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If you could resurrect any Irish person

  • 09-10-2011 1:30am
    #1
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭


    From the the past to be the next Irish president, who would it be?

    Michael Collins for me. Never met the man but I liked what I've read.

    Obviously the Norris vote will pick Oscar Wilde :)


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  • #2
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Me buddy


  • #3
    mickrock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭mickrock


    Joe Dolan.


  • #4
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Dermot Morgan, Ireland needs moar laughs.


  • #5
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,271 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Garret Fitzgerald.


  • #6
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Jimmy O Dea ....Aras would be a barrel of laughs with him in there .


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  • #7
    The Scientician
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    My dad. He'd run the country into the ground but at least he'd be back.


  • #8
    OakeyDokey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭OakeyDokey


    James Joyce


  • #9
    R0ot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    Collins.


  • #10
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Shergar.


  • #11
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Shergar.

    No point Chuck, he'd disappear in the race ;)


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  • #12
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Phil Lynott. (if America has a black president...)


  • #13
    SandraManson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭SandraManson


    Oscar Wilde, of course!


  • #14
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Michael Collins too.


  • #15
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Brian Boru

    Was a Clareman but he ruled from Cashel so Tipperary are claiming him.

    Cashel will be the capital of Ireland once again


  • #16
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Dermot Earley. And make him president straight away, without any election


  • #17
    martic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    St Patrick, he may not have been fully Irish but there's a few snakes in Leinster house and the banks that needs banishing


  • #18
    paulosham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭paulosham


    Dermot Morgan


  • #19
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    spurious wrote: »
    Garret Fitzgerald.

    If Garret Fitzgerald the politician was soup it'd be watery cabbage soup.


  • #20
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    martic wrote: »
    St Patrick, he may not have been fully Irish but there's a few snakes in Leinster house and the banks that needs banishing

    That's for sure :D He'd climb a mountain for Ireland.


  • #21
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    martic wrote: »
    St Patrick, he may not have been fully Irish but there's a few snakes in Leinster house and the banks that needs banishing

    Sounds like something a Dublin taxi man would say... either that or

    "Arr..shure derz a few of dem zombie banks dat ed need a birrov the oul rez-ur-wreckeden, en all - wha?"


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  • #22
    maddragon
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭maddragon


    Gordon Darcy


  • #23
    Full.Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Full.Duck


    That lad who ran through the forest with no shoes and not breaking a twig, and eating the salmon. Fionn McCule? Forget his name.


  • #24
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,153 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Elvis






    If he was dead in the first place......


  • #25
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Rory Gallagher, why is this even up for discussion???


  • #26
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Full.Duck wrote: »
    That lad who ran through the forest with no shoes and not breaking a twig, and eating the salmon. Fionn McCule? Forget his name.

    Louis Walsh you're thinking of..


  • #27
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Mo Mowlam, and offer the job of President


  • #28
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


    This post has been deleted.


  • #29
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Oliver Reed


  • #30
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Rory Gallagher, why is this even up for discussion???

    Because not everyone likes boring blues guitar ****?


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  • #31
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Rory Gallagher, why is this even up for discussion???

    But there'd be no festival in Ballyshannon then! :(


  • #32
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Because not everyone likes ****?

    really?


  • #33
    Kojak
    Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Nobody has mentioned Peig Sayers yet. :eek:

    For shame....


  • #34
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Noël Browne.


  • #35
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    El Siglo wrote: »
    Noël Browne.

    The church would turf him out...oh wait

    I like these times :)


  • #36
    Colilfc
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭Colilfc


    Jimmy Doyle or Mondo from Fair City.


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  • #37
    Full.Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Full.Duck


    Colilfc wrote: »
    Jimmy Doyle or Mondo from Fair City.

    Met mondo. He is a complete tool of the highest order.


  • #38
    Colilfc
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭Colilfc


    Full.Duck wrote: »
    Met mondo. He is a complete tool of the highest order.
    Say so, most of them are alright.


  • #39
    Lash_Alert
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭Lash_Alert


    Gately.


  • #40
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Brendan Smyth - just so you could kill the dirty bastard fúcker again.


  • #41
    3rdDegree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭3rdDegree


    Jesus, would be the number 1.

    But of real interest would be Michael Collins. What would he make of us now? I dont think he'd be impressed with what his old chief and party of self-serving un-democratic clowns have brought us to.


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  • #42
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Phil Lynott.


  • #43
    maygitchell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 843 ✭✭✭maygitchell


    Duncan the builder


  • #44
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Gay Byrne


  • #45
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Definately Michael Collins. Interesting man.


  • #46
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    Elvis Presley.


  • #47
    oneills9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭oneills9


    michael collins no question.


  • #48
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Same answer as I gave last time: Aodh Mór Ó Néill, arguably the most important person in the past one thousand years of Irish history.

    I'd also like to have a chat with Aodh Rua Ó Dónaill, particularly about his escape from Dublin Castle in January 1592, the event which inspired this today, and his journey to Kinsale to meet the Spanish.

    Failing this I'll just have to make do with reading Brian Friel's superb play about both men, Making History (1988) once again.


  • #49
    supersparkz
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭supersparkz


    George best, We could go for a session.


  • #50
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Luke Kelly.


  • #51
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Patrick Cleburne.


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