Bill O'Herlihy has passed away.

**johnnyc** · 25/05/2015, 11:18 AM

Title says it all.

Very upsetting.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0525/703580-bill-oherlihy/

https://youtu.be/YzYJT_8VfYw

**tetsujin1979** · 25/05/2015, 11:26 AM

RIP Bill O'Herlihy. Some of the greatest moments in Irish sport will always be associated with him.

**johnnyc** · 25/05/2015, 11:30 AM

That's exactly it, isn't it? He was there with us.

**OwlsFan** · 25/05/2015, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

RIP Bill O'Herlihy. Some of the greatest moments in Irish sport will always be associated with him.

No comment.

**DeLorean** · 25/05/2015, 12:05 PM

Poor aul guy, didn't see much of his retirement. RIP.

**DeLorean** · 25/05/2015, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

No comment.

None needed.

**tetsujin1979** · 25/05/2015, 1:46 PM

If there's anyone from RTE reading this, could you cancel Home and Away tonight, as a mark of respect?
And ALF, if it's still on.

**KK77** · 25/05/2015, 3:04 PM

Very sad news. RIP Bill.

**CraftyToePoke** · 25/05/2015, 3:29 PM

Sad day, RIP Bill.

**DannyInvincible** · 25/05/2015, 4:02 PM

Saddened to hear this. He was ever-present on RTÉ for as long as I can remember. An icon in Irish sport. RIP, Bill.

**SwanVsDalton** · 25/05/2015, 6:16 PM

Genuinely gutted, irrevocably connected to my most emotional sporting moments growing up. Take it easy Bill.

**osarusan** · 25/05/2015, 7:09 PM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

No comment.

Even in a thread started to make people aware of his death, you had to get your little dig in. Stay classy.

RIP Bill.

**geysir** · 25/05/2015, 7:34 PM

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.

**Stuttgart88** · 25/05/2015, 9:15 PM

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.

**gastric** · 25/05/2015, 10:14 PM

To quote Roddy Doyle about Bill - 'it was like we knew him' and 'he always made me happy'. RIP Bill.

**geysir** · 25/05/2015, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

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.

My point was more that he held similar disparaging opinions himself about Irish football, which he couldn't disguise. I can distinguish between the questions he asked to stimulate debate, from his own opinions.

**Fixer82** · 26/05/2015, 1:38 AM

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.

**tetsujin1979** · 07/04/2016, 3:48 PM

Bill O'Herlihy to feature in RTE's Cloch Le Carn series

**paul_oshea** · 08/04/2016, 9:48 AM

Originally Posted by geysir

My point was more that he held similar disparaging opinions himself about Irish football, which he couldn't disguise. I can distinguish between the questions he asked to stimulate debate, from his own opinions.

Yes, but you have forgot one minute important detail there. You are a uniquely superior human being.