Taking over from the wonderful Noel Conroy is Garda Fachtna Murphy. An anagram of which is ‘Damp fraught anarchy’.
I wish it had been something like ‘Bunch of cunts’, but there you go.
What kind of a name is Fachtna anyway? Is there anybody born since 1950 called Fachtna? There must be loads of names that have died out over the years but I can’t think of any.
Ahem, Twenty Majors have not been sold since the 50s
I know a Fachtna. Like many of us he went off to England in the bad ol days to get work. He had to come back quicksharp. Him and Chonchubair. Cant think why.
Judas and Jezebel have fallen from favour.
And Lolita too.
Lolita Spiceburger – yay!
Was in Q bar one time and seen this intimatdatingly good looking girl about 19 or 20, wearing a low cut top and short skirt, fish net tights, and boots! Got talking with her later on. She told me her name was Nora!
I was born in 1950 , I grew up in crumlin d.12 anyone called Fachtna ,Conal ,Cedric or any dodgy names like those were fair game for a 20 minute kicking. If you were foolish enough to pronounce two consecutive words correctly , you were also in the danger zone.
Jesus of Nazareth is nowhere near as popular as it used to be
Nah Twenty tis the other way around. Names like Fachtna are even more popular now in my parents are richer than yow ROCK style childer. Its the Marys, Johns and emm Noras that are suffering.
Adolf doesn’t seem to be too popular nowadays
I believe that Fachtna was how they traditionally pronounced Finbar west of the Shannon due to the prevalence of cleft pallets. It eventually just became part of the local lexicon, especially amongst first cousins.
National Disgrace, you obviously don’t have many Mexican friends.
In Germany i’ve noticed they still have strange old-fashioned sounding names like Norbert or Benedicte (female name).
Whatever happened to Cuthbert?
the name Gráinne should die a death.
despite Seoige making it slightly more acceptable, it usually just conjours up images of ‘mad’ camogie players with freckles, snot dribbles and an extra chromasome.
Same as Oonagh.
hehe , grainne is fairly hideous, isn’t it very close to the word ugly in Irish?
I like caoimhe … probably depends on who you know with the name though….
Twenty, I’ll see your Fachtna and raise you….Gobnait.
You have got to love Concepta – named asked the miracle of the Virgin Mary, what more could you ask for.
Fachtna is mainly used as a surname these days… Like that guy Conor from AA Roadwatch… I think it roughly translates as “he who takes up a lot of airtime on the radio….not quite as much time as traffic reports, but still quite a bit all the same”.
Maolconaire. Aoirghe. Lasairfhiona.
Mike, as first name for someone called Hunt.
Assumpta is up there with Concepta…
Haven’t met too many Fannys either…
People with surnames for first names don’t seem as common. I knew two blokes called Coleman.
the surname Cox is always good for a giggle.
Dympna Cox. now there would be a class Irish pornstar name.
I have met loads of fannys, mainly late in the evening coming into the pub and spouting pish.
Enda sounds like a girls name , and means birdlike or
“poor alternative to thieving shyster”
I dunno , I think the name coleman is bleedin mustard
Dusting off the old jokes, Kev?
I prefer the add water version
Ryan is sweeping the nation though. They’re just different surnames as first names these days.
I’d say if you joined the Dom Marmion you’d come across a few names that have gone out of common usage… it’d also get you out of the house.
Coleman? Is he mustard ?
ryan ryan , ryan o’ryan , ryan mc ryan , ryan fitzryan , ryan de ryan , ryan van ryan , ryan von ryan , ryan rys ryan , ryan rynair ryan
Lung – There’s Mexicans called ‘Jesus of Nazareth’??
FACHTNA (Foktna) – Fantasius, Festus
Yeah, wouldn’t it be scary to be trapped in an interrogation cell with a cop named Fantasius?
I’ve always thought that Feilim and Proinnsias sounded either like some form of glandular disease or like a pair of cunts you might meet in a Gaeltacht.
good Fantasius , bad Fantasius
I knew a guy named Russell Hobbs!
My sister is called Consumpta, reason being, she caught Phthisis pulmonasis, from riding farmers sons in cattle sheds where the cows had TB, and riding GAA reserve goalkeepers in and around Badger sets!
ND – There has to be a Mexican out there called Jesús de Nazaret González del Octavo Retrete. Although I’ll have to ask my gardener to be sure.
hehe. i had to look up Phthisis pulmonasis mind you.
Bertram, that’s gone by the wayside-thank Christ! As have Theodore, Wendy, Henry and (unfortunatly) Marjorie. However, we need more Magdas. It’s always fun with a Magda around.
Attracta is pretty horrific. Met a girl called Attracta, crap in bed but my could she plough a field!
Torquil
cool, i didn’t know that attracta was a real name.
I can add it to my list of tractor-based jokes.
Regina.
I knew a bloke once called Fucksie O’Toole from Cabra
My old housemate was called Jesus. Before he moved in we couldn’t think of enough jokes. He was Spanish though, not Mexican. But in the end we just omitted the je-part of his name. He preferred that more.
We’re all facht na.
Turlough
This picture reminded me of ‘Couched’ with Barry Murhpy and David O’Doherty.
“Tonight on Bastards:”
http://www.garda.ie/angarda/images/fachtnamurphy.jpg
I always thought Dervla sounded like an onomatopoeiac description of somebody vomitting.
There was also a lad from Termonfeckin I knew who was named after the same saint that the village is named after. Unfortunately his second name was Rath, making him Fechin Rath. I shit you not, now has anybody seen that feckin rat anywhere.
Uh no, not another Fachtna – the world’s so full of them already.
Is Ghenghis still on the Irish Times list?
Just behind ‘Jack’.
Santa Claus… don’t know if it ever was a real name though…
Ambrose, Iggy and Pious always popular with the GAA set
Thomas de Torquemada, now I could have been called that & probably loved it, but me da was Mick Murphy, in a fit of mind-blowing banality, he called me John, the rest of ye can call me Torq, or if thats a wrench, bleeding Spud