So farewell then...

**BonnieShels** · 21/01/2013, 2:43 PM

Wow!!!

**Spudulika** · 21/01/2013, 8:24 PM

Shocking, he was only 77! For some reason I thought he was ancient. A really odd character but somehow likeable.

**the 12 th man** · 22/01/2013, 9:59 AM

He was never the same after taking bad from eating an oyster and contacting an exotic disease a few years back which hung around him til he died.

**BonnieShels** · 24/01/2013, 12:27 PM

Dolours Price, 61
Old Bailey bomber

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0124/364...-dies-aged-61/

Boston College... the floor is open...

**BonnieShels** · 25/01/2013, 3:35 PM

Just hearing that Kevin "Heffo" Heffernan (83), legendary Dublin manager has passed away.

Truly sad loss.

Ar dheis De go raibh h-anam.

EDIT: Just updated on RTE.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football...vin-heffernan/

**stann** · 18/02/2013, 12:51 PM

Richard Briers, yesterday.

The Good Life was, erm, good and all, but you couldn't not like Ever Decreasing Circles.
Very good actor though, I remember an excellent turn as an unexpectedly really nasty piece of work in Morse.

**the 12 th man** · 18/02/2013, 2:37 PM

Briers freely admitted that the fags are what were going to kill him.

**OwlsFan** · 25/02/2013, 10:27 AM

Only saw at the weekend when reading the Sunday Indo obits (as opposed to looking at the bottom of the Championship Table), that Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin died. The voice of GAA for over 50 years and was even broadcasting on RTE Radio until he was 87! The Bruce Forsyth of RTE ? Perhaps not but certainly was one of the media's main man for the GAA.

**stann** · 25/02/2013, 12:52 PM

Con Martin, aged 89.
Absolute legend, when that word is bandied about far too lightly these days, of the Irish game.
Played at Drums, Dundalk, wore the blue shirt from 1956-59, and managed Shels after. Played for Leeds and Villa, and both Ireland and the North. Mentioned in a Dubliners song even!

**BonnieShels** · 28/02/2013, 10:01 AM

Still hard to believe he's gone. 15 years today. RIP Dermot.

Only famous person whose death actually shook me when I heard Dave Fanning announce it on 2TV.

**SkStu** · 05/03/2013, 9:35 PM

Hugo Chavez RIP

**BonnieShels** · 05/03/2013, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

Hugo Chavez RIP

Serious this time? Or are you North Americans spreading fierce rumours?

**SkStu** · 05/03/2013, 11:01 PM

Next time I see you, you're dead...

**BonnieShels** · 05/03/2013, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

Next time I see you, you're dead...

Well at least get me a Pil before you stab me with an umbrella.

**gastric** · 05/03/2013, 11:21 PM

RIP , the both of you.

**nigel-harps1954** · 07/03/2013, 4:32 PM

Guitarist Alvin Lee from Ten Years After. RIP

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking30.html

**the 12 th man** · 11/03/2013, 2:15 PM

Commentator Tony Gubba http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...caster-1756292

**OwlsFan** · 19/03/2013, 9:44 AM

Frank Thornton, aka Captain Peacock from Are You Being Served.

Also missed over Christmas that Tony Greig, cricket commentator and former player died of a heart attack.

**Seagull** · 20/03/2013, 11:42 PM

James Herbert Dead: Horror Author Dies At 69. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2917589.html
The Rats scared the sh1t out of me many years ago. R.I.P.

**Seagull** · 29/03/2013, 1:11 PM

Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) R.I.P http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21973505
But it was his role as the predatory Uncle Monty in Withnail And I - which has become of one of the biggest cult classics in British cinema history - which made him a fan favourite.

In a message to his co-star on Twitter, the actor Richard E. Grant said: "My beloved Uncle Monty Richard Griffiths died last night. Chin-Chin my dear friend.