Did any famous people attend your school?

DiscoBiscuits

Michael Fassbender repeated his leaving cert in my school! A lot of footballers went as well!

Ben D Bus

Noel Curran - RTE DG
Richard Curran - Sunday Business Post & Prime Time regular
Gerry Murphy - Weatherman

and in primary school Ardal O'Hanlon

All at the same time as me but I don't remember Ardal.

cyrusdvirus

Trevor Brennan of Toulouse, Leinster and Ireland rugby, 2 years ahead of me.

David Geraghty of Bell X1 was in my year.

Not at all sure of anyone else.

Apart from Terry. Of Boards.

Domitius Felix Invictus Aurelianus

Cicero

Fran1985

your man/woman who does telly bingo

Also the Brogans (dub footballers). Few others but cant remember

Rastapitts

Damien Duff

Poxyshamrock

JP McManus
Karl Spain
Ciarán MacMathúna

Abi

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Bertie (seriously)

Cecelia and Georgina went to my school. They were in the years above and below me.

Joey the lips

Ian robertson.....Dublin Player.

John Lyons(Current labour councillor :rolleyes:)

Few others but cant think of them.

ASOT

Stephen Kelly

Birneybau

I'll just leave this here:

Cearbhall O'Dalaigh - 1928 (President of Ireland)
Liam Cosgrave - 1937 (Taoiseach)
Liam Lawlor TD - 1962
Eric Byrne TD - 1965

Sport
Dr. Kevin O'Flanagan - 1939 (Irish Rugby & Soccer International)
Michael O'Flanagan - ? (Arsenal and Ireland)
[Liam Whelan - 1952 (Member of the Busby Babes - Deceased)
Eddie Jordan - 1966 (Formula 1 Team Owner)
Donnacha O'Dea - 1966 (Swimming & 1998 World Series Poker Champion)
Don Givens - 1967 - (Irish Soccer International)
John Coady - 1978 (Chelsea 1986 - 88)
Andy Reid - 1999 or 2000 (Nottingham Forrest and newest Serior Irish Internationl)

Arts and Entertainment
Noel Purcell
Eamonn Andrews - Sports commentator, TV presenter and 1st Chairman of RTE Authority
Patrick Swift - about 1940 (Artist)
David Kelly - 1948 (O'Reilly the Builder in "Faulty Towers")
Milo O'Shea
Gay Byrne - 1952 (The Late Late Show)
Kieran Hickey - 1953 (Film Director)
Bob Quinn - 1954 (Film Director)
Jim Norton - 1956 (Bishop Brennan from "Fr. Ted")
Eamonn Morrissey - 1961 (Film - Eat the Peach)
Niall Stokes - 1969 (Hot Press Magazine & IRTC)

Literature
James Plunkett Kelly - (c1937 - Strumpet City)
John Connolly - 1984

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iwasonbwh wrote: »

Shay Given is a past student of my school

You forgot Mickey Joe Harte. He's (in)famous too.

EdenHazard

the main guy in scary move 3 was in the elementary shchool i went to in america, he's like 15 years older than me tho

then darren o dea and loads others in my secondary school

skimpydoo

Stuart Townsend was the year behind me and one of Gay Byrnes daughters was in my year.

Groe

David Gillick, the man, the legend. (athlete)

BickNarry

SeaFields wrote: »

Some of these guys did apparently

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

Rochestown college? Niall O' Flaherty went there (as did his brother, who still teaches there.) Think the rest of the band did too. Would have been the mid nineties ish.

oranbhoy67

Birneybau wrote: »

I'll just leave this here:

Politics and Public Administration
Cearbhall O'Dalaigh - 1928 (President of Ireland)
Liam Cosgrave - 1937 (Taoiseach)
Richie Ryan - 1946 (Minister for Finance)
Frank Feely - 1949 (Dublin County Manager)
Dr. Michael Woods TD - 1954
John Swift - 1958 (Irish Ambassador - The Netherlands)
Hugh Swift - 1961 (Irish Ambassador - South Africa)
Liam Lawlor TD - 1962
Eric Byrne TD - 1965
Dermot McCarthy - 1971 (Secretary General to the Government)


Sport
Dr. Kevin O'Flanagan - 1939 (Irish Rugby & Soccer International)
Michael O'Flanagan - ? (Arsenal and Ireland)
Dan Hingerty - 1942 (Irish Rugby International)
Cormac O'Cleirigh - 1944 (Olympic Athlete)
William A. (Billy) Ringrose - 1947 (Irish Army Equestrian)
Liam Whelan - 1952 (Member of the Busby Babes - Deceased)
Tommy Hamilton - 1953 (Shamrock Rovers)
Ollie Byrne - 1962 (Shelbourne F.C.)
Eddie Jordan - 1966 (Formula 1 Team Owner)
Donnacha O'Dea - 1966 (Swimming & 1998 World Series Poker Champion)
Don Givens - 1967 - (Irish Soccer International)
Anton O'Toole - 1969 (Dublin All Ireland Medal Winner '74, '76 and '77)
John Coady - 1978 (Chelsea 1986 - 88)
Andy Reid - 1999 or 2000 (Nottingham Forrest and newest Serior Irish Internationl)
Humphrey Murphy - 1981 - Climbed Mt. Everest in August 2005

Arts and Entertainment
Cecil Sheridan
Noel Purcell
Jack McGowran
Noel Andrews - Sports Commentator
Eamonn Andrews - Sports commentator, TV presenter and 1st Chairman of RTE Authority
Ronnie Thornton - (Sports Commentator)
Liam Brown - (Sports Commentator)
Patrick Swift - about 1940 (Artist)
Anthony Hughes - 1945 (Professor of Music, U.C.D., and composer)
David Kelly - 1948 (O'Reilly the Builder in "Faulty Towers")
Don Cockburn - 1948 (RTE Newscaster)
Des Hickey - 1948 (Radio Arts programme presenter)
Donal Donnelly - 1949
Milo O'Shea
Gay Byrne - 1952 (The Late Late Show)
Kieran Hickey - 1953 (Film Director)
Brendan O'Brien - 1953 (Leader of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
Bob Quinn - 1954 (Film Director)
Jim Norton - 1956 (Bishop Brennan from "Fr. Ted")
Eamonn Morrissey - 1961 (Film - Eat the Peach)
Niall Stokes - 1969 (Hot Press Magazine & IRTC)
Black Family (The boys obviously)
Fr. Tom Burke 1941 (Co-Founder of Young Scientist of the Year Competition)

Literature
James Plunkett Kelly - (c1937 - Strumpet City)
John Jordan - 1948 (Academic and literary critic)
Cornelius Ryan - (The Longest Day)
John Connolly - 1984

Journalism
Richard Grogan - 1956 (Irish Times Political Editor)
Deaglan deBreadun - 1967 (Irish Times Political Editor)
Pat Courtney - (Irish Independent Sports Editor)
Tony Leen - 1982 (The Examiner Sports Editor)
Martin Wall - 1984 (Sunday Tribune News Editor)

It wouldve been quicker if you just said the 2 famous ones Gaybo & Eddie Jordan

token101

Stephen Ireland.

He left in second/ third year to join Man City. I reckon he just struggled and was released.

The weatherman Gerald Fleming's bro was my 4th/5th/6th class teacher. He has a dead badger stuffed in the classroom clutching a piece of bark. If he caught you swapping Premier League stickers he give them to the badger to hold. He says he found him on a country road (never specifically said if he was alive or dead). He said to a guy acting the fool once that he'd be the next holding the bark if he didn't shut his 'gawbeen mouth'.

mattjack

Birneybau wrote: »

I'll just leave this here:

Politics and Public Administration
Cearbhall O'Dalaigh - 1928 (President of Ireland)
Liam Cosgrave - 1937 (Taoiseach)
Richie Ryan - 1946 (Minister for Finance)
Frank Feely - 1949 (Dublin County Manager)
Dr. Michael Woods TD - 1954
John Swift - 1958 (Irish Ambassador - The Netherlands)
Hugh Swift - 1961 (Irish Ambassador - South Africa)
Liam Lawlor TD - 1962
Eric Byrne TD - 1965
Dermot McCarthy - 1971 (Secretary General to the Government)


Sport
Dr. Kevin O'Flanagan - 1939 (Irish Rugby & Soccer International)
Michael O'Flanagan - ? (Arsenal and Ireland)
Dan Hingerty - 1942 (Irish Rugby International)
Cormac O'Cleirigh - 1944 (Olympic Athlete)
William A. (Billy) Ringrose - 1947 (Irish Army Equestrian)
Liam Whelan - 1952 (Member of the Busby Babes - Deceased)
Tommy Hamilton - 1953 (Shamrock Rovers)
Ollie Byrne - 1962 (Shelbourne F.C.)
Eddie Jordan - 1966 (Formula 1 Team Owner)
Donnacha O'Dea - 1966 (Swimming & 1998 World Series Poker Champion)
Don Givens - 1967 - (Irish Soccer International)
Anton O'Toole - 1969 (Dublin All Ireland Medal Winner '74, '76 and '77)
John Coady - 1978 (Chelsea 1986 - 88)
Andy Reid - 1999 or 2000 (Nottingham Forrest and newest Serior Irish Internationl)
Humphrey Murphy - 1981 - Climbed Mt. Everest in August 2005

Arts and Entertainment
Cecil Sheridan
Noel Purcell
Jack McGowran
Noel Andrews - Sports Commentator
Eamonn Andrews - Sports commentator, TV presenter and 1st Chairman of RTE Authority
Ronnie Thornton - (Sports Commentator)
Liam Brown - (Sports Commentator)
Patrick Swift - about 1940 (Artist)
Anthony Hughes - 1945 (Professor of Music, U.C.D., and composer)
David Kelly - 1948 (O'Reilly the Builder in "Faulty Towers")
Don Cockburn - 1948 (RTE Newscaster)
Des Hickey - 1948 (Radio Arts programme presenter)
Donal Donnelly - 1949
Milo O'Shea
Gay Byrne - 1952 (The Late Late Show)
Kieran Hickey - 1953 (Film Director)
Brendan O'Brien - 1953 (Leader of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
Bob Quinn - 1954 (Film Director)
Jim Norton - 1956 (Bishop Brennan from "Fr. Ted")
Eamonn Morrissey - 1961 (Film - Eat the Peach)
Niall Stokes - 1969 (Hot Press Magazine & IRTC)
Black Family (The boys obviously)
Fr. Tom Burke 1941 (Co-Founder of Young Scientist of the Year Competition)

Literature
James Plunkett Kelly - (c1937 - Strumpet City)
John Jordan - 1948 (Academic and literary critic)
Cornelius Ryan - (The Longest Day)
John Connolly - 1984

Journalism
Richard Grogan - 1956 (Irish Times Political Editor)
Deaglan deBreadun - 1967 (Irish Times Political Editor)
Pat Courtney - (Irish Independent Sports Editor)
Tony Leen - 1982 (The Examiner Sports Editor)
Martin Wall - 1984 (Sunday Tribune News Editor)

You must feel ****e being so ordinary.

Brendog

Bertie....:o

The principal at the time was constantly praising him, telling us how we too can become as successful.

Then all this business of recieving money happened and he quickly shut up.:D

jack presley

Brendog wrote: »

Bertie....:o

The principal at the time was constantly praising him, telling us how we too can become as successful.

Then all this business of recieving money happened and he quickly shut up.:D

If you went to Aidan's then you could also add Liam Brady although he got kicked out for playing foreign games

seanybiker

MitchKoobski wrote: »

De La Salle!

I remember we had to sneak him in the window for awards photos after all the students were waiting inside the doors for him.

I'd suggest John Mullane too but he's a different sort of famous.

haha nice one.

Dont mind that mullane fella, he's a prick.

Trader1991

enda kenny

Batsy

Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox, a Bolton girl, went to the same primary school as me. Masefield County Primary.

Between 1999 and 2001 Sajid Mahmood, the Lancashire and England cricketer, went to the same college as me - Bolton Sixth Form College - and attended the same geology classes as me.

Other famous Boltonians include Peter Kay; 1966 World Cup winner Alan Ball; Vernon Kay; Downton Abbey's Amy Nuttall; former footballer Paul Mariner; Stoke City footballer Carlo Nash; the late former Bolton Wanderers star Nat Lofthouse; boxer Amir Khan (Sajid Mahmood's cousin); comedian Paddy McGuinness; Radio 1 DJ Mark Radcliffe; comedian dave Spikey; and the gorgeous blonde actress Sammy Winward, who plays Kate Sudgen in Emmerdale.

I'm not sure how many of them, if any, went to any of my old schools.

Teyla Emmagan

Ronan Leonard wrote: »

... one of Gay Byrnes daughters was in my year.

Ah here...

Radharc na Sleibhte

Famous or infamous?

Either way, Westlife!

El Horseboxo

A few baseball, basketball and American football players throughout the years in my first high school. Most notable person was Dennis Rader. Otherwise known as the BTK killer. When I moved states I went to the school that Bob Dylan went to.

Spread

Barney Curley. There were one or two others but this colourful character took (and keeps taking) the biscuit. Go Barney Go!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Barney-Curley/110356499015647?sk=wiki

Brendan97

iwasonbwh wrote: »

Shay Given is a past student of my school

nice

born2bwild

Bernard Dunne

Roy Keane

darkdubh

No famous pupils but Pat Spillane was my PE and geography teacher.

Dutchie

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.

and don't forget Tony 'Mushy' Buckley

shanemasseyman

Anglo Irish bank idiot David drum attended my old school, Skerries community collage. he was in the same year as my dad.
Funnest bit is that the vice princeable thought him accounting, i always slagged her over that when she was giving out to me. :D

bobbysands81

Birneybau wrote: »

I'll just leave this here:

Cearbhall O'Dalaigh - 1928 (President of Ireland)
Liam Cosgrave - 1937 (Taoiseach)
Liam Lawlor TD - 1962
Eric Byrne TD - 1965

Sport
Dr. Kevin O'Flanagan - 1939 (Irish Rugby & Soccer International)
Michael O'Flanagan - ? (Arsenal and Ireland)
[Liam Whelan - 1952 (Member of the Busby Babes - Deceased)
Eddie Jordan - 1966 (Formula 1 Team Owner)
Donnacha O'Dea - 1966 (Swimming & 1998 World Series Poker Champion)
Don Givens - 1967 - (Irish Soccer International)
John Coady - 1978 (Chelsea 1986 - 88)
Andy Reid - 1999 or 2000 (Nottingham Forrest and newest Serior Irish Internationl)

Arts and Entertainment
Noel Purcell
Eamonn Andrews - Sports commentator, TV presenter and 1st Chairman of RTE Authority
Patrick Swift - about 1940 (Artist)
David Kelly - 1948 (O'Reilly the Builder in "Faulty Towers")
Milo O'Shea
Gay Byrne - 1952 (The Late Late Show)
Kieran Hickey - 1953 (Film Director)
Bob Quinn - 1954 (Film Director)
Jim Norton - 1956 (Bishop Brennan from "Fr. Ted")
Eamonn Morrissey - 1961 (Film - Eat the Peach)
Niall Stokes - 1969 (Hot Press Magazine & IRTC)

Literature
James Plunkett Kelly - (c1937 - Strumpet City)
John Connolly - 1984

Has to be Synge Street.

Corruptedmorals

Nope, not one. Good old local community school.

However Rozabeez did and we had the best laugh in school.:D

AidySevenfold

Shay Given


Apparently he couldn't get a game for the school team! haha

Love2love

Willie and Patrick Pearse, P.V. Doyle, Ray Tracey, John Carey, Cyril Cusack and drumroll please......... Ken Doherty!

Actually pathetic compared to some other posters. I'm not entirely sure who some of them are!

wendell borton

shanemasseyman wrote: »

Anglo Irish bank idiot David drum attended my old school, Skerries community collage. he was in the same year as my dad.
Funnest bit is that the vice princeable thought him accounting, i always slagged her over that when she was giving out to me. :D

Maybe if he went to a college things might have turned out better.

Lash_Alert

Conchir wrote: »

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

Nicky Byrne went to my Primary.

Do tell?

Niall558

Trevor Brennan (Rugby player)

and

David Geraghty (Bell X1)

Sindri

Dutchie wrote: »

and don't forget Tony 'Mushy' Buckley

Ya...



No thanks.

KittyeeTrix

Not myself but a very good friend was in school with Scarlett Johansson.....

tbh

O'Connells had more past pupils among the 1916 rebels than any other school. We had a museum in the school that had tonnes of artifacts from the time including many letters written by rebels to their nearest and dearest the night before their execution

Vicxas

Blaithnaid Ni Chofiagh went to my school.... what a claim to fame....

franciebellew

Neven Finegan. The ginger painter tosspot in the kit Kat add

deman

John Doe1 wrote: »

We only had one guy really, his surname is quite humourous

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

I think you and I went to the same school.

born2bwild

James T Kirk wrote: »

I went to school with Jesus and Hitler.

They were always fighting in the school yard at lunchtime. :rolleyes:

Did you graduate from the Starfleet Academy the same year as Pavel Chekov?

Mance Rayder

Went to Belcamp college. Past pupils include golf player Philip Walton, and GAA star Frank Cummins. Actor Brendan Gleeson of Harry Potter and Braveheart fame was a teacher there.

Several Major movie scenes were also shot there. I got to meet Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorintino there. Lovely school until Sc*mbags burned it down.

stanley1

Gabriel Byrne (Drimnagh Castle)

jayteecork

Donners O'Callaghan, Donal Lenihan, Tomas O'Leary, all those rugger buggers.
Not sure if you'd call them famous though.