Have you ever met a non-Irish celebrity?

I had breakfast right next to Jake Gyllenhaal on a bench seat in the Abu Dhabi airport hotel

Various US and UK musicians and actors through a previous job. Ed Sheeran and The Rock probably the most famous from those categories.

Outside of work, a bunch of people famous in a very specific strand of dance music over the years (Mauro Picotto, Paul van Dyk probably the biggest there)

This is meeting as in talking to them at least briefly; but bugger all more than that in all bar one of those cases.

Oops Paul McGrath is Irish, I apologise. .

Tom Araya and Kerry King of Slayer called me over one night years ago as I walked past the Gresham hotel. Tom was dead sound, just wanted to chat. Kerry was more stand-offish.

Donald Trumps daughter in a bar , seemed sound though shadowed by bodyguards . I met the doll who blew Clinton and the actress from the Bourne films . Also Robert DeNiro . All in New York

Wife rang me from B&Q Limerick - said 'that comedian you love is here'… I was headed to pick her up… so as I walked by the exit out came Peter Kay (who has a holiday home in nearby Killaloe Co. Clare). He was with his young son and had the body language of someone who didn't want to be disturbed - so I didn't.

Would love to have said hello and had a quick chat/joke with him (I'm in my mid 40's so I'd have preferred that to a selfie or autograph).

I was going to hit him with one of his own jokes… "Excuse me sir, am I going the right way?"

So no, I haven't meet a non Irish celeb. LOL

should have added "back in the day"

Tiffany doesn't count

Where did you meet him. Apparently he was a little cold and flat our refused to sign autographs.

met alex higgins when in his prime,asked for an autograph,he looked me up and down like i was trash and turned away,proper arse hole

Got seated close to Flo Rida, flash in the pan pop/rap singer, on a flight to Belgium one time. No craic at all, kept denying he was famous at all until my friend brought out his Ipod Touch Mk1 with the album cover from Flo Ridas first cd showing.

Met most of the main cast from the film Human Traffic in a club in New York, they were out after the film premier. Chatted to three of them, but as we'd all been partying for a while at that stage, not sure what we talked about! All dead sound.

Spoke to Henry Rollins very briefly in the mid 90s when I was a teenager, he's an absolute gentleman. He also replied to my emails a few years ago.

Talked to Miles Hunt of the Wonder Stuff after a gig (years after Dizzy was number one!), and ended up going drinking with him and one of the guys from Republica and their friends. Good craic.

Noticed we were sitting beside Johnny Vegas in a pub, we asked could we disturb his reading of the newspaper to talk to him - he was really nice and chatty.

(I've also talked to Irish musicians and actors - I'd never ask for a photo or autograph, but I'll always go up to someone I like/admire unless they look really busy. None of them arseholes!)

Joe Elliott. Lead singer of Deaf Leppard. Meet him in pub in Dublin a few years ago. Very nice guy.

Met George Takei, lovely block.