What famous Irish person has the most annoying accent?

Capt. Autumn

I have a thing about accents. I believe they reveal an awful lot about the speaker. Accents are as important as the clothes we wear in how we attempt to project ourselves to the world. Then some people try too hard. They want to sound, cool, posh, intelligent, whatever; but totally over-egg the cake and come across as being fake. So many Irish celebrities fall into this trap.

My top three annoying Irish accents are:

1. Joanne McNally
Oh, dear. The D4 accent on steroids. Seriously annoying and fake as hell.

2. Ronnie Whelan
You're from Finglas. Finglas. A man who must be seriously embarrassed about his Dublin accent to become 100% scouse after playing for Liverpool for 12 years. Fake.

3. Sharon Horgan
An accent that screams, 'Look at me, I'm a trans-continental, successful everywoman..' It's a bit Irish, a bit posh London, a bit Californian. More than a bit fake.

So what are the 'Irish' accents boil your piss?

Gregor Samsa

Bosco.

ThewhiteJesus

Niall Horan

Blindboy Boatclub

Any comedian who does the bogger/exaugurated cultchie accent grinds my gears

Not sure as she's canadian but she's been a fixture on irish radio for the last decade or so, Alison Curtis

intellectual dosser

Graeme McDowell

Feisar

Michael Smith the Bishop of Meath, retired now. God it was a pain in the hole when ye'd be dragged to mass and it was him saying it.

Be right back

Chris O'Dowd.

Saoirse Ronan.

One More Toy

Saoirse Ronan

retalivity

intellectual dosser wrote: »

Graeme McDowell

Graaaaaaaaame micdaaaahhhhhhhllll

Gremlinertia

Bono

pawdee

Sonia O' Sullivan.

biko

That beardy MMA guy.

Skeetur

Katie Taylor

Archeron

Susan Cahill on newstalk.

SmartinMartin

Miriam o fcuking callaghan.

littlevillage

Amy Huberman

Sky King

Saoirse Ronan

Sounds like someone doing an over the top impression of a housewife from the 50s.

Rodney Bathgate

This thread is on dangerous ground. Too many female comediennes / presenters mentioned. Expect an “angry men” rant.

cannotlogin

Rachel Allen because nobody Irish naturally speaks like that.

Chris O'Dowd when he overly hams up the accent when it suits him.

Rodney Bathgate

biko wrote: »

That beardy MMA guy.

McTapper?

Imelda May. Sing, don't talk.

VanHalen

It's gotta be Paschal Donohoe

JimToken

Ronan Keating

JimToken

Marty Morrissey

harry Bailey esq

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

I have a thing about accents. I believe they reveal an awful lot about the speaker. Accents are as important as the clothes we wear in how we attempt to project ourselves to the world. Then some people try too hard. They want to sound, cool, posh, intelligent, whatever; but totally over-egg the cake and come across as being fake. So many Irish celebrities fall into this trap.



2. Ronnie Whelan
You're from Finglas. Finglas. A man who must be seriously embarrassed about his Dublin accent to become 100% scouse after playing for Liverpool for 12 years. Fake.

Jesus... Finglas. You ever been? What a bollix Ronnie is for picking up a twang of Scouse after living and working in Liverpool for 12 years. But some clown goes to for a Oz in his/her early 20s living, socialising and working with other Irish kids for a year has a full blown Aussie accent on return is all 'windswept and interesting'. Billy Connolly ™

the purple tin

Bertie Ahern

Beanntraigheach

Michael D Higgins

FintanMcluskey

Maura ****ing Higgins

percy007

Graham Norton

Chalk McHugh

Brian O Driscoll.

.anon.

All the female ones.

cal naughton

Keith Barry

Blondini

Losshie Ryan

Wherever in Dublin that weird over elaboration of every word thing is from that Keith Andrews and Kenny Cunningham do.

Rodney Bathgate

.anon. wrote: »

All the female ones.

Careful now!

Brian Kerr and his moany voice

For Forks Sake

Graeme McDowell

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For Forks Sake

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Graeme McDowell

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Irish.

Reopen the thread.

COVID

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

I have a thing about accents...

2. Ronnie Whelan
You're from Finglas. Finglas. A man who must be seriously embarrassed about his Dublin accent to become 100% scouse after playing for Liverpool for 12 years. Fake....

...So what are the 'Irish' accents boil your piss?

As a Dubliner born and bred, I can hear far more Dublin than Scouse in Ronnie Whelan's accent.
Btw, he signed for Liverpool in 1979 and played his last game for them in 1994.
I make that 15 years, not 12.

Jan Molby however........

razorblunt

Bit harsh on Ronnie Whelan, the Liverpudlian accent is very strong, he’s been living there for over 40 years a twang was inevitable (he still lives there).



I nominate Nuala Carey, my mother would always go into a rage at her for being more interested in getting the accent right rather than the weather.

Sleeper12

Four pages in & no one mentioned the Healy Rae's???

CiarraiAbu2

I really thought Deidre O Kane would have been the most popular choice.

Jenna James

Chris O'Dowd

cj maxx

Brendan Grace

razorblunt

CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »

I really thought Deidre O Kane would have been the most popular choice.

Great shout. Those radio adverts she did for some appliances crowd were one of the worst things I’ve heard. They’re now gone bust.

gipi

Audrey Carville from RTE

Purple Mountain

Vogue Williams

rachel allen

michael mcmullen

iamwhoiam

Diarmuid Gavin

An accent like no other

Mysterypunter

michael mcmullen[/QUOTE]

Could close it up now, that's the winner, what a clown "oim moichoil mcmullin"

AndyBoBandy

Your man Baz Ashamway, since that new DIY SOS show he’s doing on RTÉ....

Put him on a work site with 30-40 other lads, and suddenly he’s a bit of a Howya!!!! Definitely not as posh as he sounded when he was on Sky...

Also, on DIY SOS he has the cleanest ever pair of work trousers... why does he even wear them as he doesn't lift a finger....