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# Dies

This year
2024
Tributes paid as Dublin selector Shane O’Hanlon dies
Wales and Lions legend Barry John dies
Italian football legend Gigi Riva dies
Last year
2023
Former Bristol and Bath back-rower Nick Koster dies at 34
Former Munster and Ireland team manager Brian O’Brien dies
Legendary sports commentator John Motson dies
Tributes paid after ‘brilliant broadcaster’ Dickie Davies dies
All time
FAI pays tribute after former president Des Casey dies
Ex-Arsenal, Tottenham and Northern Ireland manager Terry Neill dies
Ex-Ulster and South Africa player Pedrie Wannenburg dies aged 41
World champion stallion Galileo dies aged 23
Alan McLoughlin, hero of Ireland's '94 World Cup qualifying campaign, dies at 54
Ex-Italy rugby captain Cuttitta dies aged 54
Tony Trabert, who produced one of the greatest seasons in tennis history, dies
Groundsman dies after heat lamp accident
Former snooker star Willie Thorne dies aged 66
Former All Black Sione Lauaki dies aged 35
Tributes paid after legendary wrestler Jimmy Snuka dies
Cameroon international dies after collapsing on pitch
90-year-old man dies after being blown into a bus
French boy dies after being hit by hockey puck at match
Man in his 60s dies after e-cigarette explodes while charging
Man held after fan at football match dies in Sweden
Ex-Liverpool player Harrison, once world's most expensive teenager, dies at 46
Voice of Simpsons' schoolteacher Edna Krabappel dies
British woman dies after drinking 'tainted alcohol'
Legendary human rights activist Inez McCormack dies
Cricket commentator Martin-Jenkins dies aged 67
'Rescue Me' singer Fontella Bass dies, aged 72
Whale beached in New York neighbourhood dies
The tallest woman in the world dies
World's oldest person dies in US aged 116
Gardaí: 84-year-old Wexford man died of asphyxiation
Con Houlihan: "A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything"
Ivy Bean – the oldest tweeter dies