RIP Thread for Notable People

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odyssey06

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Some recent deaths.

Joe Kinnear, Republic of Ireland soccer international and manager of Wimbledon in the early Premier League era. He passed away aged 77 due to complications from previous strokes.

And just announced that OJ Simpson has died at the age of 76 from cancer.
 
Joe Kinnear played for Ireland in Dalyer in the famous 3-0 win over Russia in 1974 that set Irish International football on a far more professional path under the stewardship of John Giles .
May the sod rest lightly on him .
 
Charlie Hurley R.I.P. , “ The King “ - voted Sunderland’s player of the 20th Century and a stalwart with Ireland .
May the sod rest gently on him .
 
English actor Bernard Hill has died aged 79.
On TV he was best known for the iconic role of Scouser Yosser Hughes in the Liverpudlian drama The Boys from the Blackstuff. Ironically, Hill was actually from Manchester and a lifelong Man Utd supporter.

Later in his career he had supporting roles in major Hollywood movies Lord of the Rings (as King Theoden) and Titanic (as Captain Edward Smith).

Bernard Hill - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
 
Former media magnate Tony O’Reilly has died aged 88
Sad news indeed.

‘A giant of sport, business and media’ – Tributes as Tony O’Reilly dies aged 88

Anthony O’Reilly has died aged 88 in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin on Saturday morning. The former businessman, international rugby player and Chief Executive of Independent News & Media (INM) was brought to hospital suffering from pneumonia just over two weeks ago.
www.independent.ie
 
He's gone now and it can't be helped.

But there are several more beyond-the-call-of-duty businesspeople whom we can yet - and should - honour.

Those of us raised in rural Ireland know the difference made by Bórd Bainne to milk prices was crucial in keeping small farmers in the game until EEC/EU entry in 1973. Likewise with his canny rescue of Irish Sugar and Erin Foods later via a merger with Heinz. In terms of management, what O'Reilly did in harmonizing the quality of surplus butter and branding it was quite pedestrian even for those times. But such was our national inferiority complex then that no one had done it up to then. The success remains evident in the premium it commands over other butters.

The final act of his business career was saddening, perhaps maddening to many who saw details of his art-works listed in the final court cases. Yet in the last few years it would not have been amiss, I feel, to have given O'Reilly a modicum of national appreciation for at least those things he did do well and which benefitted so many of us.
 
Read Mat Cooper's "The Maximilist" a few years ago and it's a good read for anyone interested in Tony O'Reilly
 
Firefly said:
Read Mat Cooper's "The Maximilist" a few years ago and it's a good read for anyone interested in Tony O'Reilly
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Read long ago. A very readable book with plenty of background on the main characters involved.

Which of you guttersnipes moved my post from its own timely and worthy thread of its own on a public honours system in Ireland and put it into the RIPs ? :mad:
 
Fran Rooney, ex-FAI and Baltimore Technologies chief passed away last week at the age of 67.

A former League of Ireland footballer, Mr Rooney played with a number of teams including Home Farm, Shamrock Rovers, St Patrick's Athletic and Bohemians.

A notice posted on rip.ie said Mr Rooney had passed away peacefully on Monday surrounded by his family.

Ex-FAI, Baltimore Technologies boss Fran Rooney has died

The death has taken place of the businessman and ex-FAI chief executive, Fran Rooney.
www.rte.ie
 
odyssey06 said:
Fran Rooney, ex-FAI and Baltimore Technologies chief passed away last week at the age of 67.
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A bit young to die of natural causes even if he ran himself into the ground on the field.
No doubt the stress of building up a Nasdaq company and then the humiliation of the accursed FAI wore the man down. Compared to what came after him there, he wasn't the worst.
 
Author, playwright and award-winning journalist Joe Joyce has died.

Mr Joyce (77) twice won Journalist of the Year and was the author of seven historical and crime thrillers, including the Echoland trilogy of historical spy novels set in Dublin during the second World War... He also wrote non-fiction works, including The Boss: Charles J. Haughey in Government, co-authored with fellow journalist Peter Murtagh. Published in 1983, the book focused on the 1982 government led by Mr Haughey.

Joe Joyce: ‘Brilliant investigative reporter’, author and playwright dies aged 77

Joyce was co-author of The Boss, about former taoiseach Charles Haughey’s time in government in 1982
www.irishtimes.com
 
I was always grateful to Fran Rooney, He made a fortune for me. He turned a weeks wages into nearly 3 months wages for me way back then. Retail Decisions, the best investment decision I ever made. RIP
 
RIP... was hoping there might be a positive outcome. Have frequently listened to his podcasts on BBC radio.

A body has been found in a cave on the Greek island of Symi in the search for UK television doctor Michael Mosley. The TV personality was last seen by friends at the Agios Nikolaos beach on Wednesday, before going for a walk. Volunteers and emergency workers were searching a treacherous mountainous part of the island yesterday after the 67-year-old TV personality disappeared last week.

Body found in cave in search for missing Michael Mosley

A body has been found in a cave on the Greek island of Symi in the search for UK television doctor Michael Mosley.
www.rte.ie
 
Canadian Actor Donald Sutherland, star of films including The Hunger Games and Don't Look Now, has died at 88 after a long illness.

His son, Kiefer, announced his father's death in a statement.
"With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film," he said. "Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived."

Sutherland starred in films including The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes and Klute.
One of the Canadian actor's breakout roles was as Hawkeye Pierce, a surgeon in the 1970 movie MASH, a comedy about medics in the Korean War.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rrvdq3g9zo
 
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