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Boards.ie Irelands Greatest Person

  • 24-03-2010 1:50pm
    #1
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭


    OK

    Sorry if my list is not perfect, but I think its a better list that RTE's

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055861483

    Please Vote

    Please Vote 330 votes

    Van Morrison
    0% 0 votes
    Rory Gallagher
    1% 4 votes
    Robert Boyle
    5% 19 votes
    Edmund Burke
    3% 11 votes
    Jonathan Swift
    0% 3 votes
    Michael Collins
    0% 2 votes
    Patrick Pearse
    32% 108 votes
    Charles Stewart Parnell
    4% 16 votes
    Phill Lynnot
    4% 14 votes
    Christy Moore
    3% 12 votes
    Tom Crean
    2% 7 votes
    Oscar Wilde.
    3% 11 votes
    W B Yeats
    12% 40 votes
    Brian Boru
    5% 19 votes
    Grace O'Malley
    1% 6 votes
    Arthur Wellesley
    0% 1 vote
    Samuel Beckett
    0% 2 votes
    Constance Markievicz
    0% 3 votes
    Henry Grattan
    2% 7 votes
    James Connolly
    0% 1 vote
    Ernest Shakleton
    3% 11 votes
    Daniel OConnell
    2% 7 votes
    George Best
    3% 10 votes
    John Hume
    1% 6 votes
    Dr. Noel Browne
    3% 10 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    What's this thread for?


  • #3
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Schism wrote: »
    What's this thread for?
    Boards.ie Irelands Greatest Person


  • #4
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,129 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Schism wrote: »
    What's this thread for?

    Boards.ie's worst lists poll with no poll or list.


  • #5
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Winty wrote: »
    OK

    Sorry if my list is not perfect, but I think its a better list that RTE's

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055861483

    Please Vote

    Where is your list? You just gave a link to a 200 post thread I am not bothered reading. Did you make a list somewhere in there? Or do you want us to make a list? How about we just take a step back a few hours and just keep talking about Boobie Bombs?


  • #6
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    NothingMan wrote: »
    Where is your list? You just gave a link to a 200 post thread I am not bothered reading. Did you make a list somewhere in there?

    Its up now

    It takes time to write 25 names


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  • #7
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Robert Mugabe


  • #8
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Where's Chuck Norris?
    Begrudger wrote:
    But he's not Irish!

    You try telling him that and living


  • #9
    Co45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Co45


    If your going to include a sporting figure surely it would be Brian O'Driscoll?
    Only sporting figure we've ever had whos been considered the best in the world in his sport for over a decade.


  • #10
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Pft, No Louis Walsh :rolleyes:


  • #11
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Winty wrote: »
    Its up now

    It takes time to write 25 names


    You left out Stephen Gately!


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  • #12
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    no no, it's definitely stephen gately, like come on people, he died! :rolleyes:


  • #13
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Mr Michael Collins.


  • #14
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Most of that list wouldn't know great if it bit them in the arse.

    Willie Bermingham was great.


  • #15
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    Biran Boru is in twice.


  • #16
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    The Uncrowned King of Ireland, Charles Stewart Parnell

    (I voted for Louis Walsh on the real one cos there was no Bertie)

    How come Oscar Wilde gets a full stop and the others don't?


  • #17
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    You forgot Mary Robinson


  • #18
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    No Hammy, again!

    But at least Christy Fcuking Moore is on it. LOL


  • #19
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    trad wrote: »
    Biran Boru is in twice.

    Crap, can I change It to someone else?


  • #20
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    phasers wrote: »

    How come Oscar Wilde gets a full stop and the others don't?

    I have fat fingers


  • #21
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Winty wrote: »
    I have fat fingers
    Is that you Gerry?


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  • #22
    Nichololas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Nichololas


    Winty wrote: »
    Its up now

    It takes time to write 25 names

    It didn't occur to you to write them out before making the thread?

    I can imagine Oscar Wilde being a boardsie, although he'd probably get banned from AH.


  • #23
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    He'd only post in LGB. ;)


  • #24
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Nichololas wrote: »
    It didn't occur to you to write them out before making the thread?

    I can imagine Oscar Wilde being a boardsie, although he'd probably get banned from AH.

    I did have a list but I needed 2 minutes to copy and paste, its not easy with the AH mob on my back


  • #25
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Can a Mod help me

    As you will see I doubled up on Mr. Boru, feel free to remove one and input your very own.

    Cheers

    Sorry I wrote Mob and not Mod, I have fat fingers


  • #26
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,102 ✭✭✭mathie


    Winty wrote: »
    Can a Mod help me

    As you will see I doubled up on Mr. Boru, feel free to remove one and input your very own.

    Cheers

    Sorry I wrote Mob and not Mod, I have fat fingers

    Remove one or add one?

    Ah sure lets have a third Brian Boru.


  • #27
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    What about Arthur Guinness?
    Surely he has touched us all:D



    (Not in the catholic priest/michael jackson sense)


  • #28
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    What about Arthur Guinness?
    Surely he has touched us all:D

    Nope. 'Orrible stuff!
    Road tar in a glass. Yuck!


  • #29
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    Van Morrison
    Rory Gallagher
    Phil Lynnot
    Christy Moore

    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work? Why does a cranky twat like Van Morrison belong on this list but U2 dont? You may prefer his music but he is renowned as a twat and has not been as influential.

    There is no way you can make a list of greatest Irish people and include musicians but not include U2/Bono.

    P.S. A musician can never be the greatest Irish person ever.


  • #30
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,982 ✭✭✭Degag


    Co45 wrote: »
    If your going to include a sporting figure surely it would be Brian O'Driscoll?
    Only sporting figure we've ever had whos been considered the best in the world in his sport for over a decade.

    Has he?:confused: First i heard of it.


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  • #31
    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    No Michael Davitt option yet again? For shame!


  • #32
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work? Why does a cranky twat like Van Morrison belong on this list but U2 dont? You may prefer his music but he is renowned as a twat and has not been as influential.

    There is no way you can make a list of greatest Irish people and include musicians but not include U2/Bono.

    P.S. A musician can never be the greatest Irish person ever.
    Bono is the biggest twat to ever come out of Ireland and U2's music is far from influential, it's the same song over and over again


  • #33
    cosmic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭cosmic


    Still no Norris? Tsk tsk.

    Aphex Twin is actually Irish. I vote him. or Norris. Despite the fact that they're not on your poll...


  • #34
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work?

    When U2 pay tax in Ireland they can be on the list


  • #35
    samsemtex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 935 ✭✭✭samsemtex


    phasers wrote: »
    Bono is the biggest twat to ever come out of Ireland and U2's music is far from influential, it's the same song over and over again

    In your opinion. they are the biggest band in the world by quite a distance therefore I would say they have been slightly influential. How could they not be? If you dont like them fair enough but there is no way you can claim they havent been influential.

    Bono is a twat. fair enough. He still does a **** load of humanitarian work. Criticize him all you want but there is no way you can say he hasnt achieved way more than Van Morrison or Phil Lynnott.


  • #36
    fifth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭fifth


    No BOD?

    Shocking!


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  • #37
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    A bunch of musicians and the like being nominated over people who were actually important and made a difference.

    You don't even have William Rowan Hamilton or O'Connell up there, for shame.


  • #38
    Co45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Co45


    Degag wrote: »
    Has he?:confused: First i heard of it.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/news-comment/odriscoll-leads-rugby-world-magazines-team-of-the-decade-1859654.html

    ;)


  • #39
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work? Why does a cranky twat like Van Morrison belong on this list but U2 dont? You may prefer his music but he is renowned as a twat and has not been as influential.

    There is no way you can make a list of greatest Irish people and include musicians but not include U2/Bono.

    P.S. A musician can never be the greatest Irish person ever.

    Some things you don't admit to liking on boards;

    1. Fianna fáil
    2. The catholic church (or indeed any religion)
    3. The daily mail
    4. Bankers
    5. Bono


  • #40
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    samsemtex wrote: »
    why are these people on the list yet no member of U2 is? U2 are the biggest band in the world and do a huge amount of humanitarian work? Why does a cranky twat like Van Morrison belong on this list but U2 dont? You may prefer his music but he is renowned as a twat and has not been as influential.

    There is no way you can make a list of greatest Irish people and include musicians but not include U2/Bono.

    P.S. A musician can never be the greatest Irish person ever.

    This post is so full of FAIL I don't know where to start.

    Rory Gallagher and Phil Lynott would comfortably p!ss all over ANY mediocre muck u2 ever produced.

    Van Morrison is indeed a [EMAIL="TW@T"]TW@T[/EMAIL] of enourmous proportions but Philo and Rory can not be mentioned in the same breath as u pathetic 2.

    That is all.


  • #41
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Rory Gallagher ftw.

    No John or Edward Grimes? They're doing for Ireland what the Cheeky Girls did for Romania.


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  • #42
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    JaxxYChicK wrote: »
    Rory Gallagher ftw.

    No John or Edward Grimes? They're doing for Ireland what the Cheeky Girls did for Romania.
    Wot? Advocating anorexia?


  • #43
    podgemonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Why in the name of fúck is Roy Keane not on the list!

    Hes the greatest irish player to ever grace the field, hes a family man etc etc... dunphy-esque drunken rant.


  • #44
    Not Kevin Myers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Not Kevin Myers


    George Bernard Shaw.


  • #45
    Co45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Co45


    podgemonster wrote: »
    Why in the name of fúck is Roy Keane not on the list!

    Hes the greatest irish player to ever grace the field, hes a family man etc etc... dunphy-esque drunken rant.

    You really want the man who abadoned his country on the world stage on the Ireland's Greatest Person list?


  • #46
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Biggins wrote: »
    Wot? Advocating anorexia?

    I thought they just had tape worms


  • #47
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    trad wrote: »
    Biran Boru is in twice.

    So is Tom Crean


  • #48
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    What about Barack Obama?? Apparently he's Fúkin Irish too. :rolleyes:


    Irish-Barack-Obama--38866.jpg





    .


  • #49
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Markievicz gets in but Connolly doesn't? Poor form.


  • #50
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    So is Tom Crean

    Crap Crap, how do I edit a poll :mad:


  • #51
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    brianthebard wrote: »
    Markievicz gets in but Connolly doesn't? Poor form.

    Can you change it add who ever you think
    2 people are in twice


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