Pure ‘Mena! Liam’s gravelly voice is top of the phone pops

One in four people (25%) would like to hear the gravelly-voiced movie star on the line, confirming their very ‘taken’ with the borough’s new ‘Free man’.

One in five (19%) chose a chat with tv and radio presenter Graham Norton while one in 10 (nine per cent) said they would love to have a chat with Bono.

The research also found that we are still a nation of talkers, with three out of four of us calling our partner at least once a day. 88% call our mums and our best friends (79%) at least once a week.

Irish people think that texting is important in certain circumstances, like asking what’s for dinner, but nearly three quarters of us (73%) have received a text when we thought a call would have been better.

Text speak – including terms like LOL, l8r and btw – is confusing and annoying, but also very popular according to the research, with 64% of us having used ‘text speak.’

The online survey was conducted by Ignite Research on behalf of O2 in April 2013 with a nationally representative sample of 1,000 adults.