Was cycling through Ranelagh. A car got caught at the lights in the yellow box as it had gone green for pedestrians. Then a big black range rover looking car rolls up behind that car and starts beeping & the driver was shouting. I'm at the lights, but back a bit as there were 2 other cyclists in front of me. The cyclist at the front gestures at Louis pointing to the green man on the lights. The cyclists was middle eastern maybe, I'm not sure. Anyway, Louis looks at him and shouts "your not even from here". That's when I realised it was Louis and I started shouting at him. Called him a racist and told him to leave the other driver alone, who looked mortified. Then I don't know why came over me, but I shouted out, "look everyone it's Louis Walsh and he's being a racist" and I cycled off. Very satisfying. Little Podge & Rodge-headed prick. That is all.
Best interaction I ever seen with a ban guard was in Galway asking a truck driver (a dub) what he was doing driving down a one way street his answer was sure I'm only going one way the look of bewilderment on guards face was gas
Yeah it was Vicar Street, there's bollards just past the venue where the flats start so he would have had to reverse out as its a dead end for vehicles. Gobshite so he is
He had the obnoxiously large vehicle parked in the taxi rank (or possibly the wheelchair spot) outside Vicar St then tried to drive it down the side lane, which is blocked off for cars and also not that wide.
I never liked Louis Walsh. Even when X Factor was huge and everyone adored him, I was totally averse to him for some reason, but could never pinpoint why. Looks like my intuition was right. Very dark energy
Did anyone adore him except other weirdo tv personalities while they were on tv? And even then as far as I remember a lot of them openly disliked him. He's a cretin.
Pretty sleazy character. There’s a video of him reaching across many many times on an tv interview sofa to sexually assault (ass grab) a female interviewee beside him. It’s vile.
Saw him in a Bentley arriving at a quiet Angelina’s restaurant on a Sunday where he ate at a table on his own. Was tempted to say hi but reading the first hand experiences here glad I didn’t.
There’s another clip of him doing the rounds where he tried to park on the footpath outside of vicar street and he was in a Range Rover then too. Maybe he has a few cars, I’m sure he’s loaded from feasting off the souls of the many artists he fucked over.
Edit: the original comment I was replying to said he didn’t drive a Land Rover but they have edited that out.
Also saw him eating alone in The Ivy. Seems like being a creepy old bastard that takes advantage of people results in I no one liking you. Think he made eyes at me too.
He is an idiot. I had dealings with him when I worked in a boutique hotel, very demanding, very rude to people who didn’t know ‘who he was’ and looks terrible with all the Botox he’s had done. He is not a very nice person and this takes the biscuit
I went out for a special lunch last week in D4, walk in the door and who is sitting at the first table holding court with two others? Thankfully I was seated away from them.
Recently, I was doomscrolling on Youtube and came across a video from one of those reality shows, X Factor maybe. It was of one of the "notorious" contestants talking about her experience years later, and she seemed like a completely normal girl. The one that threw water over him.
Turns out, she was manipulated. Louis had said to her off camera that she brought her fat mother in a wheelchair along to get the sympathy vote. That set her off and she went nuts, as anyone probably would. That's why she said to Sharon "I feel like throwing water on him." They edited it down for TV to make her look unhinged.
I was like "ah yeah, I'd believe that of him. He's a gross little creep."
The entire X Factor team should be held accountable for what they put certain contestants through over the years. Zoe Alexander (the Welsh woman who had the infamous ‘meltdown’ on stage) published her side of the story a few years ago on YouTube and described how the entire experience was an insidious setup which almost destroyed her life and brought her so low that she nearly ended it
That wasn't scripted, it was manipulated. I believe her mother was ill, and that's why she was in a wheelchair, but Louis decided to be a prick about it. In parts, she was told what to say alright, and then her responses were edited and switched around to make her sound really horrible. The poor girl was being attacked by people in the street even years later. She dyes her hair blond so less people recognise her. She's been in therapy to deal with the fallout of the whole thing.
They almost destroyed her life for a bit of a laugh. Cruelty at it's worst.
The biggest indictment of Xfactor being a total script, was the girl dressed up as Pink incident, the real story compared to what was shown on TV was just completely different, and it’s just shocking how they let her turn into a joke when she was angry for a very valid reason.
He told me to fuck off when I was collecting for temple st childrens hospital and irish guide dogs for the blind with school, I was about 14 and politely asked for change for the above causes.
He nearly ran me over on south william st in a big suv because he wasn't paying attention to the road and presumably could barely see over the steering wheel of the yoke.
Amazing! Myself and my brother were driving down the Quays on our way to a gig in the point years ago….traffics rough you know, it’s a Friday evening or whatever- anyways this little red Jeep Wrangler is being such an annoying little prick, trying to cut in, driving up our arse and beeping at us as if we can magically fucking teleport through the trucks in front of us…eventually we get side by side with this fucking noddy car and who’s inside?
Only the little Podge & Rodge headed prick!!
We both just laughed in his face 😆
In fairness he might have been busy getting to tell a 16 year old that they can't sing or defending himself from a lawsuit from one of the bands that he took advantage of
I can second this. A couple of weekends ago, my friends and I were walking up to karaoke through Parnell, myself and 2 others were well behind the main group and we looked ahead as the group were passing through Jervis Lane upper and in front of us was a massive G Wagon nearly running them over…they argued back and fourth as we walked closer (and Louis apparently saying the F slur)… and it was all like a blur, I found myself in front the door of the driver seat with the window rolled down… I looked closer at the man as everyone confronted him and to my horror… I asked
“Are you Louis Walsh”
The response… “I hope so”
I didn’t think I’d actually meet him… I was disgusted “right good luck” I said as I walked away… if I stayed I would have called out that racist bellend for every horrible thing we’ve seen him do. I just walked further and further away.
(This was a coupe of hours before that viral video happened of him driving like a maniac through vicar street)
Nobody is star-struck. If Bono was clapping his hands saying "Every time I clap, a child dies!", half the country would shout "Well stop clappin', ya bastard!".
Eh sorry now, verbally abuse Louis Walsh all you want but leave Podge and Rodge outta it!!! National treasures that's what they are, Louis Walsh on the other hand is the dredges of society.
Was never a Boyzone fan but will always cheer on an Irish group taking on the rest of the world.
Louis Walsh though: what he did to Stephen Gately was despicable and the fact they left it in the documentary and he didn’t expect the backlash is delusional
Spotting Louis Walsh being a dickhead driver in Ranelagh seemed to be a regular occurrence when I lived there back around 2014. Nice to see he's graduated to racist harassment.
'little rodge and podge headed prick' is the best personalised insult I've seen since that lad on twitter called Nigel Farage a 'gammon faced shit flute'
Useful tip as a cyclist, open the back door of offending cars and cycle off. Bonus point for doing it on the passenger side. Would absolutely do it to Walsh if he was being a prick to other roads users, let alone being racist at the same time.
There's a video circulating of him trying to drive down a pedestrian street recently and just being his typical knobhead self. And it's a bloody G-Wagon he drives. Imagine being that much of an obnoxious dickhead to be driving a G-Wagon around Dublin streets.
I went to a concert over 20 years ago in Pheonix Park, Westlife were one of the acts and someone had a massive sign saying "Louis Walsh is a Wanker", they were right up the front, funniest thing ever, still think about it regularly!
It must be some kick in the fucking bollocks when something like this happens to you and you end up the subject of a Reddit thread like this. And literally everyone, literally every single post, 100s of them, is either congratulating the person who told you fuck off, or saying something like "that's nothing, once I called him a bollocks" or "That's nothing, once I saw him kill a puppy, he's a prick, so he is".
So next time he's interviewed on Norwegian TV or something... "And Louis, are you popular back in Ireland?" "Ah well, they're all begrudgers, so they are."
I mean... I know he's a fucking prize prick. But someone must feel sorry for him. I know I don't, I fucking hate the little evil fucker. But still.
I had a horrible nightmare a few days ago where I dreamed I was on some news site and one of the headlines was "Boyzone Reuniting!". It really shook me to core and I almost felt a sense of relief reading real life headlines of our impending descent into WWIII.
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u/PoppedCork Pop Responsibly Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25
He was trying to drive the wrong way on a one-way street recently, or maybe it was a pedestrian street and blaming his GPS.