Any experiences with Irish "celebrities" ?

Met Shane Filan in the centra in Carraroe. He was standing in line at the til and struck up a conversation with me and seemed nice.

I was oblivious as to who it was, thought he was a bit strange to talk to me and I figured I must have known him from a DOE test I had done.

It was only when I got outside and saw the Porsche SGF911 that I figure out who it was 😂

Michael D’Higgins was a tear as a teen. Came from money and made sure we knew it. Met him and the wife at a reunion and witnessed her drinking issues first hand which was wild for a woman of her age at the time. We still can’t believe how Michael represents us on the international stage knowing him growing up. Did very well though so im a tad jealous. Wife’s a nutter though so I’ve won that battle and the height battle.

Jerry Fish, singer - dead sound, nice guy

Jack L, singer - obnoxious

Brian Kennedy, singer - very pleasant

Fred Cooke, comedian - asshole

Gerry Fleming, weatherman - gentleman

Ray D'Arcy - pompous but nice

KC, formerly TodayFM - sound

Keith Barry - knobby but polite

Marty Whelan - sound

Worked in NYC, myself and 3 other lads went into a Deli to buy lunch. We were all working construction so covered in dust with big boots on etc. Standing at the counter was Gabriel Byrne, one of our group said hello to him and he stopped and had a brief chat with us. He seemed genuinely delighted to meet us, asked us all individually where in Ireland we were from, how long we'd been in the US etc. A genuine, down to earth warm and friendly guy.

Oh and met Jason Byrne in a place I worked here in Ireland, came across as a gobshite. Trying to be funny all the time, an act, very false. He's about as funny as finding a lump on your testicle in the shower.

Met Harry Crosbie once, he actually initiated a conversation with me, he was really nice, also have spoken to Bressie, a real gentleman too

Met Robert Sheehan in a be in Canada. Nice guy, had a chat with us for 10 minutes or so, joined in our round and got us one back.

Just on the GAA guy - did he say what county he was involved with?

there’s a number of suspects in my mind - one guy in particular, hurling manager who has done the rounds of a few county’s. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

Paddy Keenan, the uilleann piper. Met him twice in a short space of time circa mid 90s and he was an utter pr!ck on each occasion.

Not denying your post but wasn’t MDH apparently raised in a poor background by his aunt or something.

Dragging bags & baggage & children acrosss the airport in Shannon one snowy Xmas. Des Bishop volunteered to help, chatted away & helped with the bags. A gentleman

He came into an old work place of mine once. Seemed pretty normal and friendly. He's also way, way taller and bigger than you'd think.

Also met Tommy Tiernan in the same place. Initially he was grinning at me because of my confused "Wait... I know you!" face when he walked up to me but after I got over that he was very softly spoken and polite. Weird to say but the overall vibe I got off him was sadness.

As I said, met both of those in work and was trying to be professional so I wouldn't read too much into their personalities from these interactions, short as they were.

Also met Eddie O'Sullivan, same place. He was grand too but was barely talking to him.

I don't think I've ever met an Irish celebrity. I saw Dave McSavage in the international once. Small venue so I was pretty close. He spent a lot of the time picking on some poor girl in the front with sex jokes. I could see her face. She was very uncomfortable, not in the funny type of uncomfortable but genuinely upset. He just kept going with it.

Him and his husband didn't bus their own tray in Ikea....true story

Dream 🤣🤣 meeting some Irish D-Listers haha

Worked in a hotel that regularly had 'famous' Irish acts playing, such as the aforementioned Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, Jack L, Bell X1, Bryan Kennedy, Aslan etc. Sometimes bigger international acts but still washed up, like Fun Lovin' Criminals, Drifters..

As for the rest on the list, is it really beyond belief somebody could bump into an RTE weatherman, and a few lads from TodayFM??

Thinking a bit more about it.

I met Big Tom once. (Does he count?). Lovely guy. I was working with some special needs people and one was a huge fan. HE drove all the way over just to meet this guy.

I met Donncha O'Dulaing once. Seemed like a nice guy.

Except for that, I haven't really met any celebrities.

Daniel O'Donnell is sound, very dry and funny guy. The wife however...

Niall Quinn, Shane Lowry, Alan Kelly (the goalkeeper), all great and friendly for a chat, no airs or graces about them

Brian O'Driscoll though, biggest tosser I've ever had the pleasure of meeting/serving, surprised his head fit in the door.

He's been doing that for years on Grafton street and temple bar. The more uncomfortable he made people feel, the better it was for his routine.

And these were just random people trying to go about their daily lives, not paying fans who knew signed up to be there..

What was the likes of you doing in BT?

Met Tommy fleming once, very nice guy and seemed like great craic, his music wouldn't be for me but such a nice guy, gave me a big tip as well.

I know someone who worked in tv, he said Alan Hughes was a bully. I never forgot it, cant stand him, then you see him laughing at everything on Ireland AM every morning, acting like he is such good craic and a nice guy.

Maybe it was juts someone who looks like her. I think it was her though.