Worst Irish person in history

donfers

A nice christmasy thread to put youze all in the festive mood of goodwill to all men

remember that greatest irish person thing that was run by RTE and won by John Hume - well this is kind of the opposite of that

We'll have a few pages of nominations and then I'll set up a poll of the 5 most(or should that be least) popular

My vote goes to Bertie Ahern, he played the man of the people thing, thought he was the greatest thing since sliced pan by bringing peace to the North (Nope that was Adams, McGuinness, Hume and even Paisley) and then deregulating everything and letting every banker, property developer and wheeler-dealer get away with murder, he then bailed out when things were getting hot in the kitchen, oh and let's throw in the obligatory corruption scandal (no bank account Bertie-how forgetful of you), ah well you can always top up the non-existent bank account by appearing in shoddy cheap ads for tabloid newspapers that shame the office of Taoiseach all in the name of writing cliched populist guff about how Man U are going to win the league, and finally the the chick-lit writing daugher and boyband son-in-law add to the whole sickly feeling i get when I think of good aul Bertie, not content with destroying the economy within a country, his offspring are now destroying the only thing we have left, our culture

so he gets my vote, how about you?

bonerm

Charley Haughey.

El Guapo!

Bono

User Friendly

Charles Haughey

squod

Cunts people who voted for....

bonerm wrote: »

Charley Haughey.

or Clowen

javaboy

Tom Cruise in Far And Away.

Senna

Its not much of a thread when the winner is named in post 1.

Saila

we have a phrase if you dont like someone in history, dont worry there will be someone worse along soon

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Paul McShane.

Dudess

No way could Cowen be worse than Bertie.

Saila

User Friendly wrote: »

Charles Haughey

or Dev

Mister men

Bertie

mikemac

Dermot MacMurrough, greatest traitor in Irish history

He was ousted as King of Leinster and invited over Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, better known as Strongbow over for military help.
Henry II later arrived and so begin the 800 years.
They didn't invade provoked, they were invited over by a power hungry chieftan!

Honorable mention to Leonard McNally, backstabbing lawyer who was a paid informer for the British. Represented 1798 rebels and Robert Emmet and sold his defence brief to the the prosecution. So sending men to the gallows

scientific1982

Dermot MacMurrough

Cú Giobach

This fella Dermot MacMurrough started of a little bit of trouble, that is still going on.

Edit:
Wow that was some coincidence 3 posts together, seems Dermot isn't the most popular person in history.

stimpson

Pat Kenny for crimes against broadcasting.

Stained Class

bonerm wrote: »

Charley Haughey.

Yep!

Even though it's spelled(slightly) wrong. It should read lying thieving scummer.


Bertie is son of the above.:mad:

puntosporting

Gay byrne thats all folks!

Dr. No

I would have to say Dev. It should have been Dev that was killed rather than Collins.

FouxDaFaFa

Burke and Hare. Two irish lads who headed off to Edinburgh where they killed 17 people and sold their bodies to a lecturer who wanted bodies to dissect for his students. More than a little twisted.

Ali Babba

Lenihan the lying b@stard is working his way up (or down) the ranks too and getting arrogant in true FF style. He's certainly landed us with a nice bill for baling out his buddies in Anglo. Check out www.rate-your-solicitor.com/index.php?name=brian+lenihan&county=&section=search

Absurdum

Louis Walsh

Stained Class

puntosporting wrote: »

Gay byrne thats all folks!

Nah, Gaybo's alright....

Larry Dunne for introducing Heroin to Ireland would be a better bet.

daddydick

Sean Fitzpatrick

shane1992

Charlie McCreevy

bonerm

Stained Class wrote: »

Yep!

Even though it's spelled(slightly) wrong. It should read lying thieving scummer.


Bertie is son of the above.:mad:

Yep, realised soon after that it should have been Charlie. Still at least I got the 'C' right.

Diddler1977

donfers wrote: »

so he gets my vote, how about you?

Bertie Ahern

Daroxtar

FTW

Sardonicat

Mary Harney

Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce

Trevor451

Hitler :pac:

humberklog

Robert Ballagh.

kev9100

Eamonn de Valera. The damage him and his party did to this country is extraordinary.

Absurdum

in all seriousness, I'd say that Bishop McQuaid chap, he was a tyrant and the amount of lives he destroyed and was responsible for destroying make recessions look like picnics

evil

bastard

Darksaga87

Top cat.

Pandoras Twist

Bertie Ahern

or

Kathrine Lynch

Stained Class

kev9100 wrote: »

Eamonn de Valera. The damage him and his party did to this country is extraordinary.

Weeeelllll.... that's a bit untrue.

In the old days FF had some good people in in it. Lemass being a good example.

Umm....other than that,Yeah, I completly agree with you.:)

krudler

The leprechaun in the Leprechaun movies.

The_Minister

After Dermot MacMurrough has been named, I'm not sure how anyone can say Bertie with a straight face.

This thread is about the worst in history - not a list of people we don't like.

Bertie doesn't come close to making the cut.

Stained Class

Trevor451 wrote: »

Hitler :pac:

Not just there for the Nazi things in life...:pac:

Pandoras Twist

To be fair, the actions of someone 800 years ago, cannot be blamed entirely for the consequences which were perpetuated by thousands of people throughout the years. It's hardly as if he knew what was going to happen.

Bertie Ahern had responsibility for millions of people and was aware, or at least should have been aware of the immediate consequences of his actions. And as for the lack of regard shown for his position by appearing in that ad... insult to injury doesn't even cover it

Fremen

Liam Keane.

Reading over the thread, he's not the worst in history. On the other hand, he's an unrepentant murderer who tried to pervert the course of justice.

Fratton Fred

Michael O'Dwyer wasn't a particularly nice chap.

Urdam Singh took his time, but got his revenge eventually.

Son Of A Vidic

Éamon de Valera a traitorous bast@rd who always seemed to be away 'fund raising' when the real fighting had to be done. Then he hands the poisoned chalice of the treaty negotiations to a Military man - Collins. At least if he had joined Collins, it might have prevented the major schism that opened up.

Joeyjoejoe83

Terry wogan, goes to UK, becomes successful, then mocks Ireland all the time,forgetting were he came from. Graham Norton starting to do the same.

shofukan

Adolf Hitler's little known cousin from Kerry, Seamus Hitler :P

bobblepuzzle

donfers wrote: »

Worst Irish person in history

That would be me... sorry guys :pac:

Fremen

Has Ryan Tubirdy not got a mention yet?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

feelingstressed wrote: »

Dermot MacMurrough, greatest traitor in Irish history

He was ousted as King of Leinster and invited over Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, better known as Strongbow over for military help.
Henry II later arrived and so begin the 800 years.
They didn't invade provoked, they were invited over by a power hungry chieftan!

In fairness its quite probable the Catholic Church had been pushing for that one for a while.

mikemac

An English Pope pushing for King Henry II to take control of Ireland

That isn't religion, that's warmongering (if that's a word?) from a Pope. :mad:
Yeah, some man of God there!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I'll always found it quite telling that Laudebiliter was never mentioned in any history class I ever attended. Irish people don't seem to want to acknowledge it.

mikemac

I'd never even heard of it!
It was certainly never mentioned to me in school.

Reading with interest, thanks for posting it

Though I had heard of the better known fact that the Pope at the time supported William of Orange over Catholic King James. Which surprised me greatly at first I have to say