Rubbish series, considering what they could have done with it, but its one benefit may be to shut those up on these boards who continually harp on about nobody in the south liking Hume!

Wouldn't be my choice, but he's certainly up there. A wonderful man.

abhainn (Galway) - Posts: 1000 - 23/10/2010 14:28:02    802318

A least Bono didnt get it!!

dammon (Meath) - Posts: 1291 - 23/10/2010 14:57:49    802328

Mary Robinson should have got it but don't mind John Hume as he is a worthy champion of civil rights at home.

fortyfive (Tyrone) - Posts: 5929 - 23/10/2010 15:05:20    802334

Voted for Connolly myself. Don't think any of the rest of them come up to him in terms of historical importance. But Hume way ahead of Bono and Robinson, definitely.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 23/10/2010 16:43:06    802367

Give him the Presidency by agreement and no need for an election

N16Calling (UK) - Posts: 260 - 23/10/2010 20:06:57    802457

i doubt he'd touch the presidency. he was asked before and said no. He'd make a great president though. Worthy winner. The show was ridiculous but kinda compulsive viewing. Obviously no beckett, yeats, joyce, wilde etc plus no one born before the mid 1800s. So many more deserved to be mentioned.

hurlinspuds (Cork) - Posts: 1494 - 23/10/2010 20:59:10    802489

Not the best choice but not the worst other .

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 23/10/2010 21:01:17    802492

What a waste of TV licence payers money.

squidword (Louth) - Posts: 2897 - 23/10/2010 21:55:29    802562

Daniel O'Connell was the greatest Irishman of all time !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 24/10/2010 14:14:31    802650

a joke, a pointless programme, another waist of money in making it.

lookback (Kerry) - Posts: 185 - 24/10/2010 14:14:43    802652

Arthur Griffith had a right to be included in the top 5. But then for some reason, we tend to blot him out of our history, and Im at a loss as to explain why.

Scruffy2Donut (Cavan) - Posts: 1112 - 24/10/2010 14:29:43    802657

Your wrong Scruffy!, He does get the credt he deserves. He was a Greater Irishman than Bono but his achievements were not the same as Collins, Hume or even Connolly

laflour (Cavan) - Posts: 528 - 24/10/2010 14:37:49    802663

Bono should have won it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know he avoids paying tax here, whilst lecturing the government on how they should be giving more of the taxpayers cash to Third World dictatorships, but you know, he's a legend!

Seamus89 (Kilkenny) - Posts: 3848 - 24/10/2010 15:19:07    802675

laflour
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Your wrong Scruffy!, He does get the credt he deserves. He was a Greater Irishman than Bono but his achievements were not the same as Collins, Hume or even Connolly

Tell you what laflour, we'll ask professor Ferriter next week about Arthur Griffith. He'll tell you exactly what I've just said.

Scruffy2Donut (Cavan) - Posts: 1112 - 24/10/2010 15:33:49    802679

I wonder is Ulsterman eating humble pie by being proven wrong once again???

3inarow08 (Kerry) - Posts: 2455 - 24/10/2010 16:00:39    802696

or i could get him on the phone for you now to spare you the public embarresment.

laflour (Cavan) - Posts: 528 - 24/10/2010 16:03:24    802698

Proven wrong 2inarow?? Please explain?

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9818 - 24/10/2010 16:10:55    802706

Ferriter?! This the same Ferriter that allowed his book to be bought on behalf of the government to every primary school in the country? An individual that has no interest in being a professional historian, merely a popular one.

Griffith was a great man, to be sure, but the SF he founded had no relation to any subsequent incarnation of it. He advocated dual monarchy, which nobody would like now, he advocated a reserved response to the land issue, which nobody found popular at the time. He could not carry enough men with him in his own lifetime, or after, and therefore should not be considered one of the greatest ever.

abhainn (Galway) - Posts: 1000 - 24/10/2010 17:00:47    802747

didnt watch any of it so cant comment on whether it was good or not but glad that musician didnt win it

b.mullins (Dublin) - Posts: 1413 - 24/10/2010 21:11:55    802923

john hume has a inner strengh and determination , that brought a lot of people back from the brink , he got a lot of flack as well , the man deserves nothing but praise , so well done . but i will concour with sruffy2donut , cathal brugha has a big place in my heart .

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 25/10/2010 20:54:49    803365