This year’s competition to find Ireland’s most unromantic man is up and running but we’re not sure that this year’s winner will be able to out-do last year’s entrants.
One of the most shockingly unromantic men from last year’s contest was shortlisted Eugene Shephard from County Kilkenny who gave his wife a grave plot as a Christmas present.
Each year the winner of the MostUnromanticMan.ie wins a one week trip to Cyprus home of the godess of love Aphrodite. On a positive note, one of the conditions of the prize is that the long suffering partners of the men must get to go on vacation as well.
Shephard defended his morbid gift as a "Christmas gift that lasts forever is... a grave.” He was nominated by his wife Bernie Shephard.
Another man who made it to the short list is Michael Kidd, 24, from Dublin City, who has vowed “never to buy his fiancée a card or flowers — not even for her funeral,” according to reports in the Irish Examiner. He was nominated by his fiancée Karen Alves.
Jana Langova nominated her boyfriend, 25-year-old Anthony Doyle, after he forgot her birthday for the second year in a row and bought her a car battery for Christmas.
Another Casanova worthy of nomination was Niall Dillion, 30, from Co. Westmeath, who likes to take his wife to the cattle mart for a sausage sandwich as a Valentine’s Day treat. Dillion was also nominated by his wife Christa.
It’s hard to see how people can be less romantic than this bunch but it will remain to be seen as the results are revealed.
Do you have an unromantic man in your life? Share your stories with us below.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Madeliene | Mar 13, 2012, 03:11 PM EDT
ah the funeral plot seems kind of sweet to me
Madeliene | Mar 13, 2012, 03:08 PM EDT
NYC firedog LOVED IT thanks for the laughhh I LOVE Irish jokes ( but this one is darn closr to home! LOLOL
Maire | Mar 04, 2012, 12:27 PM EST
I am married to a someone who has, in 5 years, given me only ONE present or card of any description (2 Michael Buble CDs last Christmas, which looked second hand to me as they had no plastic covering around them). My latest birthday was two days ago, and all I got was a "Happy Birthday" greeting. I know of nobody as unromantic as him!
billie061 | Mar 04, 2012, 06:00 AM EST
My ex-husband gave me a roasting tray for our 20th anniversary, and he still wonders why I divorced him.
ciaradexy | Mar 03, 2012, 03:49 PM EST
Lovely! Well I got a brand new Nissan qashqai from my other half!
NYCFiredog | Mar 03, 2012, 01:19 PM EST
The one that got the grave for Christmas may want to stay on that Island and whatever you do, don't go home. Calling Dr Freud, Dr Jung.
NYCFiredog | Mar 03, 2012, 01:16 PM EST
This is one of the funniest pieces I've ever read. It reminds me of the joke: What's the definition of Irish foreplay? "Brace yerself Brigid!".
ANDYSPOT | Mar 03, 2012, 11:29 AM EST
Very sad but my parents asked my brother, sister and myself to purchase a grave plot several years ago for christmas. We did, had a laugh about it.They there was a sale going on. Sorry to say my father is getting very use out the plot...
Curitiba | Mar 03, 2012, 09:20 AM EST
A grave plot? Who said romance was dead, eh?