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Originally Posted by pineapple stu
He started now he's finished :(
Just noticed the post a few above about the actor who played Raymond's father in Everyone Loves Raymond. Only got in to them recently - very good comedy.
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Originally Posted by pineapple stu
He started now he's finished :(
Just noticed the post a few above about the actor who played Raymond's father in Everyone Loves Raymond. Only got in to them recently - very good comedy.
. . . David Ervine.
After turning his back on violence (he served time for possession of explosives) he played a key role in the Good Friday Agreement.
Apparently a man with a brilliant sense of humour, he learned enough Irish while at Long Kesh to confuse republican prisoners by shouting commands in Irish from the loyalist section of the prison.
After emerging as a voice representing working class Protestants in the North, he built links with the British Labour Party, addressing their 1994 annual conference with the words “I don’t want to wake up every morning and ask myself am I British or Irish? I want to think ‘Am I late for work?’.”
Almost as if playing one last joke on us all, his death was announced at the beginning of the RTE 9.00pm news on Sunday January 7th, only to be replaced some minutes later with the news that he was still with us!
David Ervine died on January 8th 2007 following a heart attack and a stroke the previous day. He was 53.
1) Magnus Magnusson RIP comsummate broadcaster and programme maker.
2) David Ervine RIP. David's loss will be deeply felt in the North as he was a rare voice of reason. He had in the past walked the walk, so when he talked the talk it gave him a credibility across the spectrum. Highly respected all over the island,we'll not see his like again!
I always had a lot of respect for David. RIP.
If there is an ounce of decencey left in the elected representitive in the 6 Counties please cut out all the shyte thats going on and as a legacy to a truely great peacemaker(in more recent times anyway) get powersharing up and runningQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Hopefully.....as one Sinn Fein Politician once said to me, "its the minds that need to be decommissioned not the guns"
I was under the impression that the Shinners decomissioned their minds sometime in the early 70's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...9/sogran29.xml
Grandstand. Been around since 1958 and I always used to watch it. The option was Dickie Davies on ITV with WORLD OF WRESTING :rolleyes:
Former San Marino defender Federico Crescentini, who died at the age of 24 on 15 December 2006 after drowning in the sea off Acapulco, Mexico.
I saw that alright. Came on a sub in the game in Dublin. Think he went in trying to save someone else.
Edit - Wikipedia article
My favourite author when I was bout 13-15 Sidney Sheldon has died aged 89.
http://www.rte.ie/aertel/301-01.html
RIP Sid and thanks for some great books of intrigue & mystery!
Also behing I dream of Genie am I correct? Or was it Bewitched?
I think it was I dream of Genie. Had some terrible tat tv movies but as a young teen I found his books intriguing. Him, Jeffery Archer and guy who wrote murder mysteries set in horse racing (cant think of his feckin name) made me want to live up to my birth right and become a detective!!
Dick FrancisQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Thats the boy JJPPC!!
Thank you! The old memory is not what it used to be!
I Dream of Jenie and Hart to Hart, both good programmes in their dayQuote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
I loved Hart to Hart soooo much! Aw ould Freeway the dog!
I remember in my school if you hadn't the watched new episode of Hart to Hart you were considered an outcast, it's amazing any of us turned out straight when you think about it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
I remember we used to play it in the school yard with me insisting that I was Jennifer! Oh & btw I went to an all girls school............
...the concert promoter, Jim Aiken.
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0228/aikenj.html
Actor John Inman, best known for his role as camp shop assistant Mr Humphries in the long-running BBC comedy "Are You Being Served?" died this morning.
Story here
Jean Baudrillard cashed his chips yesterday. One of the great visionary prophets of our time, although little solace could be derived from his insights. Simulacra and Simulation is an essential text.
....Gareth Hunt of the New Avengers. As a friend of mine said on the sad news, he always envied Hunt's close contacts with Joanna Lumley.
Boris Yeltsin , he had a laugh
Good spot.
I thought he was just asleep again.
Didnt he keep Albert Reynolds waiting during a state visit? he fell asleep during a flight to Dublin and he couldnt be woke! Bit of a character that guy, none like him these days.
Ya laugh a minute with Boris :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by PAURO 7
Just ask the first poor person you see when you step off the plane in Russia. Shouldn't take you long to find one.......
Well said LTID...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
This is Yeltsin's Legacy!
Ex England Intl Alan Ball died today aged 61.
Thats a shock. A true great for England, Everton and Arsenal (and Blackpool.) RIPQuote:
Originally Posted by the 12 th man
Apparently he died shortly after watching the Man U vs Milan game and hadn't been ill.
An irritating voice but a good player. I think he had spells as a manager as well but can't remember where (Preston?).
Portsmouth and Man City most notably
Just realised it was the same day a year ago that Ball's Everton Team mate Brian Labone died. Howard Kendall Joe Royle and Colin Harvey beware the 24th of April!
Alan Ball Remembered
So that's just Bobby Moore and Alan Ball gone from the WC Winning team of 1966. I may be wrong but I think Jack C was the only one whom was a successful manager of the lot.
He took a heart attack while putting out a bonfire in his garden which had gotten a bit out of control, according to the BBC. Was due to be playing in a charity golf tournament for the Heart Foundation today.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Jerry Falwell, right wing American fundamentalist evangelist and "outter" of notorious homosexual Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies.
Cheerio, shut the door on your way out......
Diego Corrales. World Class Boxer.
Kurt Waldheim, former head of the UN and member of the SS. They don't quite go together.
Or do they?Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Bernard Manning ,not everybodys cup of tea,died today aged 76.