Ireland's Greatest - Bono ?

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Didn't watch the programme as I don't believe he should be anywhere near the top 5, and this is one of the reasons why I take anything Bono does with a pinch of salt.

The non-profit One campaign received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed over only £118,000 to good causes.
Figures show that the group also spent more than £5.1million on executive and staff salaries.
One insisted that it was focused on lobbying, not funding charities.
The figures were published by the New York Post, which was one of several US newspapers to receive a host of expensive gifts including leather notebooks valued at £9.60, bags of coffee worth the same amount and £13 water bottles.
The presents were delivered separately in oversized shoe boxes to coincide with this week’s UN summit on the millennium development goals in Manhattan.
 
Fair play to him for always trying to champion good causes.

But I too have reservations about the celebrity ethos attached to many charities. I know they can be a means to an end to get the big corporate bucks, but I feel it introduces a huge danger of mismanagement and people losing sight of the actual underlying cause.

There is a saturation point in terms of how much people can give, and there's a real danger of creating a monster out of charitable organisations with chuggers, massive staff salaries and corporate events diverting large proportions of well intentioned funds away from those for whom it was intended in the first place.
 
its a ridiculous idea to ask people to vote on "the greatest irish person", it just shows how ignorant people are when these are top 5 selected, mary robinson and bono are ridiculous choices, only a historian with the knowledge to weigh up historical figures could truly evaluate it. how can bono trump eamon deValera or daniel o connel. Are people that thick they dont know basic history. how could daniel o connel whose statue crowns O Connel street be left out and whose statue was erected during colonial times
 
it should only have been greatest living irish person, as people are too thick, id say michael collins is only in it because of the holywood film
 
joe sod said:
its a ridiculous idea ... it just shows how ignorant people are ... mary robinson and bono are ridiculous choices, ... Are people that thick they dont know basic history. ...
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joe sod said:
it should only have been greatest living irish person, as people are too thick, ...
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OK, I'm convinced; some people are thick, ignorant and make ridiculous choices, the evidence is overwhelming.
joe sod said:
... id say michael collins is only in it because of the holywood film
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The one I saw was a French / Irish / British collaboration rather than a Hollywood production, which was pretty good as that sort of populist stuff goes, but then I'm too thick and ignorant to know the difference and it's ridiculous to expect me to.
 
Where was Brian Boru? O'Carolan? Daniel O'Connell? St Brendan? Any of the GAA founders? even Cuchailann!!!
It's a ridiculous programme
 
I rate the show's importance alongside the likes of
'Top Irish celebrity This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language of the year 2010'

Fanning should just propose to Bono and be done with it...
 
bren1916 said:
I rate the show's importance alongside the likes of
'Top Irish celebrity This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language of the year 2010'

Fanning should just propose to Bono and be done with it...
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Agree. The bro'mance is just a little OTT by now.

Time for Fanning to stop acting like a star struck teenager.
 
Not a bono fan, too smarmy. The whole thing is a ridiculous idea in the first place, who came up with it anyway.

The Cement Truck guy, what a man, wish I had been there to see the event unfold:)
 
Bono is a great entertainer. But, that's it, he is no more than another product in an ageing but good pop band.

Should he be in the Top 5 of the greatest Irish people? - No Way, Man!
 
Boner should be publicly evicted from Ireland, imo.

He's a smarmy, holier-than-thou, self serving git, who's more worried about his 'legacy' than of doing real good.

Having dinner with Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela are higher on his agenda than real aid.

It's unfortunate, as I think he could have done a lot of good if he didn't have such an ego, but sadly, it's like asking a tree not to be made of wood.
 
joe sod said:
its a ridiculous idea to ask people to vote on "the greatest irish person", it just shows how ignorant people are when these are top 5 selected, mary robinson and bono are ridiculous choices, only a historian with the knowledge to weigh up historical figures could truly evaluate it. how can bono trump eamon deValera or daniel o connel. Are people that thick they dont know basic history. how could daniel o connel whose statue crowns O Connel street be left out and whose statue was erected during colonial times
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Just because Mary Robinson is alive doesnt make her any less a fantastic representative of the Irish people. I think shes worthy of a top 5 spot.
Bono shouldnt be in there. Daniel O'Connell is worth a shout but Dev? C'mon....
 
Personally I think Bono, Michael Collins and John Hume should all be included in the top 5. Mary Robinson and James Connolly are very admirable indeed, but I wouldn't have them in that group. Daniel O'Connell is my number one choice, and I think that because he was omitted, the credibility of competition is considerably reduced.
 
I didn't see it but where did scientists Robert Boyle and John Tyndall come?
Then there’s Jonathan Swift, Thomas Moore, James Joyce and WB Yeats. Where are they on the list?

A few years ago there was a programme on British TV which was a competition about who the greatest Britain ever was. The fact that it wasn’t William Shakespeare (I think Brunel was chosen)just showed how ridiculous the whole thing was.
 
Wasn't it ironic how the man who spoke so eloquently last night on TV about a down and out socialist, who never had any money and who dedicated his life to trying to help the working man, earns €350,000 a year for sitting behind a mic chatting to radio listeners?

Connolly would turn over in his grave Joe !!!
 
RMCF said:
Wasn't it ironic how the man who spoke so eloquently last night on TV about a down and out socialist, who never had any money and who dedicated his life to trying to help the working man, earns €350,000 a year for sitting behind a mic chatting to radio listeners?

Connolly would turn over in his grave Joe !!!
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The real irony is that Joe has been FF's PR campaign for years now.
 
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