Eddie Jordan - a man who lived his dream and competed with the Big Ones. When I worked in Dublin back in the day he lived a few doors down. Those were the days. RIP Eddie.
George Foreman will be mourned by his five sons from various marriages - George , George, George, George and yes you’ve guessed it George .
All named so that they’d have something in common .
Iconic fighter and barbecue master - R.I.P.
The American actor Richard Chamberlain, best known for his starring roles in the series Dr Kildare and the miniseries Shōgun (1980) and The Thorn Birds, has died at the age of 90.
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone is one of my all time favourite movie characters (ignore the complete historical inaccuracy of just about everything in the film). Sure you'd nearly put up with the whole dying from Tuberculosis thing to be that cool.
Reading back over his credits, he was in a lot of big films of the time, I'd forgotten that he was in (nothing to do with his acting though).
He tried his best to rescue The Doors but it's a film that time has not been kind to but his performance was note perfect.
As a child growing up I'd hear him going on every year about how he was expecting a tough battle from Cork and then his Kerry team would beat the .... out of us. Remarkable man, met him once and he always came across as a genuinely decent man as well.
The greatest Kerry manager of all time has left this world. A man who gave us the golden years. 4 all irelands as a player, 3 at under 21 and 8 as a senior manager, He brought u
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is a fine post from Veteran over on the Kerry GAA Forum.