Worst Irish person in history

Dangerous Man

Bernie Slaven.

Pottler

I'd say John Wayne in "The quiet Man". Brutal accent, stagey acting and totally unconvincing.

gobnaitolunacy

Whoever came up with 'Leave It To Mrs O'Brien', 'The Lyrics Board' and 'Ryantown'.

Pherekydes

Pottler wrote: »

courtesy of "Northsidetranslate". A Pottlermedia service.:-)

That might explain the presence of Ivana Bacik (I presume this is who the OP meant).

halpin17 wrote: »

Roisin shorthall

James Reilly fan, I presume?

Fighting Irish

lol @ people blaming bertie for doing exactly what we wanted at the time (which he did to keep his job)

Pherekydes

Some fairly bizarre nominations there, but no mention of William Joyce?

markesmith

Ridiculous thread is ridiculous. What about Dermot MacMurrough, Boru, even Eoin Duffy?

How could someone like Ivana Bacik be in a poll for 'worst Irish person in history'?

gobnaitolunacy

MacMurrough did what most any other Irish king would have done at the time to rid himself of a 'problem'.

They were a ruthless bunch and Ireland was not a unified nation, just kings kicking the living sh*t out of each other.

Or more accurately, kings getting their armies to kick etc etc

RikkFlair

Who are the 4 people who voted for Diarmuid Gavin? Did he **** in yer gardens or something?

charlemont

Fighting Irish wrote: »

lol @ people blaming bertie for doing exactly what we wanted at the time (which he did to keep his job)

Exactly he was a god like figure to the same people critizising him now. Ye were all warned and ye didn't want to know.


Eamonn DeValera would be amongst the worst Irish person in history to me.

charlemont

Wee Willy Harris wrote: »

Liz Bonnin

Forgot all about her, Sexy out.

Lollipops23

Much as I LOATHE Dana, (and i truly truly do) she's reasonably harmless IMHO. Like, she's a laughing stock to 99% of the Irish public.

Bertie would get my vote; his greed and arrogance (and complete denial of accepting any of his wrongdoing) just ignite a fire inside me every time I see his squashed, smug face. I tend to yell at the screen whenever he pops up on Reeling In The Years.

And before anyone asks, I never voted for him once in my life (or anyone else in FF).

I also think Haughey is one of the worst characters to EVER have come from this counrty; told the country to tighten their belts while he was spending the public finances on silk shirts in Paris. Wanker.

gobnaitolunacy

If Dana had power (or brains) she'd be dangerous.

Gmol

Brendan O Carroll

Seaneh

One of the Earls of Leinster was the richest man in the world and made his money buy selling slaves.

Can't for the life of me remmeber which one for sure but think it was James Fitzgearld, the one who built Leinster House.

Madam

I'm just surprised Daniel O'Donnell hasn't had a mentioned yet:rolleyes:

Fenian Army

Pottler wrote: »

I'd say John Wayne in "The quiet Man". Brutal accent, stagey acting and totally unconvincing.

Eh... whats wrong with his accent?

One of my fave films?

Paddy8612

that was christy dunne mate

DDC1990

Jack Gleeson.

Cúnt killed Ned.

Meritocracy Wins

Camrat.

Hannibal

Michael Collins

Karl Stein

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What? It's me,oh, is there a trophy?

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Festy

Eamon Dunphy by far

Cody Pomeray

Diarmuid Gavin's 4 votes?

Who voted for the most uncontroversial man in Irish gardening?

He's a gardener for Christ's sake... he prunes rose bushes for a living

Show yourselves !

deadeye187

Miley for what he did to Biddy! That Fidelma was easy anyways!

Napper Hawkins

Father Dick Byrne.

Karl Stein

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Diarmuid Gavin's 4 votes?

Read this saccharine tripe by him and you can maybe forgive those voters for choosing him.

TheLastMohican

Dustin

ONeill2013

There's about 50 people in every town you could stick on that list

downonthefarm

tony felloni

thebaz

what did poor Bertie do ? only put a few bob on a horses - in fairness he helped deliver peace on the island - his economic policy , along with Cowen was a ****en disaster , criminal - but , today Fianna Fail top the polls one again - shame on us, a corrupt party since CJ Haughey reign

Stereomaniac

Gay Byrne

Aspiring

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Gay Byrne

Hello *little laugh* (in satanic Gay Byrne voice)

Galwayguy35

Dotsey wrote: »

Michael Collins

Are you serious?

Cody Pomeray

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Dotsey wrote:

Michael Collins

Are you serious?

Meh, it's not like he intended to cause a civil war. But Collins appears to have behaved irresponsibly, and possibly allowed his team of plenipotentiaries to be made subject to British duress during the negotiation stage.

A Civil War was one repercussion of his unfortunate actions. He was out of his depth.

User number 52

Paddy8612 wrote: »

that was christy dunne mate

What was christy dunne?

chuky_r_law

can we add peig sayers to the list?

the feckin moany auld biddy

.jacksparrow.

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Meh, it's not like he intended to cause a civil war. But Collins appears to have behaved irresponsibly, and possibly allowed his team of plenipotentiaries to be made subject to British duress during the negotiation stage.

A Civil War was one repercussion of his unfortunate actions. He was out of his depth.

And he knew this only too well.

.jacksparrow.

Father Paul stone.

Ahh lads, how is Bertie worse than Larry Murphy?!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Why is Roy keane and Bono on the list? Others too I presume that don't belong there.

Most are from very recent days.

What about Dermot McMurragh?

Galwayguy35

Deleted User wrote: »

Ahh lads, how is Bertie worse than Larry Murphy?!

What Larry Murphy did was obviously worse but we aren't paying LM a pension of 150 k a year to sit on his hole.

SV

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

What Larry Murphy did was obviously worse but we aren't paying LM a pension of 150 k a year to sit on his hole.

I would much prefer that than to have a person like Larry Murphy even exist.

Galwayguy35

chuky_r_law wrote: »

can we add peig sayers to the list?

the feckin moany auld biddy

Agree 100%, nobody wanted to know about her miserable life and certainly didn't want to be forced to have to learn about it.

I ofton wonder did the Irish teachers secretly agree that it was depressing muck with no relevence to the modern age.

Galwayguy35

SV wrote: »

I would much prefer that than to have a person like Larry Murphy even exist.

Well unfortunately he does, and he got away with it as well.

SV

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Well unfortunately he does, and he got away with it as well.

Yeah, it really doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Just reinforcing the point that Larry Murphy is clearly a worse person than Bertie Ahern.
but the boards population generally seems to care more about money.

Riddle101

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Meh, it's not like he intended to cause a civil war. But Collins appears to have behaved irresponsibly, and possibly allowed his team of plenipotentiaries to be made subject to British duress during the negotiation stage.

A Civil War was one repercussion of his unfortunate actions. He was out of his depth.

Well if DeValera had went over himself and they had a stronger team representing them, maybe things would be a lot better. Instead he decided to stay back in Ireland while Collins went over(reluctantly) to what was inevitably going to end in tears. But I don't think Collins should be marred, when it was all f*cked up to begin with. It was just very poorly done, he should never have went over with like that.

As for the civil war. I think you'll find, that other people played a role in that, not just Collins. DeValera was out of line, criticizing Collins, then walking out of the Dail when he didn't get his way and of course fanning the flames of hatred and pointing the finger at Collins, who was instrumental in getting us to the negotiations in the first place because of his role in the War for Independance.

BTW, i'm not just pointing the finger at DeValera i'm using him as an example. There are others I could talk about too.

Cody Pomeray

Riddle101 wrote: »

Well if DeValera had went over himself and they had a stronger team representing them, maybe things would be a lot better...what was inevitably going to end in tears

Of course, I'm not necessarily condoning deValera's decision to stay in Ireland.

But no, I don't think it's accurate to say there was an inevitability that the negotiations would end in tears, much less to say it would end in civil war.

In the heat of the moment, in 1923, Collins was forgiven. I wouldn't exactly hold that against anyone who supported him at that time. Today, with the benefit of looking at the negotiations rationally, it's clear that Collins behaved either improperly or irresponsibly.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Of course, I'm not necessarily condoning deValera's decision to stay in Ireland.

But no, I don't think it's accurate to say there was an inevitability that the negotiations would end in tears, much less to say it would end in civil war.

In the heat of the moment, in 1923, Collins was forgiven. I wouldn't exactly hold that against anyone who supported him at that time. Today, with the benefit of looking at the negotiations rationally, it's clear that Collins behaved either improperly or irresponsibly.

How did he behave in such a manner? It was clear before the delegation went over that compromises would have to made, I always felt that Dev didn't go because he knew this and wanted to pass the buck to Collins.

Collins himself from accounts of Birkenhead and Churchill acquitted himself quite well over there, they were impressed by him.