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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).

en.wikipedia.org

Bernard Hill - Wikipedia

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

www.independent.ie

Former media magnate Tony O’Reilly has died aged 88

Anthony O’Reilly has died aged 88 in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin this morning. The former businessman, international rugby player and Chief Executive of Independent News & Media (INM) was brought to hospital suffering from pneumonia earlier last week.
www.independent.ie 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.
 
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:
 
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