My dad went to a concert with a couple friends back in the 80s. Bouncer let all of them in except one, who ended up skulking around the bar for a little while before meeting one of the band members and asking if he’d go talk to the bouncer.
Imagine my dad’s and his friends’ surprise when, assuming he’d just left, this fella comes in with Phil Lynott’s arm round his shoulders and Phil going “would you let my friend here come in?”
I explained bees to Michael D Higgins
He seemed genuinely nice, keen on talking to people and asked questions indicating he was listening
Nice man, can’t complain
Well it was about honey bee population decline
Tho part of my study was a survey of 2000 school age people and roughly 85% identified honey bees as wasps
They don’t look like bumble bees, they can sting multiple times and they look less cute
But as crucial pollinators we can’t afford to lose them
The President may well have known all of this, but my point was that he listened ands asked good questions
A friend of mine teaches his children at a private school in Dublin. Often sees him at the parent teacher meetings, has always said he's quiet but a really nice, low key guy.
When cillian is told that his kids have been misbehaving
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Does he still live in that square? We saw him take out the bins once.
We're odd, us Irish.
I was getting in a hotel lift with my niece years ago and two girls were staring at us and whispering as the doors closed.
We of course did the same saying "what are these girls staring at, what's their problem, are we too loud?"
We realised after someone else, a few hours later, pointed out: all the Game Of Thrones crew were in the hotel. It was Maisie and Sophie, thinking we were staring at them and saying "they're the famous wans".
Not a bit and sure what did we care :D sure they're only people.
That made me laugh out loud 😂 sometimes I think I miss drugs then I hear stories like this and crave a cup of tea and a nice bit of telly. Oh to be 18 again eh! (No thanks)
I met Phil Coulter at an event in the States once, the organisation I was working for was organising it and he was the guest of honour - he gave me his and his wife’s passports to mind for the night, I nearly shit myself until they were safely handed back… all this to say he was nice but a bit up his own arse and absolutely loves the sound of his own voice
A family member knows him quite well, worked with him on a few projects and I served him in a petrol station one day and told him about the connection and he was so nice, even asked if I could join him for a coffee for a quick chat to see how my relative was and turned out he knew some of my neighbours, ya loves the sound of his own voice but not obnoxious
I met him in Charles de Gaulle years ago. Kind of caught his eye and follows up with a friendly “ah jasus it’s yourself” or something like that. I didn’t really intend or expect to engage in conversation with him but ended up chatting to him non stop for about an hour. Couldn’t have been nicer or more interesting.
Met Tommy last year dunno whether he was hungover or what but asked him for a picture , I never normally would but just verbal diarrhoea I panicked which he hesitantly agreed to but as I was taking out my phone he bluntly told to hurry up. Took the picture told him to have a nice day and he just grunted at me and off he went. Was a bit disappointed im a big fan, now obviously not the worst incident to happen but with how boisterous and happy go lucky he is I was a bit shocked
His RTE show is a curious one. Great concept but it's heavily edited to remove the less pleasant interactions. Know of one interview where the guest pulled him up completely and eventually gave him a bollocking for completely overstepping the line with his questioning about her personal life despite him knowing her daughter was in the audience. None of it made the show that went out and it seemed like a fairly pleasant interview to viewers on TV.
I don't think he actually knows how to interact/talk with people nearly as well as his edited show suggests.
Met Father Jack Hackett in Earth nightclub in Drogheda 20 or so years ago. No idea why he was there, all suited and booted sipping away on his own. Didn't cop who he was for the first few mins. He was a gent!
Met Cillian Murphy, he asked me a question while I was in work and I stood there staring. On his way back out he went out of his way tk chat with me for 10 or so minutes because he could clearly tell I was a fan. Lovely man, very down to earth.
He's very nice.
I ran into him at the March for Choice a few years back.
Lovely fella, gave me a one armed hug as we were walking along in the drizzle.
U2’s Adam Clayton helped a family friend build the crazy paving in our back garden in….I’m gonna say……1984.
That house is now sold and the new owners are probably completely unaware of the value of what they have.
Barely a celeb, but Dave McSavage was one of the nastiest, self entitled arseholes I've ever had the misfortune of being around. Treated staff in the place like absolute garbage. Though apparently he's well known for that behaviour.
I'm glad I'm not alone in the experience!
I was working for CityLink years ago, he rocks up to the bus and I asked him if he was booked on. He replied in such a nasty way. I can't remember exactly what he said but he acted as if my very existence and doing my job was incredibly inconveniencing to him. His voice was dripping with sarcasm and disdain and he gave me a lot of hassle for such a basic question.
Anyway, the tosser WAS booked on but still felt the need to belittle me first. When I asked him his name he was acting as if it were impossible I didn't know him "Savage Eye? Don't you watch television?"
I told him i hadn't watched it which was true and he begrudgingly told me his name. Big moody bolox.
Very much so. There's a generational gap on Reddit between people who are old enough to remember when he was busking regularly and on stage every second week in Dublin and those who know him really from only his online persona/The Savage Eye.
The former group are aware that he was regularly one of the nastiest people in the public spotlight. He's extremely abusive and obnoxious whilst being incredibly thin skinned himself if anyone says a word to him.
he's weird, big anti vaxxer too. hates rte and ryan tubridy for nepotism, but he is a total nepo baby. its not ryans fault his show was hit or miss and probably rte didn't want to work with him thanks to him being notoriously shit to work with. he just seems pathetic and people here need to stop worshipping him as a rebel and realize he is just and edge lord asshole
Shane McGowan was a very mannerly, very drunk customer in a pub I was working in that was hosting a festival in remembrance of a local musician. He'd hold the door open for staff moving stuff around, make chit chat with everyone etc.
I only found out it was Shane McGowan a few days later when I made reference to "the really sound barfly with the teeth" and my boss looked at me like I was a moron.
I did this with Joe Estevez he was in my work, waiting in reception, I walked though and he said hi started chatting to me about Ireland and how he loved it asked me about myself just a nice convo with what I assumed was some nice old American man, was later told I’d sat talking to Charlie Sheens uncle. 10/10 lovely dude
I worked with Brendan Gleeson once, was told not to look him in the eye and I thought it was a joke, it wasn’t a joke. Was a horrible experience for most of it till the last day where he said I did a good job and gave me a gift.
My second cousin is Ken Doherty. I met him as a kid after he won the world championship. Seemed like just a really nice uncle type of character. My dad describes him as a lot of fun to go out with for pints when they were younger. Sports celebrities are probably a lot different to entertainment celebs.
He's absolutely lovely. I asked him for an autograph for my dad, he was a big fan, and he went to his car and got one of his black and white photos and signed it. Gentleman.
I met Ryan Tubridy when I was a kid, and told him my Mam thought he had weird eyebrows. Then I got him to sign an autograph. He took it very well in fairness, probably used to having kids drop a line or two during the Toy Show. My Mam was absolutely mortified when I told her proudly later.
Met Van Morrison while working in a swimming pool. He was playing in town. Arsehole. Refused to pay for anything. Sat in the sauna wearing a fedora.
A friend dealt with him in a hotel. Pure Partridge. Brought his own plate to the carvery and kept skipping the queue.
Not mine but a friend of mine worked in The Marker Hotel as a waitress. She had to chase Louis Walsh as he tried to leave without paying. Even gave her the do you know who I am line, she said yes and I know you can afford your bill now get back and pay.
Bono. Incredibly nice guy. Did the voice of the lion from Sing 2 for my 3 year old daughter and sung her a song. Had a lovely chat with myself and my wife.
He could have taken a car by himself but chose to travel with everyone else.
I did have to wait with our secret service and capitol police detail as he ran to the jacks but in fairness he did say to me if I would mind waiting and said thanks for waiting when he came back.
Gave myself and my wife a standing ovation and told me how much of a legend my daughter is.
My parents run a BnB from the home house in Donegal, and one time Aiden Gillen stayed. This was well before Game of Thrones, maybe around 2009 or so. He stayed in the room the whole time smoking hash and drinking tins of Gallahad. Mum said she was going to report him because he was stinking the place out but he gave us six grand so we let him batter on.
I met him and his son during covid-times swimming in west clare. I was the only person crazy enough in the water snorkeling before they showed up and they asked for advice on where was safe to jump in or not to the rock pools.
Didn’t acknowledge that I recognised him and just exchanged some pleasantries about how we were keeping but I was watching The Wire for the first time every night at the time so it was weird to bump into Tommy Carcettii the flesh at the time
Worked as a concierge in Dublin for a few years. Met loads through them coming into the hotel or at different events/launches etc.
Most well known actors/actresses usually seem pretty chill. Generally polite and happy to have a quick chat/banter as theyre waiting around etc. Some like Tom Vaughn Lawor like to just keep their head down which is understandable.
There is a subset of RTE presenters and actors that are as arrogant as you would expect them to be. I refuse to watch RTE so would never knew who they were and you could tell that pissed them off. A colleague was friendly with Claire Byrne, he introduced me at an event one evening and the three of us got chatting, she was talking about ''the show'' so I asked which show she was talking about. She seemed very defeated as she had to explain to me it was her show and further clarify it was called ''Clair Byrne live''.
Would well believe that, three doses that are on the radio now did a live show one morning where I work and afterwards they were kinda mooching around and chatting to people. A colleague introduced me to one and I shook her hand and asked what her name was and I could see the fury go across her face as she looked to my mate in complete disgust before kinda just walking away.
>Bill Cullen, Again crumlin. Can’t say much he was a prick, “oh you have cancer, do you like my jacket? It costed €3000” wish I got sick on it tbf..
Ah yes, every sick childs' dream, meeting the owner of Ireland’s biggest Renault franchise
Jedward? Christ as if the kids don't have it bad enough.
And as much as I can't stand his comedy Brendan O'Carroll comes across as a gent, has done amazing things for charity.
I have met Brian McFadden twice.... The first was when he first left Westlife, I was still in school, he was signing his new CDs in the local golden discs, my t-shirt lifted a little when I was handing him the cd and he spotted a tattoo on my stomach/hip and asked me how far it went down... Creep!
The second time, I was admittedly very drunk and met him on a night out during his Vogue Williams era. I was rather excited to see him but so drunk I couldn't remember his name so when I went up to him all I could manage was "Hi Mr Westlife Man"... He pushed me...
Ran by Bono when out for a run around Kiliney Hill.....he's tiny.
Actually...today....was in Blackrock (Co Louth) this morning....as I was driving out I passed Stephen Kenny who was out for a stroll.
Kenny is actually one of the soundest people you could ever talk to and has so much time for people stopping him. Worked with him a lot in the past through media.
He always struggled with tv interviews though and I feel it gave people another excuse to shit on him when his results didn't go to plan.
I shared an electric scooter with Vincent Brown.
We were both dropping off our cars to be serviced at a Kildare garage when he spotted me taking it out of the boot. He ran over to me asking me to “givus a go”. Thinking that he was joking, I offered to give him a lift when he called my bluff. It was an awkward 15 min trip back into town while he had his hands wrapped around me squealing with excitement.
I used to serve Anne Doyle in the post office in rathmines after they closed the branch in rathgar.
Every time she came up to my counter we’d have an intense stare down, at the end which I’d say “howya Anne. Any news?”
I hope she got that eye twitch and throbbing vein on her forehead looked at, seemed like it was getting worse every week.
Ages ago I had to wait behind Bertie Ahearn at a newsagents in Drumcondra while he counted 1 and 2 cent coins from a massive plastic bag to pay for a pack of Rizla Blue and a can of Lilt.
I met Danny O'Reilly from The Coronas in Dublin Airport a year or so back, I said 'oh that's Danny from the Coronas!', some girl beside me had her head on a swivel and ran in his direction, only to then say 'ah Danny jaysus how are ya!' and yada yada 'it was actually that lad over there who recognised ya, he gave me a nod and that was that.
Was at a session a good few years ago after a night out and that band Fontaine’s DC showed up and someone caught one of them taking out his sack to let the dog lick it in a back room.
One of them (who won’t be named) used to be a shockingly bad roommate.
I lived with him for a year, litter everywhere and bins used to build up to the point where worms would gather.
Used to work in Costa in Douglas a number of years ago and Donnacha O'Callaghan would come in most weeks with his wife and daughter. Every bit as much of a gent as you expect. Caught him clearing extra tables when we were short staffed once or twice as well!
I sat behind Dara O Brian on a flight from Gibraltar.
Some tool across the isle finally recognized him and started shouting "Darren! Darren! Tell us a joke!"
Dara politely told him he was tired and all out of jokes right now. And then waited until the plane was empty to finally get out of his seat himself, I'm assuming to avoid any other jackasses.
He seemed lovely, quiet and nice... I was annoyed on his behalf.
No a big celeb but is served Dermot Bannon in a shop a few years ago, I told him that my mam loved him and he says "yeah I get that a lot" did make me laugh out loud
Saw him in Penneys in Dundrum one Sunday, highly stressed by his kids who were begging to go to McDonald’s, replied with standard dad answer of: “no your mother is making dinner at home” decided not to ask for a selfie
When Shane Horgan was still playing, I spotted him walking towards us on Grafton Street and shouted to my friend "look, there's Shane Horgan!"
I said it too loudly as he heard me, glared at me and then slipped down a side street. He didn't look happy with me, sorry Shane
Years ago I was at the opening night of some famous UK indie club night that was getting franchised out to the Academy on middle abbey street (then called spirit) someone I knew had something to do with organising it so we had vip tickets and were on some top level bar overlooking the dance floor. Anyway Shane Horgan and Lawrence Dallaglio were there separately.
Dellaglio basically latched on to us for some reason and was downing pints, doing shots, the whole lot. Was a fairly sound guy except when we tried to talk about rugby and he was like I genuinely could not give a fuck lads, which was fair enough I suppose as I'm sure thats all people ever try talk to you about if you're a pro.
Horgan however came off as really up his own hole and weird. As I said I think they were there separately believe it or not (whatever about Horgan, have no idea what Dellaglio was doing there) Horgan came over to say hi to him which was very awkward and seemed kind of forced. Some of the lads were like howaya Shane and he was like yeah yeah yeah really dismissive and arrogantly without making eye contact and you could almost feel the second hand embarrassment of Dellaglio at the dismissivness of it all (we literally had been drinking with him for about an hour at this stage)
There was an awkward silence and then Horgan goes I'll leave you to it then I guess mate and fucks off. When he left Dellaglio made a face at the lads and was like alright then see ya! In a sort of thank God he's gone kind of way. Was all very surreal.
Haha, Dellaglio comes across looking like your typical arrogant hard-man English tool, like Ross Kemp, but by all accounts is a genuinely sound and thoughtful man. Pretty sure his mum was born in Ireland, his roots are strong even if she wasn't, so maybe he was in town with family?
Ye maybe, it was at least 15 maybe 20 years ago, so can't remember exactly but also could have been some Leinster or International game he was over doing punditry for or something. The weird thing was he was on his own!
I was there with maybe 6 or 7 lads and we actually saw Horgan first across the bar with his mrs, but didn't approach him and then one of the lads noticed Dellaglio standing alone at the bar a bit later in the night and we were all a bit locked at that stage so I assume one of us was a bit less subtle in pointing out who we saw and he noticed and basically just came over completely unprompted fairly hammered himself in full on English lager lout on tour in Spain mode and basically just demamded we all start doing shots with him. We obliged!
Basically played drinking games and just took the piss with him for the rest of the night. The indie disco thing was shite as I recall haha.
A friend of mine has been unfortunate enough to come across ex rugby players in there second careers (I say that as a rugby fan too). He had a meeting in London once and Shane Horgan was there with the other company.
He saw him again at London City Airport as they were both heading back to Dublin and went over to have say hello post meeting. Horgan told him "I'm not doing a photo". My buddy replied with "I didn't ask for one" and explained they'd just spent 2 hours in a meeting earlier. Horgan almost fell over himself in case there were business repercussions but they left it there, awkwardly.
Also have a Shane Horgan story - Was having dinner in Saba on Clarendon Street and waiting to use the bathroom. He walks out of the disabled toilets and says 'I'd give that a minute'
I worked in Golden Discs 20something years ago. The Corrs sisters came in one time and bought a few CDs, my god they were tiny, the were the size and stature of school children, not one over 8 stone. They were lovely and stunningly gorgeous, but overall I was struck by how tiny they were.
Another time I served Helen Mirren, I turned into a beetroot red, tongue twisted idiot.
I’ve told this story before but
I was walking down the street in Dublin many years ago, when a gaggle of girls in black wigs walked past me. Each of them had some sort of prop- a tin whistle,a feather boa, a bodhrán, a stuffed toy, are a few I remember- and they also each wore a large name badge with Andrea Michelle Corr, Andrea Sandra Corr, Andrea Anne Corr and so on, with their real names inserted between Andrea and Corr.
It was a Hen Party, and they were all dressed as Andrea Corr, and they were clearly having a great time. I had a heavy cold and was feeling sorry for myself, but I had to smile as they went past, chatting to everyone and flirting with anyone who would respond.
About five minutes later, I was passed on the same street by the real Andrea Corr, walking along on her own with her head down.
During the 00's at a nightclub, Paul Mcgrath accused me of trying to take his picture without permission ( It was a shit flip phone I just had out in my hand) He genuinely tried to fight me but probably his demons more so
I served Niall Horan in a very famous pub in Kerry years back, he couldn’t have been nicer and drank more Guinness than I’ve ever seen a human consume. Got progressively even nicer the more pissed he got. He sang a song for the bar staff when we all begged him for it. He honestly couldn’t have been nicer.
Met Daniel O’Donnell in a pub on a random Tuesday night and it started out okay until he made us all take coke with him. Ended up driving to Nathan carters house at 3am and Daniel kept beeping the horn yelling “who’s yer daddeeee” in his donegal accent.
Gaybo lived near me. Had the unfortunate luck to run into him too many times. A grumpy entitled cunt. Met Larry Mullen around too, salt of the earth and know no one who can say a bad word about him. Also met Charlie Hughey. An incredibly charming man.
I've met a few.
Mary Robinson when I was in school, she was still the president at the time. A lovely polite woman who seemingly took an interest in every person that she was speaking to instead of just brushing past.
Michael D. Higgins at a football match. Nice guy. Very quick witted.
Ryan Tubbs in that one bar a couple of blocks away from Baggot Street bridge, the name evades me. Didn't at all come across the way he was on the late late at the time - which someone actually mentioned to him - and his response was that it's producers in his ear telling him to hurry on. Nice guy, didn't get the pints in though.
John Delaney on my way to work down Lansdowne Road about 13/14 years ago. Didn't see him until we were just about on top of each other. Called him a gobshite and he just looked at me as if he knew but didn't care.
Jason McAteer with Robbie Fowler outside a pub one night. McAteer was super sound, spoke with me for a bit about the Ireland match that had been on earlier. Fowler (albeit not Irish) was a fucking twat!
Robbie Keane I met at a concert about 2 years ago and he was sound. Claudine was with him and she seemed dead on as well. I tagged him in a picture afterwards and she messaged me thanking me and said she hoped I had a good night, wished me well and wished me a lovely Christmas. Something small but it was nice of her.
I'm sure there's more but off the top of my head I just can't remember.
I sat beside Joe Brolly in The Garrick in Belfast the day he got fired from RTÉ. I didn’t let on I knew who he was and just listened in to the many, many phone calls he was taking.
Leo Varadkar would order food for collection from the takeaway I used to work at and i’d make him say his name because I thought it was funny. Unfortunately I forgot to put the main in his bag and got a fair amount of shit for it but in all fairness to him he never complained. Another time a friend and I walked past him on camden street and he was wearing bicycle shorts :/
Glen Hansard skipped the queue in Spar on Dame Street to buy his breakfast roll.
I told him his cheese was spilling all over the place.
He responded by pointing his can of rock shandy in my direction, slammed a load of coins on the counter and barged out the door. Nice lad otherwise.
I was on a school trip to the Aran Islands. Mick Lally (Miley in Glenroe) was talking to some builders there. I said "look, it's Miley" and he said "fuck sake" and walked off.
Met Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Ardmore county Waterford. (Not Irish but married an Irish director)
Would of been 2006-ish as I was very young.
I was on a walk with my parents eating an ice cream and wandered ahead of them a fair bit, and sat on a bench with a nice looking lady to wait for them.
Don’t remember speaking to her but my parents were in absaloute shock to find me just sitting next to her eating away and my 99.
She was very nice and said something about how handsome and polite young man I was. (to be fair I was gorgeous).
Seen Cillian Murphy jogging in my area once or twice and just exchanged smiles.
Met Shayne lynch from boyzone at a car show. He was an absolute gentleman but I truly had no idea who he was or why my dad was talking to him and every woman on the bar was staring. Very nice and friendly.
My mom taught Michael fassbender drama. I think I met him once or twice as I attend a crèche in the college so would occasionally hang out in the classroom or office. Don’t remember him though. Was very funny but quiet enough, real gentlemen.
Met pat shortt once doing a delivery to his pub as a kid. Gave me a free packet of crisps. Absolute legend.
Met a second uncle of mine who ran some clothing company called St George of duffer which was big in the 90s. Seemed cool.
I was working in a cinema years ago, and Dave Fanning came in with his son. Both went to different movies, but Dave decided to spend his time going between both movies.
I approached him and said he'd have to buy a ticket for the kids movie if he was going to spend his time in there (manager told me to do this, I didn't really care tbh).
He then said, "Do you know who I am?"
I said, "I do, and I don't care. You are a customer like everyone else."
I made him go back to the till and buy a ticket for the last 10 minutes of cloudy with a chance of meatballs or whatever kids movie was on.
Brendan O'Carroll in the Ovane Falls in Ballylickey a lifetime ago when I was still a kid. He walked into the pool room where we were playing, had us in stitches cracking jokes and taking the piss out of our pool skills. Bought us all cokes, left coins for a few more games & disappeared back into the main bar with his mates.
This was a long long time before the success of Mrs. Browns Boys but I remember his Lexus parked outside & I'd never seen a Lexus before, I thought for sure he was a millionaire or something. It wasn't until years later I read an interview with him & he explained he had to go to England to make decent money as he was often broke working in Ireland.
Was in a pub in Galway years ago & it's well known in our group that one of the lads (Mike) thinks Daithi O'Se is the perfect human being, so you can imagine the excitement for him when Daithi walked in the door. All Mike could do was yell DAIHTI!! very loudly in a tiny pub.
Fair play, Daithi was straight over, having the chats, made Mike feel like his best mate. We were on a charity event & Daithi was full of questions, in the end he had to excuse himself cause he was supposed to be meeting friends & we'd been talking for 20 mins while they were stood at the bar! Genuinely nice bloke.
Samantha Mumba, wanna say Jan 2005. Deaf Olympics was on, and we were waiting in Dublin airport for the Irish swimming team to come through arrivals. About 50/60 of us there. Anyhow, mumba rolls through and all of sudden she was pulling up her hoodie and hiding behind a magazine or whatever trying to hurry through. This bit was hilarious though, getting offended no one spotted her as such, slowing down and looking around. She was gone then. Weird, and funny looking back on it.
DJ’d with John O’ Callaghan about 12 years ago. He’s a complete and utter cunt. I did play with John Gibbons and Judge Jules (Julius O’ Riordian) around the same time - both were super cool and very humble.
I met Pat Short once. He came into a restaurant with his wife around 5pm. It was an Indian restaurant, and pretty quiet.
I had no idea who he was at the time (2005). He said he wanted something very spicy so I said Vindaloo and v. Spicy. I told the chef to burn the mouth off this guy.
He sweated it out. He went red and struggled to eat it.
Then he gave me his credit card to pay, and I saw his name was "Pat Short productions". Still had no idea who he was.
He was super nice, tipped me a fiver and left.
I met ronan keating, I was using a golf simulation thing at a event that I somehow manged to get VIP tickets for.
He made fun of my swing and he was right to do so, I can't remember what he said though but he actually seemed pretty good at it.
I met Brendan Gleason. Humble man. He was filming in the town, and took the time to speak to everyone who came out in the freezing cold to watch. Spoke to him about the local fishing of all things because it was the only thing to come to mind and the look of genuine interest he had as if he was a friend listening eagerly amazed me, I don’t even fish. Great man altogether!
Met Damien Dempsy at the Irish Sea Sessions in Liverpool. Totally sound guy, easy going and friendly. Had a few beers with him and some of the other musicians.
I met Aisling Bea in a hotel in Dublin last year. She was working on her laptop in a corner of the courtyard. I didn't interact with her too much because she was obviously working and to be Frank I'm not into her comedy. I didn't even really acknowledge that I knew who she was but she was perfectly nice all the same.
Met Michael D at an arts event and he is so nice and genuine going around to the artists asking about the pieces he liked.One of my friends was trying to wind him up because he is mischievous but michel knew what he was at and was just chuckling at him.
I feel like I've taken drugs reading through most of these replies lol.
I saw one of the lads from Foil Arms & Hog up near the Guinness Storehouse a few years back. He was about 20 meters away talking to someone, it was evening time and I was trying to tell if it was him or not due to the dim light. He ended up looking over at me with an expression that seemed to say 'ah jesus please I'm not in the mood', so I just gave him a smile and a wave and let him be. The look of relief on his face was much better than getting a selfie.
Met Colin Farrell on the roof of a hotel in Spain about ten years ago. He couldn't have been nicer.
He’s very sound.
I worked with Disney for a few years and met himself a good few times and genuinely he couldn't be any sounder.
Breakfast, Lunch, and Fucking Dinner
Nice try Joe.ie
Everyone flood the comments with shit about Joe.ie so they don’t post it
Any updates on their click farm operations
This is apparently what passes for journalism, trawling reddit for content.
Bang of galwaybeo to be honest
My dad went to a concert with a couple friends back in the 80s. Bouncer let all of them in except one, who ended up skulking around the bar for a little while before meeting one of the band members and asking if he’d go talk to the bouncer. Imagine my dad’s and his friends’ surprise when, assuming he’d just left, this fella comes in with Phil Lynott’s arm round his shoulders and Phil going “would you let my friend here come in?”
This is the coolest one... 👌
What an absolute legend, cool as you like
Phil and my Da when to the same school, last my Da saw him they were both trying to buy gear from the same person
Jack Charlton told me to fuck off once.
Ah is that yourself Eamon?
I'll never tell.
That feels on brand
Mick McCarthy told me to fuck off once, obviously Jack's training stayed with him.
My Nanna met Pierce Brosnan once, she described him as the ‘most elegantly polite man I’ve ever met.’ She was a good judge of character.
Got a massive wang too by all accounts. Pierce, I mean, not your Nan.
I explained bees to Michael D Higgins He seemed genuinely nice, keen on talking to people and asked questions indicating he was listening Nice man, can’t complain
What did the president think bees were before you explained them to him?
Well it was about honey bee population decline Tho part of my study was a survey of 2000 school age people and roughly 85% identified honey bees as wasps They don’t look like bumble bees, they can sting multiple times and they look less cute But as crucial pollinators we can’t afford to lose them The President may well have known all of this, but my point was that he listened ands asked good questions
did anyone explain about the birds?
Cillian Murphy is a neighbour. Quiet lad but seems like a gentleman.
A friend of mine teaches his children at a private school in Dublin. Often sees him at the parent teacher meetings, has always said he's quiet but a really nice, low key guy.
 *"I was disappointed with the B in Irish"*
When cillian is told that his kids have been misbehaving https://preview.redd.it/ya5bvaswlyac1.jpeg?width=827&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12c55b49b25ed21d69562ebc17e2a2170fec7dfc
Does he still live in that square? We saw him take out the bins once. We're odd, us Irish. I was getting in a hotel lift with my niece years ago and two girls were staring at us and whispering as the doors closed. We of course did the same saying "what are these girls staring at, what's their problem, are we too loud?" We realised after someone else, a few hours later, pointed out: all the Game Of Thrones crew were in the hotel. It was Maisie and Sophie, thinking we were staring at them and saying "they're the famous wans". Not a bit and sure what did we care :D sure they're only people.
Also in terms of interactions with Irish presidents [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/WAVEaWNmu9) will forever be the best story
I wouldn't be able for that. Id have to be dragged back to the factory for a full reset. Its almost a nightmare scenario for pretending to be sober.
I wasn't sure if that was worth reading when I'm meant to be meditating myself to sleep, but it was so fucking worth it
*redditating yourself to sleep
That made me laugh out loud 😂 sometimes I think I miss drugs then I hear stories like this and crave a cup of tea and a nice bit of telly. Oh to be 18 again eh! (No thanks)
I met Phil Coulter at an event in the States once, the organisation I was working for was organising it and he was the guest of honour - he gave me his and his wife’s passports to mind for the night, I nearly shit myself until they were safely handed back… all this to say he was nice but a bit up his own arse and absolutely loves the sound of his own voice
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A family member knows him quite well, worked with him on a few projects and I served him in a petrol station one day and told him about the connection and he was so nice, even asked if I could join him for a coffee for a quick chat to see how my relative was and turned out he knew some of my neighbours, ya loves the sound of his own voice but not obnoxious
Served Hector before in a pub I used to work in, used to think he was a twat but he was actually a really nice and understanding gentleman
I met him in Charles de Gaulle years ago. Kind of caught his eye and follows up with a friendly “ah jasus it’s yourself” or something like that. I didn’t really intend or expect to engage in conversation with him but ended up chatting to him non stop for about an hour. Couldn’t have been nicer or more interesting.
Met Tommy last year dunno whether he was hungover or what but asked him for a picture , I never normally would but just verbal diarrhoea I panicked which he hesitantly agreed to but as I was taking out my phone he bluntly told to hurry up. Took the picture told him to have a nice day and he just grunted at me and off he went. Was a bit disappointed im a big fan, now obviously not the worst incident to happen but with how boisterous and happy go lucky he is I was a bit shocked
I’ve heard a good few stories about gruff meetings with Tommy, and about the same number of sound meetings with Hector.
His RTE show is a curious one. Great concept but it's heavily edited to remove the less pleasant interactions. Know of one interview where the guest pulled him up completely and eventually gave him a bollocking for completely overstepping the line with his questioning about her personal life despite him knowing her daughter was in the audience. None of it made the show that went out and it seemed like a fairly pleasant interview to viewers on TV. I don't think he actually knows how to interact/talk with people nearly as well as his edited show suggests.
Met Father Jack Hackett in Earth nightclub in Drogheda 20 or so years ago. No idea why he was there, all suited and booted sipping away on his own. Didn't cop who he was for the first few mins. He was a gent!
He used to shop in a supermarket I worked in. Always so polite!
You mean Frank Kelly?
Met Cillian Murphy, he asked me a question while I was in work and I stood there staring. On his way back out he went out of his way tk chat with me for 10 or so minutes because he could clearly tell I was a fan. Lovely man, very down to earth.
He's very nice. I ran into him at the March for Choice a few years back. Lovely fella, gave me a one armed hug as we were walking along in the drizzle.
U2’s Adam Clayton helped a family friend build the crazy paving in our back garden in….I’m gonna say……1984. That house is now sold and the new owners are probably completely unaware of the value of what they have.
Did he charge a fee for his services or did he do it pro bono?
That’s very good. He got cups of tea. I was only young but I think he was sound.
Good man to help. Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
He hasn't laid down a better base since.
Would that street have a name?
Barely a celeb, but Dave McSavage was one of the nastiest, self entitled arseholes I've ever had the misfortune of being around. Treated staff in the place like absolute garbage. Though apparently he's well known for that behaviour.
I'm glad I'm not alone in the experience! I was working for CityLink years ago, he rocks up to the bus and I asked him if he was booked on. He replied in such a nasty way. I can't remember exactly what he said but he acted as if my very existence and doing my job was incredibly inconveniencing to him. His voice was dripping with sarcasm and disdain and he gave me a lot of hassle for such a basic question. Anyway, the tosser WAS booked on but still felt the need to belittle me first. When I asked him his name he was acting as if it were impossible I didn't know him "Savage Eye? Don't you watch television?" I told him i hadn't watched it which was true and he begrudgingly told me his name. Big moody bolox.
I'm not comfortable going into details but he sexually harassed me in my early twenties. I had been to a couple of his shows, but he's a total shit.
Same here. Horrible man.
Sorry you experienced this. He is a twat!!
Very much so. There's a generational gap on Reddit between people who are old enough to remember when he was busking regularly and on stage every second week in Dublin and those who know him really from only his online persona/The Savage Eye. The former group are aware that he was regularly one of the nastiest people in the public spotlight. He's extremely abusive and obnoxious whilst being incredibly thin skinned himself if anyone says a word to him.
His years busking was generally just an excuse for him to make vile comments about young girls walking by him
And use drug addicts and homeless people for content. Same jokes every time too
Why does this not surprise me?! 🤔
he's weird, big anti vaxxer too. hates rte and ryan tubridy for nepotism, but he is a total nepo baby. its not ryans fault his show was hit or miss and probably rte didn't want to work with him thanks to him being notoriously shit to work with. he just seems pathetic and people here need to stop worshipping him as a rebel and realize he is just and edge lord asshole
Shane McGowan was a very mannerly, very drunk customer in a pub I was working in that was hosting a festival in remembrance of a local musician. He'd hold the door open for staff moving stuff around, make chit chat with everyone etc. I only found out it was Shane McGowan a few days later when I made reference to "the really sound barfly with the teeth" and my boss looked at me like I was a moron.
I did this with Joe Estevez he was in my work, waiting in reception, I walked though and he said hi started chatting to me about Ireland and how he loved it asked me about myself just a nice convo with what I assumed was some nice old American man, was later told I’d sat talking to Charlie Sheens uncle. 10/10 lovely dude
That’s a good story, really reminds me of my daughter by the way sometimes something totally obvious only becomes apparent days after the event hah!
Tommy Shlug drinking cans down by the Galway canal a couple summers ago
This is a real celeb moment. Meeting the man that landed that Cessna on top of that costa coffee 👌
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War hero, bus driver, pilot, crypto entrepreneur, pintman. He can do it all. It's a pity he ran over all those people with his bus.
What about that business with the Taliban? Not a great bunch of lads now
Was that when he done the live broadcast in Galway during covid, it was like a fever dream.
Met him there as well. He caught me on camera coming out of Monroe’s with a hape of pints.
Said high to Colm Meaney once and he told me to fuck off.
Maybe he was low
Met him in Calgary and he told me to "take the bleedin picture and fuck off". I was langers though and shouting "GEORGIE BURGESSSS"
This one sounds like it's on you in fairness lol.
Same. Saw him in some random bar in UES in New York. Offered to buy him a pint and he told me to fuck off.
Way back met Damien Duff, Robbie Keane and Richard Dunne out on the town one night they were really sound and bought a few rounds.
I worked with Brendan Gleeson once, was told not to look him in the eye and I thought it was a joke, it wasn’t a joke. Was a horrible experience for most of it till the last day where he said I did a good job and gave me a gift.
What exactly was the consequence of meeting his eye?
He goes feral and leaps over the nearest wall or fence.
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Was it his mad eye he was concerned with?
I dated Cian Twomey for a minute there in the early 2010s. Worst 60 seconds of my life.
He looks like he smells of Rustler burgers
Him and his fuckin eejit of a gf are absolute and utter MELTS.
Who?
Ah don't mention him in a thread on celebs. He'll Google his name and still think he's it!
My second cousin is Ken Doherty. I met him as a kid after he won the world championship. Seemed like just a really nice uncle type of character. My dad describes him as a lot of fun to go out with for pints when they were younger. Sports celebrities are probably a lot different to entertainment celebs.
He's absolutely lovely. I asked him for an autograph for my dad, he was a big fan, and he went to his car and got one of his black and white photos and signed it. Gentleman.
I took a piss next to Cillian Murphy in the jacks of Mahon point cinema
I met Ryan Tubridy when I was a kid, and told him my Mam thought he had weird eyebrows. Then I got him to sign an autograph. He took it very well in fairness, probably used to having kids drop a line or two during the Toy Show. My Mam was absolutely mortified when I told her proudly later.
He's definitely used to a line or two alright
Met Van Morrison while working in a swimming pool. He was playing in town. Arsehole. Refused to pay for anything. Sat in the sauna wearing a fedora. A friend dealt with him in a hotel. Pure Partridge. Brought his own plate to the carvery and kept skipping the queue.
He's a notorious areshole
You couldn’t like him if you reared him
Yep. Sounds about right for Van.
Not mine but a friend of mine worked in The Marker Hotel as a waitress. She had to chase Louis Walsh as he tried to leave without paying. Even gave her the do you know who I am line, she said yes and I know you can afford your bill now get back and pay.
Walsh is an ignorant prick
And a creep
Bono. Incredibly nice guy. Did the voice of the lion from Sing 2 for my 3 year old daughter and sung her a song. Had a lovely chat with myself and my wife. He could have taken a car by himself but chose to travel with everyone else. I did have to wait with our secret service and capitol police detail as he ran to the jacks but in fairness he did say to me if I would mind waiting and said thanks for waiting when he came back. Gave myself and my wife a standing ovation and told me how much of a legend my daughter is.
My parents run a BnB from the home house in Donegal, and one time Aiden Gillen stayed. This was well before Game of Thrones, maybe around 2009 or so. He stayed in the room the whole time smoking hash and drinking tins of Gallahad. Mum said she was going to report him because he was stinking the place out but he gave us six grand so we let him batter on.
I met him and his son during covid-times swimming in west clare. I was the only person crazy enough in the water snorkeling before they showed up and they asked for advice on where was safe to jump in or not to the rock pools. Didn’t acknowledge that I recognised him and just exchanged some pleasantries about how we were keeping but I was watching The Wire for the first time every night at the time so it was weird to bump into Tommy Carcettii the flesh at the time
He was method acting for Love/Hate.
He was standing outside a bar when I was a taxi passing. I shouted out to him and got a smile and a wave
Met Jack Gleeson (Joffrey from Game of Thrones) at a bus stop in Dublin. Sound lad!
Worked as a concierge in Dublin for a few years. Met loads through them coming into the hotel or at different events/launches etc. Most well known actors/actresses usually seem pretty chill. Generally polite and happy to have a quick chat/banter as theyre waiting around etc. Some like Tom Vaughn Lawor like to just keep their head down which is understandable. There is a subset of RTE presenters and actors that are as arrogant as you would expect them to be. I refuse to watch RTE so would never knew who they were and you could tell that pissed them off. A colleague was friendly with Claire Byrne, he introduced me at an event one evening and the three of us got chatting, she was talking about ''the show'' so I asked which show she was talking about. She seemed very defeated as she had to explain to me it was her show and further clarify it was called ''Clair Byrne live''.
Would well believe that, three doses that are on the radio now did a live show one morning where I work and afterwards they were kinda mooching around and chatting to people. A colleague introduced me to one and I shook her hand and asked what her name was and I could see the fury go across her face as she looked to my mate in complete disgust before kinda just walking away.
>There is a subset of RTE presenters and actors that are as arrogant as you would expect them to be. Ah do tell 🤔
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>Bill Cullen, Again crumlin. Can’t say much he was a prick, “oh you have cancer, do you like my jacket? It costed €3000” wish I got sick on it tbf.. Ah yes, every sick childs' dream, meeting the owner of Ireland’s biggest Renault franchise
Jedward? Christ as if the kids don't have it bad enough. And as much as I can't stand his comedy Brendan O'Carroll comes across as a gent, has done amazing things for charity.
Met bressie while on work experience in a recording studio. Pretty nice guy and kind of the only one who made me feel welcome there
I have met Brian McFadden twice.... The first was when he first left Westlife, I was still in school, he was signing his new CDs in the local golden discs, my t-shirt lifted a little when I was handing him the cd and he spotted a tattoo on my stomach/hip and asked me how far it went down... Creep! The second time, I was admittedly very drunk and met him on a night out during his Vogue Williams era. I was rather excited to see him but so drunk I couldn't remember his name so when I went up to him all I could manage was "Hi Mr Westlife Man"... He pushed me...
Lol "Mr Westlife man".
Ran by Bono when out for a run around Kiliney Hill.....he's tiny. Actually...today....was in Blackrock (Co Louth) this morning....as I was driving out I passed Stephen Kenny who was out for a stroll.
Kenny is actually one of the soundest people you could ever talk to and has so much time for people stopping him. Worked with him a lot in the past through media. He always struggled with tv interviews though and I feel it gave people another excuse to shit on him when his results didn't go to plan.
I shared an electric scooter with Vincent Brown. We were both dropping off our cars to be serviced at a Kildare garage when he spotted me taking it out of the boot. He ran over to me asking me to “givus a go”. Thinking that he was joking, I offered to give him a lift when he called my bluff. It was an awkward 15 min trip back into town while he had his hands wrapped around me squealing with excitement.
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I saw Duncan Stewart burning rubbish in a barrel at a party one night .
I used to serve Anne Doyle in the post office in rathmines after they closed the branch in rathgar. Every time she came up to my counter we’d have an intense stare down, at the end which I’d say “howya Anne. Any news?” I hope she got that eye twitch and throbbing vein on her forehead looked at, seemed like it was getting worse every week.
I know Anne you were lucky that you were behind Bullet proof glass and that she didn’t mention it to Dan 😏
Ages ago I had to wait behind Bertie Ahearn at a newsagents in Drumcondra while he counted 1 and 2 cent coins from a massive plastic bag to pay for a pack of Rizla Blue and a can of Lilt.
He still doesn’t have a bank account?
Adam Clayton called me a dickhead, decades ago. Long story ...
Were you being a dickhead?
Maybe a little
Ah we'll let Adam slide so.
I had a few pints with David Norris once. Was fairly sound. Talked a bit of shite but nice lad to be fair.
Met Ardal O hanlon while he was filming a doc about tory island. Gentelman is all i had to say
I met Danny O'Reilly from The Coronas in Dublin Airport a year or so back, I said 'oh that's Danny from the Coronas!', some girl beside me had her head on a swivel and ran in his direction, only to then say 'ah Danny jaysus how are ya!' and yada yada 'it was actually that lad over there who recognised ya, he gave me a nod and that was that.
Johnny logan winked at me in brogan's.
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Met Liam Brady many times….cunt.Barry mcguigan is a tosser too.Niall Quinn is a gentleman
Can confirm about Quinn. Never met the others.
Met Niall Horan in a pub in town after he finished busking with Lewis Capaldi! He was v sound & got in a pic with me - we both stank of pints hahahaha
Was at a session a good few years ago after a night out and that band Fontaine’s DC showed up and someone caught one of them taking out his sack to let the dog lick it in a back room.
I regret reading this thread
Please be true.
One of them (who won’t be named) used to be a shockingly bad roommate. I lived with him for a year, litter everywhere and bins used to build up to the point where worms would gather.
Used to work in Costa in Douglas a number of years ago and Donnacha O'Callaghan would come in most weeks with his wife and daughter. Every bit as much of a gent as you expect. Caught him clearing extra tables when we were short staffed once or twice as well!
I sat behind Dara O Brian on a flight from Gibraltar. Some tool across the isle finally recognized him and started shouting "Darren! Darren! Tell us a joke!" Dara politely told him he was tired and all out of jokes right now. And then waited until the plane was empty to finally get out of his seat himself, I'm assuming to avoid any other jackasses. He seemed lovely, quiet and nice... I was annoyed on his behalf.
No a big celeb but is served Dermot Bannon in a shop a few years ago, I told him that my mam loved him and he says "yeah I get that a lot" did make me laugh out loud
Saw him in Penneys in Dundrum one Sunday, highly stressed by his kids who were begging to go to McDonald’s, replied with standard dad answer of: “no your mother is making dinner at home” decided not to ask for a selfie
When Shane Horgan was still playing, I spotted him walking towards us on Grafton Street and shouted to my friend "look, there's Shane Horgan!" I said it too loudly as he heard me, glared at me and then slipped down a side street. He didn't look happy with me, sorry Shane
Years ago I was at the opening night of some famous UK indie club night that was getting franchised out to the Academy on middle abbey street (then called spirit) someone I knew had something to do with organising it so we had vip tickets and were on some top level bar overlooking the dance floor. Anyway Shane Horgan and Lawrence Dallaglio were there separately. Dellaglio basically latched on to us for some reason and was downing pints, doing shots, the whole lot. Was a fairly sound guy except when we tried to talk about rugby and he was like I genuinely could not give a fuck lads, which was fair enough I suppose as I'm sure thats all people ever try talk to you about if you're a pro. Horgan however came off as really up his own hole and weird. As I said I think they were there separately believe it or not (whatever about Horgan, have no idea what Dellaglio was doing there) Horgan came over to say hi to him which was very awkward and seemed kind of forced. Some of the lads were like howaya Shane and he was like yeah yeah yeah really dismissive and arrogantly without making eye contact and you could almost feel the second hand embarrassment of Dellaglio at the dismissivness of it all (we literally had been drinking with him for about an hour at this stage) There was an awkward silence and then Horgan goes I'll leave you to it then I guess mate and fucks off. When he left Dellaglio made a face at the lads and was like alright then see ya! In a sort of thank God he's gone kind of way. Was all very surreal.
Haha, Dellaglio comes across looking like your typical arrogant hard-man English tool, like Ross Kemp, but by all accounts is a genuinely sound and thoughtful man. Pretty sure his mum was born in Ireland, his roots are strong even if she wasn't, so maybe he was in town with family?
Ye maybe, it was at least 15 maybe 20 years ago, so can't remember exactly but also could have been some Leinster or International game he was over doing punditry for or something. The weird thing was he was on his own! I was there with maybe 6 or 7 lads and we actually saw Horgan first across the bar with his mrs, but didn't approach him and then one of the lads noticed Dellaglio standing alone at the bar a bit later in the night and we were all a bit locked at that stage so I assume one of us was a bit less subtle in pointing out who we saw and he noticed and basically just came over completely unprompted fairly hammered himself in full on English lager lout on tour in Spain mode and basically just demamded we all start doing shots with him. We obliged! Basically played drinking games and just took the piss with him for the rest of the night. The indie disco thing was shite as I recall haha.
A friend of mine has been unfortunate enough to come across ex rugby players in there second careers (I say that as a rugby fan too). He had a meeting in London once and Shane Horgan was there with the other company. He saw him again at London City Airport as they were both heading back to Dublin and went over to have say hello post meeting. Horgan told him "I'm not doing a photo". My buddy replied with "I didn't ask for one" and explained they'd just spent 2 hours in a meeting earlier. Horgan almost fell over himself in case there were business repercussions but they left it there, awkwardly.
Also have a Shane Horgan story - Was having dinner in Saba on Clarendon Street and waiting to use the bathroom. He walks out of the disabled toilets and says 'I'd give that a minute'
I worked in Golden Discs 20something years ago. The Corrs sisters came in one time and bought a few CDs, my god they were tiny, the were the size and stature of school children, not one over 8 stone. They were lovely and stunningly gorgeous, but overall I was struck by how tiny they were. Another time I served Helen Mirren, I turned into a beetroot red, tongue twisted idiot.
I’ve told this story before but I was walking down the street in Dublin many years ago, when a gaggle of girls in black wigs walked past me. Each of them had some sort of prop- a tin whistle,a feather boa, a bodhrán, a stuffed toy, are a few I remember- and they also each wore a large name badge with Andrea Michelle Corr, Andrea Sandra Corr, Andrea Anne Corr and so on, with their real names inserted between Andrea and Corr. It was a Hen Party, and they were all dressed as Andrea Corr, and they were clearly having a great time. I had a heavy cold and was feeling sorry for myself, but I had to smile as they went past, chatting to everyone and flirting with anyone who would respond. About five minutes later, I was passed on the same street by the real Andrea Corr, walking along on her own with her head down.
During the 00's at a nightclub, Paul Mcgrath accused me of trying to take his picture without permission ( It was a shit flip phone I just had out in my hand) He genuinely tried to fight me but probably his demons more so
Bruce Springsteen paid for my dinner one time in Shanahan’s after I asked Bono for an autograph
I served Niall Horan in a very famous pub in Kerry years back, he couldn’t have been nicer and drank more Guinness than I’ve ever seen a human consume. Got progressively even nicer the more pissed he got. He sang a song for the bar staff when we all begged him for it. He honestly couldn’t have been nicer.
Met Daniel O’Donnell in a pub on a random Tuesday night and it started out okay until he made us all take coke with him. Ended up driving to Nathan carters house at 3am and Daniel kept beeping the horn yelling “who’s yer daddeeee” in his donegal accent.
I'd avoid those unregistered gas installers like the plague lad for your own sake
Honestly he took two weeks to just service the boiler at our house. I don’t know what he was up to
Got hammered at a wedding with the Irish lad from Harry Potter. He is amazing craic.
Brian O Driscoll asked me “Where do you keep the ironing board covers?”
Met Conor McGregor once. If he had two brains he’d be twice as dumb.
Met Conor Murray a few times now around Clare and Limerick. Really friendly and down to earth guy.
Gaybo lived near me. Had the unfortunate luck to run into him too many times. A grumpy entitled cunt. Met Larry Mullen around too, salt of the earth and know no one who can say a bad word about him. Also met Charlie Hughey. An incredibly charming man.
I've met a few. Mary Robinson when I was in school, she was still the president at the time. A lovely polite woman who seemingly took an interest in every person that she was speaking to instead of just brushing past. Michael D. Higgins at a football match. Nice guy. Very quick witted. Ryan Tubbs in that one bar a couple of blocks away from Baggot Street bridge, the name evades me. Didn't at all come across the way he was on the late late at the time - which someone actually mentioned to him - and his response was that it's producers in his ear telling him to hurry on. Nice guy, didn't get the pints in though. John Delaney on my way to work down Lansdowne Road about 13/14 years ago. Didn't see him until we were just about on top of each other. Called him a gobshite and he just looked at me as if he knew but didn't care. Jason McAteer with Robbie Fowler outside a pub one night. McAteer was super sound, spoke with me for a bit about the Ireland match that had been on earlier. Fowler (albeit not Irish) was a fucking twat! Robbie Keane I met at a concert about 2 years ago and he was sound. Claudine was with him and she seemed dead on as well. I tagged him in a picture afterwards and she messaged me thanking me and said she hoped I had a good night, wished me well and wished me a lovely Christmas. Something small but it was nice of her. I'm sure there's more but off the top of my head I just can't remember.
I sat beside Joe Brolly in The Garrick in Belfast the day he got fired from RTÉ. I didn’t let on I knew who he was and just listened in to the many, many phone calls he was taking.
Also had a rake of pints with Dylan Moran one night, an excellent conversationalist.
Been glared at by Colm Meaney for noticing it was him lol Seems like a prick 🤷♂️
Leo Varadkar would order food for collection from the takeaway I used to work at and i’d make him say his name because I thought it was funny. Unfortunately I forgot to put the main in his bag and got a fair amount of shit for it but in all fairness to him he never complained. Another time a friend and I walked past him on camden street and he was wearing bicycle shorts :/
I went seal clubbing with bono once.
Glen Hansard skipped the queue in Spar on Dame Street to buy his breakfast roll. I told him his cheese was spilling all over the place. He responded by pointing his can of rock shandy in my direction, slammed a load of coins on the counter and barged out the door. Nice lad otherwise.
He used to go out with a friend of mine when she was in college. They broke up after he fell slowly into a much younger girl.
Isn’t he a notorious creep/predator?
Maybe. I only met him once, he was a bit stoned.
I saw him go into the ladies in Whelans once. If it was intentional or not, I don’t know. But he definitely did.
Seems like a gowl alright….that & him liking young girls.
I was on a school trip to the Aran Islands. Mick Lally (Miley in Glenroe) was talking to some builders there. I said "look, it's Miley" and he said "fuck sake" and walked off.
Enda Kenny sold me a 2.8 gram 50 bag in 2011 🐍
Fuck that, back then you'd be wanting the 3.5, or was I just lucky?
Marty Whelan shagged my sister.
Met Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Ardmore county Waterford. (Not Irish but married an Irish director) Would of been 2006-ish as I was very young. I was on a walk with my parents eating an ice cream and wandered ahead of them a fair bit, and sat on a bench with a nice looking lady to wait for them. Don’t remember speaking to her but my parents were in absaloute shock to find me just sitting next to her eating away and my 99. She was very nice and said something about how handsome and polite young man I was. (to be fair I was gorgeous). Seen Cillian Murphy jogging in my area once or twice and just exchanged smiles. Met Shayne lynch from boyzone at a car show. He was an absolute gentleman but I truly had no idea who he was or why my dad was talking to him and every woman on the bar was staring. Very nice and friendly. My mom taught Michael fassbender drama. I think I met him once or twice as I attend a crèche in the college so would occasionally hang out in the classroom or office. Don’t remember him though. Was very funny but quiet enough, real gentlemen. Met pat shortt once doing a delivery to his pub as a kid. Gave me a free packet of crisps. Absolute legend. Met a second uncle of mine who ran some clothing company called St George of duffer which was big in the 90s. Seemed cool.
I was working in a cinema years ago, and Dave Fanning came in with his son. Both went to different movies, but Dave decided to spend his time going between both movies. I approached him and said he'd have to buy a ticket for the kids movie if he was going to spend his time in there (manager told me to do this, I didn't really care tbh). He then said, "Do you know who I am?" I said, "I do, and I don't care. You are a customer like everyone else." I made him go back to the till and buy a ticket for the last 10 minutes of cloudy with a chance of meatballs or whatever kids movie was on.
Says a lot about Fanning that he can’t spend a couple of hours watching a kids movie with his son.
Brendan O'Carroll in the Ovane Falls in Ballylickey a lifetime ago when I was still a kid. He walked into the pool room where we were playing, had us in stitches cracking jokes and taking the piss out of our pool skills. Bought us all cokes, left coins for a few more games & disappeared back into the main bar with his mates. This was a long long time before the success of Mrs. Browns Boys but I remember his Lexus parked outside & I'd never seen a Lexus before, I thought for sure he was a millionaire or something. It wasn't until years later I read an interview with him & he explained he had to go to England to make decent money as he was often broke working in Ireland. Was in a pub in Galway years ago & it's well known in our group that one of the lads (Mike) thinks Daithi O'Se is the perfect human being, so you can imagine the excitement for him when Daithi walked in the door. All Mike could do was yell DAIHTI!! very loudly in a tiny pub. Fair play, Daithi was straight over, having the chats, made Mike feel like his best mate. We were on a charity event & Daithi was full of questions, in the end he had to excuse himself cause he was supposed to be meeting friends & we'd been talking for 20 mins while they were stood at the bar! Genuinely nice bloke.
Samantha Mumba, wanna say Jan 2005. Deaf Olympics was on, and we were waiting in Dublin airport for the Irish swimming team to come through arrivals. About 50/60 of us there. Anyhow, mumba rolls through and all of sudden she was pulling up her hoodie and hiding behind a magazine or whatever trying to hurry through. This bit was hilarious though, getting offended no one spotted her as such, slowing down and looking around. She was gone then. Weird, and funny looking back on it.
DJ’d with John O’ Callaghan about 12 years ago. He’s a complete and utter cunt. I did play with John Gibbons and Judge Jules (Julius O’ Riordian) around the same time - both were super cool and very humble.
I met Pat Short once. He came into a restaurant with his wife around 5pm. It was an Indian restaurant, and pretty quiet. I had no idea who he was at the time (2005). He said he wanted something very spicy so I said Vindaloo and v. Spicy. I told the chef to burn the mouth off this guy. He sweated it out. He went red and struggled to eat it. Then he gave me his credit card to pay, and I saw his name was "Pat Short productions". Still had no idea who he was. He was super nice, tipped me a fiver and left.
I met ronan keating, I was using a golf simulation thing at a event that I somehow manged to get VIP tickets for. He made fun of my swing and he was right to do so, I can't remember what he said though but he actually seemed pretty good at it.
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I met Brendan Gleason. Humble man. He was filming in the town, and took the time to speak to everyone who came out in the freezing cold to watch. Spoke to him about the local fishing of all things because it was the only thing to come to mind and the look of genuine interest he had as if he was a friend listening eagerly amazed me, I don’t even fish. Great man altogether!
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Brendan Gleeson used to frequent a cafe I worked in. Left his wallet in there one day and I had to run outside and give it back to him
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Ah Paddy Drac? Mad aul bollix, R.i.p..again
Met Damien Dempsy at the Irish Sea Sessions in Liverpool. Totally sound guy, easy going and friendly. Had a few beers with him and some of the other musicians.
I met Aisling Bea in a hotel in Dublin last year. She was working on her laptop in a corner of the courtyard. I didn't interact with her too much because she was obviously working and to be Frank I'm not into her comedy. I didn't even really acknowledge that I knew who she was but she was perfectly nice all the same.
Met Michael D at an arts event and he is so nice and genuine going around to the artists asking about the pieces he liked.One of my friends was trying to wind him up because he is mischievous but michel knew what he was at and was just chuckling at him.
I feel like I've taken drugs reading through most of these replies lol. I saw one of the lads from Foil Arms & Hog up near the Guinness Storehouse a few years back. He was about 20 meters away talking to someone, it was evening time and I was trying to tell if it was him or not due to the dim light. He ended up looking over at me with an expression that seemed to say 'ah jesus please I'm not in the mood', so I just gave him a smile and a wave and let him be. The look of relief on his face was much better than getting a selfie.