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15th Oct 2015

VIDEO: Irish best man spends 10 months creating the daddy of all celebrity best wishes wedding videos

He must be a really good mate

Conor Heneghan

Some amount of effort put into this.

Roping in celebrities to make a contribution to a wedding isn’t exactly a new thing, but one Irishman has raised the bar sky high in that regard.

Darren Byrne from Swords was asked to be best man at his good mate Darren Farrell’s wedding to Anna Carey in Portugal last month.

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Ten months out from the wedding, he began contacting a host of different celebrities on Twitter in an effort to get them to make a video contribution and even he surely couldn’t believe the amount of faces that agreed to help out.

You can see the list in full below, but amongst the celebrities to contribute from home and abroad were Gary Neville, Gary Lineker, Piers Morgan, Rob Kearney and Gordon D’Arcy, while Karl Pilkington stole the show with his cameo around the 9:35 mark.

It’s a long watch, but unless you’ve a connection to the happy couple feel free to skip the (fairly soppy) first three minutes or so until the celebrity contributions start.

Best men of Ireland, the bar has been raised.

Clip via Darren Byrne

Celebrity contributors

Gary Barlow

Gordon D’Arcy

Rob Kearney

Graeme McDowell

Sky Sports Soccer Saturday

Match of the Day – Gary Lineker

Gary Neville

Goals On Sunday – Chris Kamara and Ben Shepherd

Laurence Kinlan

Karl Pilkington

Dermot O’Leary

Jenifer Maguire

The Dan Band from Old School/The Hangover

Eamonn Holmes

Celebrity Juice – Holly & Keith

Mario Rosenstock

Piers Morgan

James Corden

Ryan Tubridy

Joe Duffy

Miriam O’Callaghan

Gay Byrne

George Hook

Newstalk Breakfast – Ivan and Chris

Peter Coonan