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And for anyone who enjoyed the music of Planxty - we also lost Liam O'Flynn yesterday >EF
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pwrmoore wrote:And for anyone who enjoyed the music of Planxty - we also lost Liam O'Flynn yesterday >EF

Ah poor ould Liam Og, a champion piper. Saw them a few times. Could never warm to Andy Irvine for some reason..................then again he wasn't too charmed by me, fair enough.
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RIP Ray Wilkins.

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RIP Eric Bristow. (aged 60) collapsed at the darts tonight.
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colind wrote:RIP Eric Bristow. (aged 60) collapsed at the darts tonight.
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FFS! that is a shocker. Did for darts what Alec did for snooker.
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big mervyn wrote:
colind wrote:RIP Eric Bristow. (aged 60) collapsed at the darts tonight.
20 Double top

FFS! that is a shocker. Did for darts what Alec did for snooker.
Lost his livelihood for writing stupid stuff on twitter. Very relevant!

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ColinM wrote:
big mervyn wrote:
colind wrote:RIP Eric Bristow. (aged 60) collapsed at the darts tonight.
20 Double top

FFS! that is a shocker. Did for darts what Alec did for snooker.
Lost his livelihood for writing stupid stuff on twitter. Very relevant!

The only darts player in my childhood who everyone round the kitchen table could identify though - possibly the games first superstar.



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Always liked the two lads, Butch & Eric. Lots of people dying these days that have never died before. :(
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When you get a certain age it what you friends ( or their wives )do

have been to two in a fortnight ( big C jobs no more B Jobs )
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rumncoke wrote:When you get a certain age it what you friends ( or their wives )do

have been to two in a fortnight ( big C jobs no more B Jobs )
A touching tribute to your friends Ron’n.
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Big Tom McBride the country singer fro Castleblaney :salut:
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Rooster wrote:Big Tom McBride the country singer fro Castleblaney :salut:
If you look him up on youtube you'll find many comments saying "I like Big Tom". RIP Big Tom
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I see Barbara Bush has popped her clogs, one of only two weemin ever to be First Lady & then POTUS's Ma. Though I have never been greatly fond of Republicans, other than during the Spanish Civil War, I think by and large Babs was a decent ould sort, she certainly was not one for the kind of division the current POTUS relishes.

May Babs & her bush rest easy. :thumleft:
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HM has lost a Corgi too.
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WeeWorld wrote:
Rooster wrote:Big Tom McBride the country singer fro Castleblaney :salut:
If you look him up on youtube you'll find many comments saying "I like Big Tom". RIP Big Tom
All that heroin finally did for him?

I was watching Bridget and Eamon there and the Gerry Adams character explained his position re the RA: You see, It's like Big Tom and the Mainliners. Big Tom was with the Mainliners BUT he was never actually in the Mainliners :lol:
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