Who Should Be Immortalised On Irish Euro Notes Next?

NORMALLY the purview of faceless suits working in some lesser known and clandestine government agency, the task of deciding the next group of people to be immortalised on Irish euro notes will now fall to the Irish public.

As always, the government has decided that WWN readers best represent a cross-section of the Irish people and therefore can be relied on to choose the lucky figure.

With so many deserving Irish people who have made an indelible mark on the world, it was hard to narrow down these contenders, but we tried our best:

One of Jedward. There isn’t room for multiple people on a note so they’ll have to fight for it. Each Jedwardian will be given a choice of weapon; either a leg or arm they can rip off Louis Walsh.

In the year of an Olympics it would be fitting to give a nod to Irish Olympians on a new note. What was the name of Cian O’Connor’s horse that did drugs? Kilkenny! That’s it.

A woman. Only one, sorry. And it’ll be the fiver. But look it, celebrate your victories rather than bore people with your moaning about systemic and historic equality.

We were wracking our brains there, not many female contenders is there? Is one of President Higgins’ dogs female? Misneach?

Mayo woman Maureen Sweeney who forecast an approaching storm from a lighthouse in An Fód Dubh in 1944, which changed the timing of the D-Day landings and ultimately secured victory for the Allies. Boring.

Without wanting to be accused of recency bias, and ignoring far more deserving candidates, what about the lad Irish from that meme yesterday, ah y’know it he was pure gas.

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