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08th Apr 2016

12 Irish celebrity names with occasionally hilarious anagrams

Garry Carroll

If you’re an absolute weirdo like myself, when you see words and names your brain automatically rearranges them into HILARIOUS ANAGRAMS.

In Limerick for instance, there’s a pub/small hotel at Punches Cross which reads “Snug” in stained glass on the windows, but from the outside I always read “Guns”. That just happens to be Limerick City as the saying goes.

Anyways, have an aul’ gawk below for some amazing facts that I bet you never ever knew before.

That’s right, 100%, legit, amazing facts.

1)  He will find you and he will spray your lion with semen.

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2) A lot of people don’t realise Brendan Gleeson was the synth player in avant-garde ’80s trio Neon Bagel Nerds… so we hear.

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3) In his Primary School days, Colin played a sickly dwarf in the Snow White Christmas play.

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4) Unlike the name Saoirse, Americans find Onions a lot easier to get their yankee mouths around.

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5) Sammy Mumba is a personal friend of Batman and has the inside story.

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6) We all have a soft spot for Daniel, but our soft spots are nowhere near as soft as the man himself… bless.

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7) If you have teenage spots, you’re not getting in.

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8) This name refers to Ryan’s younger days in school…

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9) The lads; well known for the plastic bags over their heads, lesser known for the bags on their nether regions.

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10) Um Bongo Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo. 

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11) The real reason Keano left the 2002 World Cup is simply because he was unorganised. He changed his Euros into Yen, the eejit. They don’t use Yen in Saipan.

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12) Georgie possibly had the most unfortunate of all the anagrams.

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