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Not sure at all but i think his brother is involved heavily in his agency so there’s probably some sort of succession plan there for the last while. Either way, you’d imagine this might cause a little/lot turmoil in the transfer market this off season!!
pineapple stu
04/05/2022, 9:55 AM
Ric Parnell, the drummer from Spinal Tap (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/02/ric-parnell-spinal-tap-drummer-dies).
Cause of death "not immediately available". Maybe because you can't dust for vomit.
OwlsFan
16/05/2022, 8:24 AM
Another Australian cricketer, Andrew Symonds https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2022/may/15/andrew-symonds-was-a-born-entertainer-and-a-reluctant-celebrity
pineapple stu
24/05/2022, 1:43 PM
Dervla Murphy, completely mad travel writer (in the nicest possible way!) from Waterford, aged 90 (https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0523/1300688-dervla-murphy/).
A Place Apart (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Place-Apart-Dervla-Murphy/dp/0140050302) is one of the best travel books I've ever read, about a spell cycling around the North in 1976. Comes with a post-script from the Head of the British Army at the time crediting the book with helping change his understanding of the North and, ultimately, getting the place on the path to peace.
That's rather ruined my day :(
the 12 th man
26/05/2022, 4:37 PM
Big shock -Ray Liotta https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/breaking-ray-liotta-dead-hollywood-27075988
seanfhear
26/05/2022, 4:44 PM
Big shock -Ray Liotta https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/breaking-ray-liotta-dead-hollywood-27075988
Brilliant in Goodfellas.
CraftyToePoke
26/05/2022, 11:23 PM
Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode. RIP
Was only watching a doc on the Hansa Recording Studios in Berlin last night.
nigel-harps1954
26/05/2022, 11:33 PM
https://pitchfork.com/news/yes-drummer-alan-white-dies-at-72/
Drummer Alan White, of Yes, John Lennon and George Harrison fame.
The Andy Fletcher announcement today got me in the feels. Was a huge fan of DM and him in general.
DM’s Personal Jesus was also the answer to todays Heardle which is a very weird coincidence.
the 12 th man
29/05/2022, 9:46 AM
Lester Piggott a true icon on the sport of kings.
D24Saint
09/06/2022, 11:43 AM
Ray Coyle founder of Tayto park is off to the great theme park in the sky.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0609/1303834-ray-coyle-founder-of-tayto-park-dies-aged-70/
OwlsFan
28/06/2022, 12:04 PM
Frank Williams: the vicar in Dad's Army. Not many left now.
seanfhear
28/06/2022, 12:19 PM
Frank Williams: the vicar in Dad's Army. Not many left now.
Gods Army Now !
D24Saint
08/07/2022, 9:11 AM
Ex Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He was assassinated with a shotgun.
D24Saint
08/07/2022, 9:22 AM
James Caan , acting legend.
dahamsta
08/07/2022, 10:12 AM
Ex Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He was assassinated with a shotgun.
Jesus, that's mental!
seanfhear
08/07/2022, 10:43 AM
Ex Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He was assassinated with a shotgun.
If your security can’t spot some one with a shotgun then you need new security.
tetsujin1979
08/07/2022, 1:41 PM
seems it was a home made weapon.
Tony Sirico (aka Paulie Walnuts) :(
D24Saint
09/07/2022, 2:36 PM
Tony Sirico (aka Paulie Walnuts) :(
He played a great role in The Sopranos, RIP.
OwlsFan
11/07/2022, 6:58 AM
Tony Sirico (aka Paulie Walnuts) :(
Arguably the best character in the Sopranos. Was arrested in real life on a number of occasions and also spent time in prison apparently.
seanfhear
11/07/2022, 7:08 AM
Arguably the best character in the Sopranos. Was arrested in real life on a number of occasions and also spent time in prison apparently.
Method acting in advance.
SkStu
20/07/2022, 12:46 AM
I missed this but Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays bassist and brother of Shaun) passed away on July 15th.
sidewayspasser
21/07/2022, 5:06 PM
Uwe Seeler, former German international, aged 85.
In the late 70s, he was a guest player in a Cork Celtic match, a few years after his official retirement. Apparently, he wasn't aware that it was a league match and thought he'd signed up for a friendly. Scored two goals in that match.
NeverFeltBetter
25/07/2022, 2:31 PM
David Warner, aged 80. One of those actors that you don't even realise how many things he pops up in, from the stage, to VA work in animation, to Star Trek (he was Picard's torturer in the famous "Chain of Command" two-parter, of "There are four lights!" fame), to Titanic. I was always struck by his voice, which had this very, well, evil quality to it. I remember the very first time I read The Hobbit I automatically imagined Smaug's dialogue in his voice.
David Trimble. A courageous leader at a time when courage was needed.
https://news.sky.com/story/former-first-minister-of-northern-ireland-david-trimble-has-died-12643789
the 12 th man
26/07/2022, 5:05 AM
Actor Paul Sorvino.
ForzaForth
26/07/2022, 7:17 AM
Just read an obituary of the rallying driver, Paddy Hopkirk. Hadn't seen it mentioned elsewhere. Won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1964.
nigel-harps1954
26/07/2022, 12:11 PM
Paddy Hopkirk was an Irish rallying legend. One of the trialblazers of the Motorsport industry in Ireland.
dahamsta
01/08/2022, 1:50 PM
Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from Star Trek. A genuine trailblazer.
Crosby87
02/08/2022, 5:25 PM
Yes and oddly her brother was one of the ppl who committed suicide in 97 with the Heavens Gate cult in California.
dahamsta
08/08/2022, 8:27 PM
Olivia Neutron Bomb, 73. Had no idea she was Australian.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/olivia-newton-john-dead-grease-1235194880/
pineapple stu
08/08/2022, 8:38 PM
I presumed this was a drag actor or something called Olivia Neutron Bomb. I thought everyone knew the original was Australian!
So that was a bit of a surprise when I opened the link...
dahamsta
09/08/2022, 9:52 AM
That's what she was called in my house. Perhaps my dad just made it up. :)
Demesne Lad
09/08/2022, 2:35 PM
[QUOTE=dahamsta;2120026]Olivia Neutron Bomb, 73. Had no idea she was Australian./QUOTE]
Born in England, to a Welsh father and German Jewish mother; moved to Melbourne with her family when she was six. According to Wikipedia, her grandfather, Max Born, was a Nobel Prize winner.
so she could have played for England, Wales, Germany, Israel or Australia. Impressive.
seanfhear
09/08/2022, 4:42 PM
so she could have played for England, Wales, Germany, Israel or Australia. Impressive.
And Grease.
the 12 th man
09/08/2022, 7:25 PM
That's what she was called in my house. Perhaps my dad just made it up. :)
Olivia Nothing-On in our gaf...:p
And Grease.
Brilliant!! ��
pineapple stu
12/08/2022, 7:13 PM
Peter Byrne, long-time Irish football correspondent for the Irish Times.
Wrote a history of the FAI too which I remember for an irritating amount of commas
John83
15/08/2022, 9:52 AM
Olivia Neutron Bomb, 73. Had no idea she was Australian.
Born in England, to a Welsh father and German Jewish mother; moved to Melbourne with her family when she was six. According to Wikipedia, her grandfather, Max Born, was a Nobel Prize winner.
Born was a very serious physicist with contributions in quantum mechanics and optics. Born and Wolf is still a standard optics textbook.
OwlsFan
24/08/2022, 3:51 PM
Footballer David Armstrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Armstrong_(footballer,_born_1954)
seanfhear
24/08/2022, 4:38 PM
Footballer David Armstrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Armstrong_(footballer,_born_1954)
Remember him playing ~ ~ Fine physical specimen ~ ~ RIP.
Crosby87
28/08/2022, 3:21 PM
Joe E. Tata, who helped Brandon and the gang out of many a jam whilst serving burgers at The Peach Pit in downtown Beverly Hills, 90210. RIP Nat
pineapple stu
31/08/2022, 6:06 AM
Mikhail Gorbachev, possibly the only non-psychotic Russian leader of the last couple of hundred years, aged 91.
dahamsta
31/08/2022, 8:36 AM
He caused havoc in Russia that persists to this day, but it was the greed and/or stupidity of other people that are at fault, not Gorbachev.
I was lucky enough to visit Russia on a school tour in 1990, just before the collapse. It was an amazing country but socially it was exactly as it was portrayed in the media -- authoritarianism, drunks wandering the streets, queues for empty shops, rotten teeth, chancers everywhere, the whole shooting match. I'm not sure I'll ever get back, to see a "new Russia", which is very, very sad.
Crosby87
31/08/2022, 4:00 PM
It's interesting for you to have seen the USSR in 1990. I think (predictably ) that things went a little far in the media yesterday, blue checks on Twitter lauding him for being a great man. Then Russian females of the era started talking about the half million of them basically sold into sex slavery under his rule. I keep seeing "He ended the cold war." Eh...those clowns completely ran out of money and had nothing to pay the KBG or Red Army officials and knew they would be getting a knock on the door soon. Many knocks. Doing the right thing had nothing to do with it. It did bring up some funny stories about Yelstin though, particularly the press conference where he is drunk and Clinton is trying to cover for him by laughing uproariously.
dahamsta
31/08/2022, 4:25 PM
Boris Yeltsin circling over Shannon diplomatic incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin_circling_over_Shannon_diplomatic_inc ident)
tetsujin1979
31/08/2022, 11:05 PM
It's interesting for you to have seen the USSR in 1990. I think (predictably ) that things went a little far in the media yesterday, blue checks on Twitter lauding him for being a great man. Then Russian females of the era started talking about the half million of them basically sold into sex slavery under his rule. I keep seeing "He ended the cold war." Eh...those clowns completely ran out of money and had nothing to pay the KBG or Red Army officials and knew they would be getting a knock on the door soon. Many knocks. Doing the right thing had nothing to do with it. It did bring up some funny stories about Yelstin though, particularly the press conference where he is drunk and Clinton is trying to cover for him by laughing uproariously.
Think I read before that he suffered from anxiety from a young age, and drank to deal with it.
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