Stephen Gately

[Blue Man]

Just hearing he's been found dead. Source Sky News

[irishultra]

:eek: R.I.P

[luka]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/544219/Boyzone-star-Stephen-Gately-dies.html

[CF1989]

sad news. RIP

[Den Perry]

[QUOTE=CF1989;1247746]sad news. RIP[/QUOTE

Rest in peace

[Pauro 76]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir

in reply to this..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html

Absolutely disgraceful article by the Daily Mail. It didn't appear in the Irish version.. The Mail are getting an awful doing by the media over here, and rightly so. Appalling timing and I hope that columnist publishes an apology.

[gustavo]

yea I read that earlier and thought it was something that Chris Morris would come up with as a parody


oh 7,000th post :cool:

[bennocelt]

To be honest though it isnt normal for a 33 year old to die of natural causes, and I certainly thought this when I first heard this news.

A bit of the old Joe Dolan me thinks:cool:

[Lionel Ritchie]

Absolutely disgraceful article by the Daily Mail. It didn't appear in the Irish version.. The Mail are getting an awful doing by the media over here, and rightly so. Appalling timing and I hope that columnist publishes an apology.

Vulgar enough alright. An amount of it isn't even to do with Gately. Just a mix of latent and blatant homophobia hinting that gay people just aren't cut out for monogamy or "normal" relationships and behaviour.

On the other hand she does make one salient point when she observes ..."Consider the way it has been largely reported, as if Gately had gently keeled over at the age of 90 in the grounds of the Bide-a-Wee rest home while hoeing the sweet pea patch." -There does appear to have been an amount of haste to point out nothing unusual or illicit contributed to the death of an apparently healthy 33 year old.

Anyway, autopsy apparently cited fluid on the lungs. Might he just have been partying too hard, conked out, puked in his sleep and didn't spew any? Happens. So does SADS and whatever else I know.

[thischarmingman]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir

in reply to this..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html

Absolutely disgraceful article by the Daily Mail. It didn't appear in the Irish version.. The Mail are getting an awful doing by the media over here, and rightly so. Appalling timing and I hope that columnist publishes an apology.

And a parody of the Moir article here:

http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-moir-why-theres-nothing-natural.html

[thischarmingman]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6881055.ece

"There was no immediate response from the newspaper over the number of complaints but on Friday a spokesman for the newspaper said: “In the interest of free speech Mail Online is carrying comments both for and against her column but regrets the heavy-handed tactics by the campaign which is clearly being fanned by many people who haven’t even read Jan’s views.”"

Oh, the ironing!

[Ringo]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6881055.ece

"There was no immediate response from the newspaper over the number of complaints but on Friday a spokesman for the newspaper said: “In the interest of free speech Mail Online is carrying comments both for and against her column but regrets the heavy-handed tactics by the campaign which is clearly being fanned by many people who haven’t even read Jan’s views.”"

Oh, the ironing!

I see in yesterdays Irish Mail, they were moving very quickly to disrance themselves from the article. We have a different editor etc blah blah blah.