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#Obituary
# obituary - Monday 3 August, 2020
Ireland's peacemaker, John Hume (1937-2020)
The former SDLP leader has died aged 83.
# obituary - Thursday 26 December, 2019
Larry Donnelly: Trump re-election in 2020 not a done deal, but Democrats face an uphill battle
The Democrats bowed to pressure on impeachment, but will it make a difference to the 2020 result?
# obituary - Monday 31 December, 2018
Remembering the Irish men and women we lost in 2018
It was the year we bid our final farewells to…
# obituary - Sunday 26 August, 2018
US senator and former presidential candidate John McCain has died aged 81
The veteran politician is survived by his wife Cindy and seven children.
# obituary - Friday 20 January, 2017
One of the ultimate 'that guy' character actors has passed away
Miguel Ferrer had an acting career that spanned four decades.
# obituary - Monday 9 January, 2017
Ireland's man of the century, TK Whitaker, dies aged 100
The humble civil servant created the blueprint for modern Ireland with his economic policies.
# obituary - Monday 2 January, 2017
Prodigious British author and art critic John Berger has died aged 90
Berger’s Ways of Seeing programme changed the face of art criticism.
# obituary - Saturday 17 December, 2016
'Irishman dies from stubbornness, whiskey': This man's brilliant obituary is going viral
“Absolut vodka and Simply Orange companies are devastated by the loss of Connors.”
# obituary - Saturday 4 June, 2016
From Rome to Manila: Muhammad Ali 'shook up the world'
The world lost The Greatest last night.
# obituary - Wednesday 18 May, 2016
# obituary - Thursday 17 March, 2016
Magician Paul Daniels dies aged 77
Daniels had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour.
# obituary - Saturday 23 January, 2016
# obituary - Thursday 31 December, 2015
Deaths in 2015: Saying goodbye to those we loved and lost this year
It was the year we bid our final farewells to…
# obituary - Saturday 10 October, 2015
Geoffrey Howe, old ally to Margaret Thatcher, has died
Howe, former chancellor of the exchequer among other things, has died from a heart attack aged 88.
# obituary - Saturday 22 August, 2015
This lady has the cutest obituary you'll read today
“She disliked very much the end of the football season, her middle name and McDonalds.”
# obituary - Friday 3 July, 2015
# obituary - Monday 29 June, 2015
# obituary - Wednesday 24 June, 2015
Is this the harshest obituary headline ever?
The internet thinks so.
# obituary - Friday 1 May, 2015
Ben E King, singer of Stand By Me, has died.
The singer was 76.
# obituary - Thursday 30 April, 2015
This grandmother's obituary has one very interesting detail
She has how many grandchildren?!
# obituary - Monday 23 March, 2015
Singapore's founding father, 'a true giant of history', dies aged 91
Lee Kuan Yew has been hailed as the person who turned Singapore into the prosperous city it is today.
# obituary - Tuesday 24 February, 2015
This man's obituary says he died "due to an uppercut from Batman"
Here’s how it all came about.
# obituary - Monday 23 February, 2015
This man's obituary lists his cause of death as 'uppercut from Batman'
This has an unexpectedly brilliant opening paragraph.
# obituary - Friday 30 January, 2015
'Plain and overweight': This dreadful obituary of a female author is causing a storm online
Twitter users are posting their own obituaries in response to an Australian newspaper’s gaffe.
# obituary - Tuesday 30 December, 2014
Golden era Hollywood actress Luise Rainer dies aged 104
Her roles ranged from the 1930s German stage to television’s The Love Boat.
# obituary - Monday 1 December, 2014
Dad with cancer writes funny, lovely obituary before death
Is it dusty in here?
# obituary - Thursday 23 October, 2014
Singer Alvin Stardust dies aged 72
The glamrock singer had a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 80s.
# obituary - Thursday 28 August, 2014
An Post's anniversary tribute to Seamus Heaney is beautiful
For when you want to rest the squat pen between finger and thumb and, you know, write a letter…
# obituary - Thursday 21 August, 2014
A risk taker, a dealer and a peacemaker: Remembering Albert Reynolds (1932-2014)
The 81-year-old former taoiseach passed away in the early hours of this morning.
# obituary - Monday 21 July, 2014
Karl Albrecht, reclusive founder of Aldi supermarket, has died aged 94
He went from selling buns on the street, to having a fortune of $25.9 billion.
# obituary - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
Prolific actor Eli Wallach dies at the age of 98
The actor was best known for his roles in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and The Magnificent Seven.
# obituary - Wednesday 28 May, 2014
Writer Maya Angelou has died at 86
She was best known for her work I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
# obituary - Saturday 19 April, 2014
This obituary for 'Pervert Dave' is completely real
He loved motorcycles.
# obituary - Thursday 17 April, 2014
Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize-winning writer, has died
The Colombian writer was 87.
# obituary - Friday 11 April, 2014
Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole books, has died
The author died at home at the age of 68.
# obituary - Sunday 30 March, 2014
President Higgins pays tribute to former Senator Sam McAughtry
McAughtry, who was a writer and broadcaster, had played a role in the peace process throughout his life.
# obituary - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# obituary - Friday 31 January, 2014
Here's the touching police dog obituary that has the internet bawling its eyes out
Christopher Coscia’s heartfelt tribute to his canine companion went viral after appearing on Facebook.
# obituary - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
Folk legend Pete Seeger dies at 94
The folk music champion died of natural causes at a New York hospital last night.
# obituary - Thursday 5 December, 2013
Nelson Mandela: Prisoner, president and father of 'Rainbow Nation'
The former president of South Africa, who spent 27 years in prison, inspired a nation and the world.
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Poll: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
CONCERTS AND MANY other events have, of course, been cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Images of a socially-distanced concert in England were widely shared during the week.
Fans at the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, watched the outdoor concert in groups of up to five people from 500 separate raised metal platforms.
Promoters described the event as the world’s first socially-distanced gig. Some people thought the layout looked great, while others were not so sure.
We want to know: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
Poll Results:
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I'm not sure (691)
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Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'The rhetoric of “all being in it together” is dead'
By Dr Anthony O'Connor - @Antcon7062
Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
By Psychologists for Social Change Ireland
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
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