Have you ever met anybody famous?

[Norm]

Twink

[Roadend]

Sam Torranace(not a nice man)

He was probably upset at being called Torranace...

[rambler14]

He was probably upset at being called Torranace...

My apologies Sam Torrance

[stojkovic]

Twink

Did she take you, roughly.

[Newryrep]

Ha brilliant

The list for myself would be:

Roy Keane(numerous times)
Packie Bonner
Paul McGrath
Daniel O'Donnell(legend!)
Raimand Van Der Gouw
Brian McClair(bit of a grump)
Sam Torrance(not a nice man)
Eamonn Darcy
Padraig Harrington(I asked him for a golf ball...he said no)
Sonia O'Sullivan
Jimmy White
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Neil Lennon
Seán óg O'Hailpin, Diarmuid O'Sullivan(Sat next to them on a plane from Dublin, we started flopping pure orange juice)
Brian Corcoran
Darren Clarke
Lee Westwood
Colin Montgomerie
Graham McDowell
Sandy Lyle
Ian Poulter(He signed his autograph with a pink pen!)
Ian Woosnam
Paul Casey
Thomas Levet(Very Funny man)
Thomas Bjorn
Seve Ballesteros(funny man, what a shame he's retired!)
Fred Funk
Justin Rose

I hope I didn't forget anybody!..............I think I did!

Are you Pat Kenny ?

[Fair_play_boy]

Threw a scowl at Charlie Haughey. As he scowled back, one of his sons (the helicopter one) threw me an even dirtier look. That was at Cork Ford Week down in Crosser.
Spoke briefly to the king of Spain on a beach in Menorca. Got a surly non-verbal reaction. Didn’t know who he was until later.
Chatted with Richard Branson on the same beach the following day. Uber friendly.
Exchanged Hellos with Sevvy Ballesteros a few minutes after chatting with Branson. Seemed friendly.
Met Bono the night U2 played support to Freddie White, back in the day.
Served a soda water and blackcurrant to Tommy Makem in a bar in Killarney
Served Mary Hegarty as one of my afternoon regulars in the same bar.
Got Johnny Giles autograph while he was playing for Leeds.
Mary Coughlan before she got on the wagon.
Booed Ian Woosnam at Portmarnock in 1988 for having played in Sun City.
Had dinner with Brian Farrell
Met Gay Byrne on the set of the Late Late show (Wife dragged me there. Honest).
Met Munster rugby’s Mick Galway in a narrow hallway in UCC. I had to reverse. He is a huge man.
Met Christy Moore at a wedding. What a lovely guy.
Chatted with Rory Gallagher in a bar down by City hall. Shy and awkward.
George O’Callaghan. Actually my daughter chatted with him in UCC bar when she was 10, shortly after winning the league. He could not have been nicer to her. Made her day.
Met Jack Lynch in The Bosun in Passage West the week before he fell ill.
Peter Sheridan, on a project in Rialto years ago.
Rose Dugdale, at a meeting in Rialto where she and I were both asked to leave.
Paul Hill (Guildford four) and his wife Courtney Kennedy, in a pub in Doolin.
Marty Whelan, at the jazz weekend a few years back.
Bertie Ahern twice, really amiable. Seemed totally natural.
Saw Eamonn de Valera in Cork when I was a kid. (Does that count?)
Billy Hutchinson of the Progressive Unionist Party, strolling along Castle Street in Cork a few years back. Surprised that he was recognised.
Saw Patricia Cornwell at the Late Late Show.

[biscuit]

Met Ian Rush n Jan Molby in a niteclub after the legends game a few weeks back.Molby was an absolute gentleman, Rush...a complete ****.
And I know im not the only one in sligo with that opinion after his visit here.

[sligoman]

Charlie Bird was behind me in queue going through security in Dublin airport on Monday.

[Mr Maroon]

Roy Keane (really sound)
Damien Duff (sound)
Shay Given (sound)
Clinton Morrisson (grumpy)
Graham Kavanagh
Stev Finnan
Alan Quinn
Gary Breen
Kevin Kilbane
Johnathan Macken (remember him?)
Kenny Cunningham
Brian Kerr
John O'Shea
Chris Houghton

Petr Cech
Milan Baros
Pavel Nedved (Legend!)

An old timer from Brazil called Coutinho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coutinho
(He played with Pele!)

Packie Bonner (in Terryland)
Ronnie Whelan
Frank Stapleton
Paul McGrath

Mark Viduka

Do Derek O'Brien and Tony Cousins count?

[gustavo]

I passed by Gary Breen and David Connolly the day before an Ireland match on Grafton Street

Steve McManaman in Bruxelles the day of the Ireland England rugby match in Croke Park

Ray Houghton in McDonalds at Dublin Airport the day after an Ireland match and Kevin Moran going through security later the same day

Not me but a friend was working in a pub in Swinford when one day Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn strolled in for a pint

[bennocelt]

Chatted with Rory Gallagher in a bar down by City hall. Shy and awkward.
.

interesting
I am big fan of his, and have heard he was extremely shy


As for me, only really met a few of the Irish squad - Robbie, Niall Quinn, Dunne, Harte, Kelly.and they were all pretty cool and friendly, even Robbie and the blonde hanging out of him

[KR's Post]

Shay Given
Phil and April Magera in Paris at eifel tower ireland game 2004
PJ Gallagher
The edge
Bon Jovi
Pierce Brosnan
Uwe Rossler after a bray game once. Scouting Zayed he was.
Mick McCarthy
Neil Lennon
All Celtic Players
Gordon Starchan
Bono

[Angus]

I was in NY for the Italy game in Giants stadium.

Was in a McDonalds on 7th avenue the day before with an ireland jersey when 2 African American gentlemen came up to talk to me.

One of them told me that he really hoped Ireland would win - I could not believe that NY guys, especially non Anglo Saxon types would even have heard about the world cup, never mind know about games. He then told me that the only reason Ireland would win was that we had 3 Aston Villa players playing.

I unwisely then asked a guy who subsequently turned out to be Dwight Yorke to tell me who his Irish Villa colleagues were......d'oh