RTE doing the same thing as the BBC a while back - who is the greatest Irish person ever.
This is the shortlisted 40.
No Rory Gallagher or Luke Kelly but Stephen Gately, Ronan Keating and Louis Walsh make it. Incredible.
No Paddy Kavanagh, George Bernard Shaw or Samuel Beckett either.
Cant believe you singled out 3 gays farmer. :unsure:
I can see how this would perturb you as you do like your lists.
Jesus thats a fair shit list.
The winner must be God.
That top line makes for some reading; Noel Browne, Michael Collins, James Connolly, DeValera, and Bono.
I’d say Garret Fitzgerald has never been as pleased to be in the same company as Ronnie Drew.
Daniel O’Connell should win this but it would hillarious if Daniel O’Donnell did.
I would love if Padraig Pearse won it, purely for the frenzy it would send the Sindo into
Just thinking about this a little more.
Fair enough there are probably too many writers but how does John B get in there ahead of Kavanagh and Beckett?
Also, Gay Byrne is more deserving than Louis Walsh to be in the list.
Richard Harris more deserving than Colin Farrell.
Billy Byrne is more deserving than Louis Walsh for fuck sake
Dev should win this hands down
James connolly was scottish.
The list above just goes to show that , by and large, irish people are as stupid and clueless as ever.
adi roche? do me a fuckin favour
The greatest irish people in recent history were the ones who manned the barricades in the General Post Office, the Four Courts, Jacob’s Factory, Boland’s Bakery, the South Dublin Union, St. Stephen’s Green and later the College of Surgeons.
DeValera was an American. Did you know that?
:rolleyes:
Dev? You obviously never watched Michael Collins.
Cassius Clay is from Clare.
Ali is the greatest.
Ergo.
Ali should win this.
To be fair wtb I’m sure you have more of a problem with Hume, Heaney etc being on the list as they aren’t Irish.
Stephen Gately :lol: if he wasn’t dead he’d be knowhere near this list
He’s dead? :o
Wouldn’t be so sure about that - Ronan feckin Keating is on it.
Ya, he caught the gay and was dead in no time. A horrible horrible disease.
Fucking hell. This gay thing is really catching it seems. Any idea where he caught it? I heard a rumour it may have been at the opera?
I fear they wanted Gayley in it and couldn’t justify it without putting Keating on it.