Who will be the great immortal - Heaney, John B, or Raffles?

I HAVE a question: will Raffles, the gentleman thief, outlast our Nobel Prize winning poet, Seamus Heaney?

In attempting to answer I must indulge in some digression.

You will remember the one-time RTÉ presenter Mike Murphy, he of Yowsa Yowsa Yowsa fame, who at one point reinvented himself as patron and critic of the arts.