Did any famous people attend your school?

alwaysadub

Jason Byrne, the comedian.
Think he's the only one.

Witchie

irishejit wrote: »

There's a few from my old school-

Henry Francis Lyte - wrote Abide With Me
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Beckett
and Neil Hannon of Divince Comedy fame!

You went to Pretoria? Nice!

My school has churned out a few actresses: Siobhan McKenna, Aoibhinn McGinnity (Love/Hate and trivia), Charlene McKenna (Raw, Pure Mule etc) and think Catriona Balfe went there too (Ireland's only supermodel now turned actress).

DEFTLEFTHAND

no1beemerfan wrote: »

My history teacher played on the famous Munster team that beat the All Blacks.

You hardly went to the tech in Roscrea Co Tipp did you? I remember Seamus Dennison used to teach history there.

stovelid

I think Robbie Keane and Richard Dunne went to mine. So I'm told.

Paparazzo

later10 wrote: »

Janey mack. Imagine that reunion.

Is that Synge Street?

No, O'Connells.
Ronnie Delaney went there too.
And if you're into GAA, Micheal O Hehir went there and Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh taught there.

Tefral

Paul O'Connell (Rugby)
Pat Cox (MEP)
Sam Lynch (olympian)

Tim the Enchanter

kfallon wrote: »

Forgot Jim Beglin too :rolleyes:

And I don't think Keith Barry attended there!

And don't forget Chris Doran.He went to De La Salle. How could you forget Chris.:rolleyes:

4zn76tysfajdxp

Grainne Seoige and the other, less famous Seoige went to my school. About ten years before I was there though.

Conchir

Roddy Doyle and Ronan Keating. Not one of the old teachers hold ol' Ronan in very high esteem.

Nicky Byrne went to my Primary.

GLaDOS

Actually my maths teacher was Aidan Lynch of LOI fame

Lapin

Winston Churchill, Robert Peel, James Blunt, King Hussein of Jordan, John McCririck, The Duke of Westminster, a few more prime ministers and princes and eh..... Witnail.

elPadrino

Roddy Doyle
Ronan Keating:mad:

leviathon

SeaFields wrote: »

Some of these guys did apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM

Same as above - Niall O' Flaherty went to mine

mattjack

Ian Wiley.

guinang

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Actually my maths teacher was Aidan Lynch of LOI fame

I was in the same school as you fella, though definitely not at the same time. Aidan Lynch was a year ahead of me when i was there. His brother is a pretty good footie player too - spent a while at Leeds, and then back to Bohs. Not sure what was in between or after for him though.

By the way, how did you forget Liam Brady, but remember Bertie. The shame.

seamus

It's a big rugby school, so there's a long list of rugby players. But having never had any interest in rugby, I've never heard of any of them, except the one muppet who was in my year.

The best-known alumni are probably Dave Allen (comedian), The Coronas, Mike Murphy and Peter Lawrie.

No super-famous people and nobody notable really except for the above 4. Even the Coronas just barely make it into the "notable" category.

bop1977

I was in school with Emma Byrne. Ireland and Aresnal's goalkeeper.

http://www.nigoalkeeping.com/images/EmmaByrne1w.jpg

mattjack

bop1977 wrote: »

i was in School with Emma byrne. ireland and aresnal's womens soccer goalkeeper.

http://www.nigoalkeeping.com/images/EmmaByrne1w.jpg

Jumpin' Jebus :eek:

ejmaztec

too much information.:P

GLaDOS

guinang wrote: »

By the way, how did you forget Liam Brady, but remember Bertie. The shame.

I remember him giving some talk at the school but couldn't reember if he'd actually been to the school or was just some random guest

BigCon

Jazz Duro was in my class.

May be NSFW

KTRIC

Sindri wrote: »

Ahh yes, the infamous KTRIC. Famous for his short but provocative and sensationalist posts.

I'm female :rolleyes:

John Doe1

irishejit wrote: »

There's a few from my old school-

Henry Francis Lyte - wrote Abide With Me
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Beckett
and Neil Hannon of Divince Comedy fame!

Aw Royal School Portora, I went to a sister school The Royal and Prior in Raphoe, God save the queen:D

no1beemerfan

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

You hardly went to the tech in Roscrea Co Tipp did you? I remember Seamus Dennison used to teach history there.

Yup I did. Would go back in a heart beat, loved it!

ciarang85

starbelgrade wrote: »

The ones I remember from school were:

Aidan Gillen (Actor from The Wire, Love/Hate)
Kenny Cunningham (former Ireland international footballer)
Dessie Farrell (Chief Executive of the GAA & former Dublin GAA player)
Jason Sherlock (former Dublin GAA player)

I knew them all from playing football with them, with the exception of Gillen.

Eamon Coghlan (former athlete) & Ronan Collins (RTE) also attended my school, but a good bit before my time.

Stephen Cluxton is a teacher there aswell

ManofStraw

Sindri wrote: »

No one famous went to my school.







Except Christy MOORE!!! Jamie Heaslip, Geordan Murphy, Geordan Murphy's nephew, Fionn Carr, Bernard Jackman and myself who one day will be famous.

You forgot Tony Buckley and Fergal Quinn (founded Superquinn)

neil_hosey

Bertie went to my school the cúnt... and writer Michael Nugent, Dublin gaelic footballers Tommy Drumm, Paul Clarke, Dave Synnott, Paddy Christie and Paddy Moran, Olympians Owen Casey (tennis) Paul Ward (cycling) and Niall Bruton (athletics) and former Republic of Ireland footballers Liam Brady and Mark Kinsella and David Brophy, Principal Conductor of the RTE Concert Orchestra.

(copy pasta).

stimpson

neil_hosey wrote: »

Bertie went to my school the cúnt... and writer Michael Nugent, Dublin gaelic footballers Tommy Drumm, Paul Clarke, Dave Synnott, Paddy Christie and Paddy Moran, Olympians Owen Casey (tennis) Paul Ward (cycling) and Niall Bruton (athletics) and former Republic of Ireland footballers Liam Brady and Mark Kinsella and David Brophy, Principal Conductor of the RTE Concert Orchestra.

(copy pasta).

Do Aidan's actually call Bertie a cúnt on the website? I didn't know Michael Nugent was an Aidan's lad. I hope the brothers are proud about producing the Irish Dawkins. I was in Kinsellas class and I remember Niall Bruton too.

Oh, Tommy Broughan TD(who recently got the heave from the Labour Party over voting against the budget) was a teacher. And I believe the Art teacher in my day was a prominent Republican.

Tar.Aldarion

just westlife, so nobody really.

policarp

President M.D. Higgins.

cocoshovel

All those Kilkenny hurlers. Ill let you in on a little secret, they're all inbred useless knacker fools.

kfallon

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

And don't forget Chris Doran.He went to De La Salle. How could you forget Chris.:rolleyes:

The title said 'Famous'

Teyla Emmagan

Michael Duignan!!

And THAT'S IT.

amacachi

Steve Staunton. Booya.

admiralofthefleet

that unfunny cunt of a comedian off the panel. cant think of the twat's name

irishejit

Conall Cernach wrote: »

That's that big posh place in Enniskillen isn't it?

You're half right! It's in Enniskillen but with pupils like me in attendance posh wouldn't be a word you'd normally associate with it!!

Guill

Brian Cowen,
Shane Lowry.

Oscars Well.

Shane Horgan and Niall Ronan (Rugby players)

smash

Dermot Morgan was a teacher at my school before he was Father Ted.

swiftblade

I don't know if you would call him famous, but John Moore went to mine.

mfceiling

Darren Clarke -golf

Paddy johns - rugby

chirogirl

Paul Scholes -Man Utd, was a year below me at secondary school.

Sunnyisland

Have checked and checked and checked, not 1 famous person from my school.

Chavways

busyliving wrote: »

Eamon De Valera tried to attend my school, but he didn't get in...

But quiet a few Irish international rugby players, such as Keith Wood, Keith Earls, Colm Tucker...

Other than rugby I don't think anyone famous came out of my school

John Gormley,Eamon Casey the disgraced bishop,Neil Cusack the marathon runner,Fergal Lawlor from the Cranberries and as you said half of the Irish rugby team also went to your school.

Napper Hawkins

James Joyce.

Terry Wogan.

Tony O'Reilly (Heinz Beans)

Ollie Campbell (Irish rugby international)

Mark Greaney and Feargal Mathews from JJ72.

Tim-Pat Coogan.

Ian Dempsey.

Cathal Brugha.

Kevin Barry.

Richard Bruton.

Garret Fitzgerald.

Brian Lenihan.

kleefarr

Notable and a few famous ones...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_College

Notable Old Campbellians

See also Old Campbellians.

Dudi Appleton, director, screenwriter and journalist
Paul Bew, scholar and life peer
Derek Bell, harpist, late member of The Chieftains
Andrew Bree, swimmer
Gordon Burns, journalist and television presenter
Sir Anthony Campbell, retired judge
Ben Clarke, The Apprentice candidate in 2009
Sir John Collins, businessman
David Crawford Librarian
Freeman Wills Crofts, author; was a member of the school's first class in 1894
George Currie, British Member of Parliament
Eric Robertson Dodds, classical scholar
William John English, Victoria Cross recipient whose medal was bequeathed to the school
Thomas Henry Flewett, virologist
Mike Gibson (rugby player)
Paddy Hirsch, journalist, award-winning Marketplace radio producer and presenter
Michael Hoey (golfer)
John Irvine, award-winning ITV News journalist
Charles Lawson, actor
Gary Lightbody, vocalist and guitarist in Snow Patrol
William MacQuitty, film producer
James Godfrey MacManaway, MP and Church of Ireland minister
Tim Martin, founder and current Chairman of JD Wetherspoon
Sir John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Alan McFarland, former British Army officer and Ulster Unionist politician
Sir Percy McElwaine, barrister and Attorney General of Fiji
Colonel Sir Michael McCorkell - Northern Irish soldier
Alan McKibbin, British Member of Parliament
John Morrow, peace activist
Jonny Quinn, drummer in Snow Patrol
Robert Shanks, former Chairman of the Commissioners of Irish Lights and commanding officer of HMS Caroline
James Simmons, poet
Air Chief Marshal John Thomson, RAF officer
Lloyd Hall-Thompson, British Member of Parliament
Noel Thompson, BBC journalist
Chris Farrell, rugby union footballer for Ulster U18s, Ulster U20s, Ulster and Ireland U18s
Jamie Smith, rugby union footballer for Ulster
Hong-Wing Yeung, Businessman
Paddy Wallace, rugby union footballer for Ireland
Edmund De Wind, Victoria Cross recipient

saywhatyousee

3 Members of westlife
John Mc Cormack(famous tenor)
Albert Reynolds(Taoiseach)
Ray Mac Sharry(Tanaiste and Mep)

karaokeman

In secondary school;

Bell X1
Damien Rice

In college as far as I know;

Eammon de Valera
John Hume

not sure who else just yet.....

Fart

Stephen Roche.

rainyrun

Paul Williams (crime writer) went to my school, he was a few years ahead of me.
i know there were at least 2 past pupils that took part in the olympics.. dont know if they are famous though!
cant think of anyone else!