Talk:Dara Ó Briain

message: The start of the Stand-up comedy section says "Ó Briain's stand up international career took off around this time as he began to tour heavily" but the exact meaning of 'around this time' seems to have lost its context. Does it refer back to the 1998-2000 timescale of his TV appearance mentioned a few paragraphs earlier? It could do with an edit by someone who can clarify it. Tedmarynicz (talk) 10:29, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date is unclear 

message: has added "It is reported.." to the beginning of a sentence. This is obvious, since if it hadn't been reported, we would be unable to include the content here. What worries me more is that using wording such as that implies, per WP:NPOV, that although it is reported, it may not be true. Per policy on biographies, that is unacceptable, and that is why I bring this issue here for discussion. Rodhullandemu 16:08, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: And its inclusion would seem to be contrary to the tenor of the third opinion above. Psystat, we've been to dispute resolution already over this; it's up to you to take it further, per WP:BURDEN. Meanwhile, any editor, subject to WP:3RR may remove material that does not have consensus. Rodhullandemu 16:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

text: I think it important to report O'Brian's reaction, otherwise the inference could easily be drawn that he really didn't care that much. Rodhullandemu 17:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

text: Without comment on the content, I remark 10 years later that at present the paragraph is totally unsourced—anything contentious particularly needs sources. Pol098 (talk) 13:50, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The greyhound thing again 

message: I claim no expertise on Irish pronunciation, but the IPA transcription [ˈbʲɾʲriənʲ], with a tapped r immediately followed by a trilled r, looks unlikely, and I can find no basis for the distinction in Irish phonology. I'm removing the trilled r as an error, but please correct further if you are an expert in the field. Vilĉjo (talk) 00:13, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: I suspect his comment that "I simply don’t believe in God. But I’m still Catholic, of course" - is probably a joke that he made, rather than his real opinion. If you see what I mean. Lionfish0 (talk) 22:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he was being tongue in cheek about being ethnically catholic. IRWolfie- (talk) 22:12, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic 

message: According to the article, his fourth tour in 2007 was almost entitled "You had to be there". This is wrong, as he specifically used this line on his 2008 tour, and it appears on the "Talks Funny: Live in London" DVD. In addition, I haven't been able to find further information on a 2007 tour, so I'm sure the user editing the article got the date confused. Unless anyone objects, I'd like to change the date to 2007 --86.31.61.220 (talk) 00:24, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dara's tour in 2007? 

message: A source for the science programme that he will be presenting on BBC Two is available at: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zxmqj   ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:51, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Source for science programme

message: English matters more than Irish. 99.238.74.216 (talk) 00:23, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: This article could put in that he has presented a programme on BBC Two called "Family Brain Game". Vorbee (talk) 19:31, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Family Brain Game

message: Is there a source for his wife's name as Susan Ó Briain?
In Irish it should be Susan (bean) Uí Bhriain, as a married woman takes the genitive form of her husband's name, and not 'Ó Briain', as Dara's is.
Dara has been very vocal about his history with the Irish language, so it seems very strange that his wife's name is listed, uncited, with an unusual (ungrammatical) form.177.194.178.151 (talk) 14:40, 13 July 2020 (UTC
:There is a Dr. Susan O'Briain at Susan O'Briain Clinic London. I don't know whether it's the same person—sounds like it. It would seem normal for a couple living in Britain to use British name conventions. Pol098 (talk) 14:02, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wife's name?