John Burns
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307 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Aug
John Burns’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Rolls off the tongue, yeah.
Yeah.
He persuaded the members quite quickly to call it Irish Nationwide Building Society, which is a far more ambitious and grandiose title.
Very inclusive as well.
I feel like whatever canty I'm in, I can go there.
Right, right, exactly.
The other little piece of happenstance, which he basically used to talk about, was that in Britain at that time, another building society became Nationwide.
And it had a huge advertising campaign, which would have been on TV and in British newspapers, which were very popular in Ireland at the time.
And you know how it is with people that don't make huge differentiation between advertising campaigns.
So people in the mid-70s were hearing nationwide, nationwide, nationwide.
It may have been the UK one, but a lot of people would have associated it with the Irish one.
And he credited that for giving Irish Nationwide Business Society a big leg up.
I once worked for a phone store that is no longer around.
And I had a very similar name to a major phone network that is still around.
And we would often have people coming in complaining about the network.
And we'd have to say, no, no, no, we're actually not them.
But it did sound the same.
And so I guess it can bring you like disgruntled customers or it can bring you lots of customers.
So whether he meant to or not, he was on to a winner.
Exactly.
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