What famous Irish person has the most annoying accent?

gourcuff · 03-11-2020 12:01pm

brian odriscoll, that nauseating mid atlantic accent is horrific..

robbie keane wouldnt be a great one either...

Ande1975 · 03-11-2020 12:22pm

Not overly famous but I get into some fceking mood when she comes on telly...

Virgin Media's Zara King.... She's from Waterford isn't she? What the F?

Move to Dublin, develop a tone....jebus

Sgt Hartman · 03-11-2020 12:45pm

There's this girl that regularly does voiceovers for Irish ads who speaks with a very soft, childlike D4 accent. It does my nut in when I hear it.

partyguinness · 03-11-2020 12:48pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Shane Ross. Youd say something if he sounded posh Dublin but he literally has an English accent.

Is he not English? I always assumed he was English.

ps- Jesus Christ...I have just Googled him. He has no connections with England so where the eff did the English accent come from?

breezy1985 · 03-11-2020 12:57pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

That's pure limerick citay, boi

Firstly we say kid not boi and blindboys accent is fake. No one from his part of Limerick talk like that he is appropriating a working class accent.

I don't mind it as long as he keeps it to the comedy character but if your gonna get political show your real face and voice.

Miriam, D. Gavin, Rachel Allen and any of the forced over the top Kerry or north Dub accents drive me nuts.

Marty's accent might be odd but at least it's actually Marty's accent

Bob Harris · 03-11-2020 12:59pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Is he not English? I always assumed he was English.

ps- Jesus Christ...I have just Googled him. He has no connections with England so where the eff did the English accent come from?

Practice.

breezy1985 · 03-11-2020 1:08pm

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Are u sure it wasn't a big shopping centre in Ballymena hai?

Or the Limavady leisure centre ?

gourcuff · 03-11-2020 5:02pm

shane ross isnt english? wtf? no connection? how is that possible? i was sure he was some anglo-irish relic from a big house, patron of the local cricket and rugby team, protestant middle class etc...

breezy1985 · 03-11-2020 5:20pm

gourcuff wrote: »

shane ross isnt english? wtf? no connection? how is that possible? i was sure he was some anglo-irish relic from a big house, patron of the local cricket and rugby team, protestant middle class etc...

Just wishes he was. He was from a big house though was it not the one used in "Normal People"

Persiancowboy · 03-11-2020 5:26pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Firstly we say kid not boi and blindboys accent is fake. No one from his part of Limerick talk like that he is appropriating a working class accent.

Hard to beat a more irritating voice than on that gob****e reporter on RTE News Philip Bromwell.....a West Brit to the hilt.

Hamsterchops · 03-11-2020 5:34pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Is he not English? I always assumed he was English.

ps- Jesus Christ...I have just Googled him. He has no connections with England so where the eff did the English accent come from?

Went to school and then to Uni in England, didn't he?

trashcan · 03-11-2020 11:08pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Julian whatshisname, the continuity ITV announcer

Is he still alive ? Haven’t set eyes on him since they took UTV off ( one good thing to come out of it).

Quantum Erasure · 04-11-2020 1:56am

trashcan wrote: »

Is he still alive ? Haven’t set eyes on him since they took UTV off ( one good thing to come out of it).

Tbh I thought I heard he died a few years ago, butwikipedia has him as very much alive
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simmons

DilD · 04-11-2020 10:45pm

Surely already said in here, got to be Dáithí Ó Sé...

JasonStatham · 04-11-2020 11:07pm

The guys who founded stripe. Really fake sounding american accent. Wtf

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 05-11-2020 6:40am

Mysterypunter wrote: »

michael mcmullen

Would you believe me if I said that he's from Antrim?!?!

Mysterypunter · 05-11-2020 8:05am

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

Would you believe me if I said that he's from Antrim?!?!

Amazed at that, I thought he was a Dublin 4 rugby Ross O'Carroll Kelly type, that makes it worse, if that was possible.

46 Long · 05-11-2020 8:42am

Omackeral wrote: »

Mentioned him before but the poor old sod who does the traffic on DublinCityFM. He can’t pronounce his R’s whatsoever and it’s really grating. I know it’s not his fault but it’s difficult to listen to.

“Wanelagh to Wathmines is weally heavy, backed up to Hawold’s Cwoss”

Paschal Donohoe does that too. Can't take him seriously at all.

pgj2015 · 05-11-2020 12:49pm

Munstergirl854 wrote: »

I was listening to Maura Higgins recently, she seems to speak clearer than her love island days but in fairness that Midlands accent was laid on thick in her early days.
Bit of an english twang I thought too.

is she a traveller?

TinCanMan · 05-11-2020 1:48pm

Al Porter. His whiney voice is equivalent to someone running their nails across a blackboard. Thankfully we don't hear much from him these days.

Oink · 05-11-2020 7:54pm

What - no mention of Mary-Lou yet?
What kind of accent is that anyway? She doesn’t even try to do a “soft Irish T” anymore, now it’s just “sh”. All rye-sh. The fye-sh against injustice. It mye-sh take a long time. Uuurgh

Oink · 05-11-2020 8:10pm

On the other hand, I wish people would leave Britn... uh... Katie Taylor alone. A quiet and humble lady who comes back with a cartload of medals for her country deserves a little better than being mocked for her voice.

CharlesMartel · 05-11-2020 8:10pm

Saoirse Ronans Dub patois

breezy1985 · 05-11-2020 8:50pm

CharlesMartel wrote: »

Saoirse Ronans Dub patois

Sounds like a boards user name

veryangryman · 05-11-2020 10:23pm

Sonia o Sullivan always grinded my gears.

Special mention for any sports person(usually female but there's exceptions) who says "I suppose" 50 times in a 2 minute interview!

My ears!!

Oberkon · 05-11-2020 10:31pm

Not famous of course but well known Lisa Murphy the one Flatley dumped
Actually his accent is desperate too !

Omackeral · 06-11-2020 8:56am

PJ Gallagher. Nasal f*cker. It’s like listening to a really annoying kinda-broken drill.

josip · 06-11-2020 12:41pm

I respectfully propose Joan Burton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCmzvzCmhI

whisky_galore · 06-11-2020 1:11pm

Omackeral wrote: »

PJ Gallagher. Nasal f*cker. It’s like listening to a really annoying kinda-broken drill.

Bordering on junkie-like whine.

dd973 · 06-11-2020 3:19pm

Dara O'Briain, always looks like he's literally eating his accent.

Yeah, we know you're Irish, so are millions of other people, what's your point?

Ronnie Whelan's lived on Merseyside since 1979 or thereabouts, plus it's a place with a very strong accent that isn't miles removed from ours, so I'd cut him a bit of slack there, people's accents can change throughout their lives, more subtly though in later life.

Hangdogroad · 07-11-2020 7:49am

Miriam O Callaghan. Her voice is like nails on a blackboard.

zerosugarbuzz · 07-11-2020 7:54am

No idea what her name is but who ever is the presenter at 9am Saturday morning on newstalk literally gives me the heeby geebies have to turn her straight off.

Asdfgh2020 · 07-11-2020 8:13am

zerosugarbuzz wrote: »

No idea what her name is but who ever is the presenter at 9am Saturday morning on newstalk literally gives me the heeby geebies have to turn her straight off.

The weather lady from the whest who occasionally appears in the lovely ‘gúnaí’ .......can’t of think her name.......she has that real ‘whest of eyr-land’ lilt/intonation

breezy1985 · 07-11-2020 10:38am

Asdfgh2020 wrote: »

The weather lady from the whest who occasionally appears in the lovely ‘gúnaí’ .......can’t of think her name.......she has that real ‘whest of eyr-land’ lilt/intonation

Is that the one with the stupid over the top weather report that went viral ?

Fuascailteoir · 07-11-2020 11:59am

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Another vote for mcgregor.

How is anyone is expected to take that seriously?

The whole tough guy image evaporates as soon as he opens his mouth and that little drone escapes. I remember people saying he had a career ahead of him in hollywood but that was never going to happen with pipsqueak vocal cords

Omackeral · 07-11-2020 12:11pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Is that the one with the stupid over the top weather report that went viral ?

Don't make unnecessary assumptions

Asdfgh2020 · 07-11-2020 3:52pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Don't make unnecessary assumptions

No I think that was the lovely Siobhan Ryan....??

AndyBoBandy · 09-11-2020 10:41am

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Oink · 09-11-2020 7:02pm

I see that Mary-Lou is not listed. Once again the FF-FG old boys’ club have put their own agendas ahead of the need of the workers. Unfortunately we are well used to this appalling something something blah blah etc.

FearanPhoist99 · 21-02-2022 4:15am

Bishop of Meath used to call the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirt. And would go on for ages in this ponderous voice. Confirmations went on for hours.

FearanPhoist99 · 21-02-2022 4:19am

Philip Boucher Hayes sonorous voice on the radio, he constantly sounds smug, he can't help it I guess.

Quantum Erasure · 21-02-2022 5:48am

don't trust the poll results, they didn't survive the migration

although looking at them, maybe they did? who knows...

joseywhales · 21-02-2022 6:56am

The YouTube guy from the midlands. And he says "top of the morning", he has no shame.

Dempo1 · 21-02-2022 7:26am

So many to choose from OP, but I know the list was not meant to be exhaustive.

Joe Duffy ( Inabilty in general pronunciation)

Lord Philip Boucher Hayes (Pompous in over drive)

Miriam "Genuinely" O Callagahan

Leo Varadkar "We're all in this together"

Not So Famous Category (Despite what they think 😁)

Brian Dowling, Ghastly

Martin King,, "Gowanoutofdat"

Vougue Williams

Ronan Keating "Shorry"

Alan Hughes & Karl Broderick (A perfect match made in the world of annoyance)

Eddie Hobbs (I fear he's back 😳)

Ash.J.Williams · 21-02-2022 8:25am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115148422#Comment_115148422

But blindboy is urban

Ash.J.Williams · 21-02-2022 8:28am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115148432#Comment_115148432

the winner , in fact any Protestant golfer that moves to the southern states of America

Dempo1 · 21-02-2022 8:37am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118666175#Comment_118666175

RTE could help us however, put him on berween 2am to 4am weeknights 😁

olestoepoke · 21-02-2022 8:38am

Explain to me how accents are as "important as the clothes we wear in how we attempt to project ourselves to the world". What am I missing here? We choose to buy and wear our clothes, my accent is something I do not think about, I speak a certain way because of my upbringing and groups I identified with. For the most part accents are subconscious so how can they be compared to the clothes we choose to wear?

forestgirl · 21-02-2022 9:48am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115151926#Comment_115151926

Well don't listen then

Cal4567 · 21-02-2022 10:01am

Heather Humphries TD

What famous Irish person has the most annoying accent?

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