutionary, no?
Not the biggest fan of Geldof, for what it's worth he's getting a bit of a kicking in the UK press at the moment . I'd accept his inclusion on the basis of Live Aid though.
John Hume, Ronnie Drew and Rory Gallagher I have no problems with either, although I see only Hume made the top 10. I'd also happily argue Gay Byrne's case and if (in the interests of TV) we're making the list as inclusive of as many disciplines as possible, George Best and Roy Keane would have to be there. Neither would be near my first choice though. There's a case for Eddie Irvine too, but again, nowhere near the top 10 Irish people of all time.
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I'll go with John O'Shea for making it out of Waterford.Bono
Dr. Noel Browne
Michael Collins
James Connolly
Éamon De Valera
Joe Dolan (sweet Jesus!)
Ronnie Drew
Colin Farrell (head in hands)
Garret Fitzgerald
Stephen Gately (This is getting embarrasing!)
Bob Geldof
Padraig Harrington
Charles Haughey
Séamus Heaney
John Hume
James Joyce
John B Keane
Roy Keane
Ronan Keating (Fcuk me!)
Séan Lemass
Jack Lynch
Phil Lynott
Paul McGrath
Christy Moore
Liam Neeson (nahh!)
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Donnell
Brian O'Driscoll
Michael O'Leary (he'll probably get passengers to vote for him at the check-in desk!)
John O'Shea
Sonia O'Sullivan
Charles Stewart Parnell
Pádraig Pearse
Christy Ring
Mary Robinson
Adi Roche (head in feet)
Wolfe Tone
Louis Walsh
Oscar Wilde
WB Yeats
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
I think he himself referred to his efforts to in Africa as a failure. I'm not in love with his personality, but the good far outweighs the bad. Some of the others mentioned in that list have contributed quite little in comparison.
Which made me remember Dermot Morgan, who's also nowhere near as good as Stephen Gately.
Ah Osasuran you can do better than that. I don't always agree with his perspective and the Big Breakfast is unforgivable but the guy basically gave up his career to do that which was in his power to do to help. If only half a dozen genuinely powerful political leaders did similar you'd solve a lot of the worlds problems I daresay.
Met him once actually - great guy to chat to. He asks a question and he's genuinely interested in your answer -It's a quality I find rare enough.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Maybe you're really boring?
There's no maybe about it TCM. I'm a whingey fecker with it. More credit to him.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Please tell me you are joking.......................
Made people realise how underappreciated Foster and Allen were?
...or at least expand on that statement a bit. I don't see how either "band" have "done a lot for Ireland" in any sense -least of all musically. Nothing to do with my personal taste either. I gravely doubt many who've been to see Westlife, watched their vids or listened to the recordings they were partially involved in came away from the experience and said "Y'know what ...I must visit Ireland".
As for musically - I can't imagine Boyzone or Westlife would sound much different if they were from Argentina, Indonesia or Indo-China. There's little inherently Irish about them that way either -so no kudos on that front.
I can't even see a minor trickle down in terms of their effect on other Irish-origin purveyors of bland lifeless homogenised pop music to be straight about it.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
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