So farewell then...

[Lionel Ritchie]

Fred Titmus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Titmus) cricketer, cricketeer, cricket player, bloke what played cricket

kWfmDIiax_8

[juan]

Elizabeth Taylor has passed away at the age of 79.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12833100

[OwlsFan]

http://www.perfume-reviews-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/elizabeth-taylor-new-perfume.jpg

Never warmed to her. Always seemed to have whiney parts with no humour. Perhaps that's why she had 8 husbands. She had a nice asp though.

[pineapple stu]

Dorothy Young (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_DOROTHY_YOUNG?SITE=OHCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT), the last surviving stage assistant of Harry Houdini, who has died aged 103 on Houdini's 137th birthday.

Amazing the kind of living history that's still out there.

[horton]

Just heard on the radio Eddie Stobart has died? he of his family haulage company of the same name fame.

[Mr A]

They recently took over Aer Arann too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12923203

[dcfc_1928]

Thank you - when Fred Titmus died, I was trying to figure out why his name sounded familiar.

It has been years since I heard that song.


Fred Titmus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Titmus) cricketer, cricketeer, cricket player, bloke what played cricket

kWfmDIiax_8

[dahamsta]

They recently took over Aer Arann too.

I did not know that. Only a "small stake (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/1012/1224280877528.html)" though, apparently.

I'm not mad about seeing the Stobart trucks in Ireland, I'd say they undercut the feck out of the likes of Nolan; you'd wonder if they're taking any margin at all on it.

(Yes, I'm a capitalist that things below-cost selling is wrong. Shoot me.)

[Seagull]

John Sullivan, who wrote one of the best-loved British sitcoms, Only Fools and Horses, has died at the age of 64. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13176198

[thischarmingman]

Poly Styrene:

Punk singer Poly Styrene, former singer with the band X Ray Spex, has died. She had been suffering from cancer.

She became one of the first female punk icons after releasing the influential Germ Free Adolescents album in 1978.

BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-13193968)

Interviewed just last month in The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/23/poly-styrene-interview)

[Eminence Grise]

Whispering Ted Lowe's microphone falls silent for the last time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lowe

[Eminence Grise]

And now Henry Cooper too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/13256045.stm

[Magicme]

and Osama Bin Laden Bin Laden Dead (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/US-President-Barack-Obama-Announces/Article/201105115983545?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15983545_US_President_Barack_Obama_Ann ounces)

[bennocelt]

RIP Bin Laden

[tetsujin1979]

rumours that Richie Kavanagh of "aon focal eile" has passed on

[Magicme]

Seems Richie Kavanagh has sang his last cupla focal too.

Hey Tets, that wasnt there when I posted mine! Then it was! Dam you.

[horton]

Has he? I can't find anything online about it other than a rumour on Boards and Wikipedia(which has since been removed). Where'd ya find out?

[tetsujin1979]

could be a hoax?

[OwlsFan]

Seems Richie Kavanagh has sang his last cupla focal too.

Hey Tets, that wasnt there when I posted mine! Then it was! Dam you.

I heard something about that story on Tubridy this morning as being untrue.

[Seagull]

I heard something about that story on Tubridy this morning as being untrue.

Wikipedia now says 'On May 2nd 2011, Kavanagh was subject of an elaborate hoax, a very elaborate hoax where somebody claimed he had suffered a fatal heart-attack whilst sprinting up the Suger Loaf.' :D

[BonnieShels]

Gerald Smith, bass player of TV on the Radio has died of Lung cancer aged 36.
Mate in work mentioned this today that be died last week. Shocked is not the word.

http://rollingstone.tumblr.com/post/4814637756/bass-player-for-the-band-tv-on-the-radio-gerard

[dcfc_1928]

Jackie Cooper - aka Perry White (editor of the Daily Planet) in the Superman movies.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/05/article-1383690-0BE8A9C400000578-41_306x449.jpg

[OwlsFan]

Harry Thuillier (probably not known to many of you):

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/tile/2011/0430/1224295760280_1.jpg?ts=1304600854

Olympic fencing star and broadcaster:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2011/0430/1224295760280.html

[sligoman]

The last known survivor of the 1st World War, Claude Stanley Choules, died aged 110. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Worlds-Oldest-World-War-One-Combat-Veteran-Claude-Stanley-Choules-Dies-At-Age-110-In-Australia/Article/201105115985689?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_A rticle_Teaser_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15985689_Worlds_Oldest_World_War_One_C ombat_Veteran_Claude_Stanley_Choules_Dies_At_Age_1 10_In_Australia)

[horton]

Not completely the last service member, I think there is some Brit still alive who was in the Womans RAF. Horrible to think that entire generation is pretty much gone now:(

[Seagull]

Not completely the last service member, I think there is some Brit still alive who was in the Womans RAF. Horrible to think that entire generation is pretty much gone now:(

He was the last combat veteran of WW1. Another Briton, Florence Green - who turned 110 in February and was a waitress in the Women's Royal Air Force - is now thought to be the world's last known surviving service member of WWI. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13289607 Sends a shiver up the spine alright.

[Eminence Grise]

Harry Thuillier (probably not known to many of you):

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/tile/2011/0430/1224295760280_1.jpg?ts=1304600854

Olympic fencing star and broadcaster:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2011/0430/1224295760280.html

Never met the man personally, but in my youth I heroically failed for four years in a row to win the Harry Thuillier Cup for Best Men's Foilist in DU Fencing Club! He was held in awe by every fencer I met, and many I knew who had fenced with him - even Olympians - spoke of him with admiration and near-reverence.

[stann]

Seve Ballesteros (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/may/07/seve-ballesteros-golf-passes-away) :(
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/all-things-golf/assets_c/2010/06/seve-thumb-400x300-155921.jpg
Really knocked by the news this morn. A true genius, and a very sad passing at only 54.
Transcended his own discipline to become, like Ali, Best or McEnroe, one of the legends of sport. RIP Seve.

[Spudulika]

Bad time for sports. The great Lionel Rose, World Champ and Australian Man of the Year at 20 and finished by 22 (I cannot remember who said it but it was quoted in his biopic) and the first Aboriginal to be both. Unlike many boxers of his and other generations he looked after himself and earned well. I had the honour to meet him many, many years ago at a show in Manchester and was surprised by how humble he was.

[OwlsFan]

Actress Dana Wynter

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2011/126/69461988_130482486069.jpg

Appeared in such films as Sink the Bismarck, D-Day and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[drummerboy]

Actress Dana Wynter

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2011/126/69461988_130482486069.jpg

Appeared in such films as Sink the Bismarck, D-Day and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Didn't she live in Ireland for many years?

[Seagull]

Didn't she live in Ireland for many years?

She was in 'Bracken' with Gabriel Byrne...

[OwlsFan]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52737000/jpg/_52737317_011990653-1.jpg

Kenyan Olympic gold medal marathon runner Samuel Wanjiru dies after falling from a balcony at his home in Nyahururu

[OwlsFan]

http://www.rte.ie/laweb/images/t07/t07f_pgreenex120x170.jpg

RTE Sports Commentator and Shamrock Rovers fan, Philip Greene. I remember him once crying out on commentary after Rovers had found the back of the net: "We've scored".

Mentioned in foot.ie archives:

http://foot.ie/archive/index.php/t-20238.html

[OwlsFan]

Actor Edward Hardwicke

http://step2inspire.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/edward-hardwicke.jpg


Irish singer Sean Dunphy who also represented Ireland in the Eurovision and came second to Sandy Shaw.

http://www.allkindsofeverything.ie/images/dunphy.jpg

[the 12 th man]

Garret Fitzgerald.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/dr-garret-fitzgerald-dies-in-a-dublin-hospital-aged-85-2651519.html

[OwlsFan]

I always liked Garret possibly because he was always so different from the Fianna Fail hardened politicians. Garret was an intellectual, not really a politician, and that was his downfall. RIP.

[geysir]

http://www.rte.ie/laweb/images/t07/t07f_pgreenex120x170.jpg

RTE Sports Commentator and Shamrock Rovers fan, Philip Greene. I remember him once crying out on commentary after Rovers had found the back of the net: "We've scored".

Mentioned in foot.ie archives:

http://foot.ie/archive/index.php/t-20238.html
I remember immediately after the cheering subsided after Dundalk scored a goal against Shamrock Rovers, hundreds of Dundalk supporters chanting in unison, 'Phil Greene - ha ha ha'.
The best was, you could hear it clear enough over his commentary on the b&w rte highlights that night.

[The Fly]

Former wrestling star 'Macho Man' Randy Savage died in a car crash this morning in Florida. (http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/20/florida.wrestler.dead/)

[dcfc_1928]

Gil Scott-Heron - American poet, musician, and author whose father played for Celtic in the 1950s.

http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/heron%2001.jpg

[OwlsFan]

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41573_19473046089_1281303_n.jpg

Jeff Conaway from Grease and Taxi fame.

[pineapple stu]

And more recently, Dr Drew's Celebrity Rehab. Was in an awful state on that. An early death was sadly inevitable really.

[OwlsFan]

Flick Colby (front), founder of the dance troupe Pan's People who used to appear on Top of the Pops in the 1970s/80s and who are one of the reasons I am half blind ;)

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00602/Showbiz_10-1_jpg_602777t.jpg


Janet Brown, impersonator of Margaret Thatcher:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53094000/jpg/_53094472_brow_imp_bbc.jpg

[Eminence Grise]

For quiz buffs of a certain vintage, Peter Murphy of RTE's Cross Country Quiz. Met him a few times at our local annual quiz night in the mid 80s - a very unassuming, modest man.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0604/murphyp.html

[Eminence Grise]

Irish author Josephine Hart, probably best known for Damage, filmed with Jeremy Irons and, mmm, Juliette Binoche.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13642120

[stann]

Surprised this hasn't been posted before, but I only heard about it yesterday too. Martin Rushent (http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2094032_tributes_to_music_producer_martin_rushent) , last Saturday.

Hugely influential and legendary producer, outstanding list of productions for those of us of a certain vintage, including the first three albums for both the Stranglers and the Buzzcocks, Happy Birthday and Pinky Blue for Altered Images, the Human League's Dare and the seminal remix album Love And Dancing.

[Trainee]

Breaking news that Brian Lenihan (ex finance minster) lost his battle with cancer this morning

RIP

[Macy]

Very sad for his family.

[dahamsta]

Thread title edited. I'm afraid I won't be holding him in the high esteem he bizarrely achieved in the last few years. Must've been tough for the family though.

[Macy]

I'm not going to get into the politics now, but I wish the media would drop the "heroic" stuff already. Speaking as someone who's lost on parent to cancer, and has the other undergoing treatment, I don't see anything positive in creating the expectation that cancer sufferers should put their career, as opposed to their family, first.