RIP Thread for Notable People

John Ashton who played Det John Taggart .RIP. He was the cop in Beverly Hills Cop..
 
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Rip Kris Kristofferson. Very good singer .

Dunno about him being a great singer but he truly was a poetic songwriter.

It's strange so many Irish C&W stars claim KK was one of their favourites and a classic example of the old Don Williams saying that country music is about people. But then you look at the sort of soft-focus shayte put out by our country singers here and the "hardest" lyrics on Ireland's many ubiquitous human problems might well be Big Tom's Four Roads From Glenamaddy: the word leaving or immigration is never heard in it.

Fat chance of getting anything hard-hitting from today's Irish C&W shower on house prices, hospital queues or drop-downs in NSs . . .
 
I understand it is the Late Late Show C&W special tonight and there will be tributes to Kris Kristoffensen. Will be interesting to see if it touches upon that or will just be soft focus \ singing of a song.
 
I was listening to a well known Irish country singer during the week on the six o clock show paying a tribute to Kris and it was a shocking tribute..... embarrassing even..
 
Billy Bagster , a League of Ireland legend with Pats , Longford & Monaghan has died .
I’ve never met a man with a more encyclopaedic knowledge of football & he was without doubt one of the wittiest and gentle of men .
May the sod rest gently on him .
 
RIP Ronnie Dawson aged 92, of Wanderers, Leinster, Ireland, Lions, and Barbarians renown, our first ever coach and manager and alikadoo at club, provincial, national, international, and world levels. A magnificent player, administrator, and servant of the game he loved. One of my uncles was a clubmate of his at Wanderers.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dilis.

Ronnie Dawson
 
what cancer did he get because I heard he was only diagnosed in march of this year and now he is gone, up to that he looked to be in full health?
 
Jon Kenny, the much-loved comedian and actor who starred in D’Unbelievables, has died age 66...
He passed away at Galway Clinic yesterday evening. Kenny, who was originally from Hospital in Co Limerick, had previously suffered from non-Hodgkins lymphoma but made a recovery. Speaking earlier this year on RTÉ Radio One, he said his cancer had returned in recent years.