RIP Bill O'Herlihy. Some of the greatest moments in Irish sport will always be associated with him.
Title says it all. Very upsetting.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0525/703580-bill-oherlihy/
https://youtu.be/YzYJT_8VfYw
Last edited by johnnyc; 25/05/2015 at 11:24 AM.
That's exactly it, isn't it? He was there with us.
Poor aul guy, didn't see much of his retirement. RIP.
Very sad news. RIP Bill.
Lets talk about six baby
Sad day, RIP Bill.
Saddened to hear this. He was ever-present on RTÉ for as long as I can remember. An icon in Irish sport. RIP, Bill.
Genuinely gutted, irrevocably connected to my most emotional sporting moments growing up. Take it easy Bill.
Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
I don't associate him either with the long strange trip that Irish football has experienced down through the decades, since 1973. I associate that with the event itself, the players/managers who helped make it happen, the long suffering fans who witnessed it and lastly the match commentators, from Phil Greene to Jimmy Magee to George. In the order of things, in irish football, Bill is way down the list of my associations with all those memories. I'd probably more associate him with his disparagements about Irish football.
As a tv presenter he was a respected consummate professional and he had a quiet down to earth dignity that anyone could appreciate.
I was at many of the games so RTE passed me by. I agree with Geysir to some extent and think he often tried to tee up Dunphy to say something negative or controversial. But I can tell the dancer from the dance in this instance. Bill was an amiable and professional bloke and even if Dunphy was OTT, Bill was right to seek unpopular opinions. If more media commentators had sought unpopular opinions during the Tiger years maybe Ireland wouldn't have ended up in such a mess. Maybe he felt the negative opinion was the popular opinion so perhaps he should have sought more positivity. I think footy is unique in Irish sport, where misery seems to love company.
To quote Roddy Doyle about Bill - 'it was like we knew him' and 'he always made me happy'. RIP Bill.
Last edited by gastric; 25/05/2015 at 10:17 PM.
Shed a tear in the car listening to Eamon talking about him on Newstalk.
I felt I knew Bill, he was like an uncle from Cork you only see every few years.
Folding my way into the big money!!!
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
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