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Joe Kinnear (1946 - 7 April 2024). Dublin born former Spurs and Ireland full back who managed Wimbledon for years and had a spell in charge of Newcastle. Joe was suffering with dementia. https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41369380.html

Ger Brady (1980 - 21 March 2024) Former Mayo footballer died aged 44 from Motor Neurone Disease. https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41359246.html

The rip.ie comments on Emmet are lovely. Nice memories from friends and people who saw him at the Abbey. Plus lots of Glenroe fans and the word "handsome" comes up a lot. Legend.

Remember Virgil smashing his boss Ted Dibiase with the million dollar belt. Extremely sad to hear he was plagued with health issues. RIP

German football great Andreas Brehme (1960 - 20 February 2024 ) died of heart attack aged 63. Andi played in three World Cups and scored the winning penalty in the 1990 World Cup Final. He won league titles with Bayern, Inter Milan and a miraculous 1998 Bundesliga back at Kaiserslautern in his...

Another of Kenya's greatest runners has died aged 72. Henry Rono (12 February 1952 - 15 February 2024) Rono set multiple world records inc. at four different distances in 81 days in 1978. Rono's 1978 3000m steeplechase world record stood for over a decade. He never competed at an Olympics due...

Kelvin Kiptum (2 December 1999 - 11 February 2024) Kenyan marathon runner who set the world record (2:00:35) in Chicago in October has died in a car crash along with his coach. Kelvin is survived by a wife and two children...

Way better than Megadeth. Where was the church that series was shot at? I never saw this before but remember the programme. I think it was on Fridays about 7 pm circa 1988.

Wiki says Don Henley jumped up on stage when Mojo was playing Don Henley Must Die and joined in. Mojo praised the size of Henley's balls afterwards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_Nixon

Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two Headed Lovechild Thought the other guy was GG Allin for a minute. Only thing I knew about Mojo Nixon was that he did an album with Jello Biafra.

RIP Melanie. Hope she got a few bob off Brendan

Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, no, no, no. I was listening to The Shangri Las a good bit last week. Mary only turned 75 in December nearly 60 years after she sang all those teen drama tunes - more drama in 2 or 3 minutes than Home and Away can manage in a half hour. Train From Kansas, Out in the Streets...

The PiL appearance in 1980(?) was the highlight of Annie's time on The OGWT. RIP Annie. She loved her music. Algy was the first of 1979 Damned line up to die in 2023 - they're lovely lads really.

Really Der Kaiser was a midfielder who completely redefined being a central defender. Most of that footage is from a relatively small amount of internationals too. Safe to say Beckenbauer did this match after match. Someone told me today that Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck 's nickname was ''The...

Only realised today that Der Kaiser multiple serious health problems in recent years - hip replacement, lost sight in one eye, heart issues and his brother Walter described symptoms similar to dementia recently. Sepp Maier was born in 1944 and Franz and Gerd Muller in 1945 - Bayern must have...

FOUR World Cups - even Pele 'only' won three. Another Zagallo coaching achievement was qualifying the then little known UAE (pop. 1.5 million) for Italia 90. But Mario was sacked before the tournament after he made comments about their lack of prospects in Italy. Carlos Alberto Parreira...

Amon Duul II guitarist Chris Karrer (1947 - 2 January 2024) https://www.discogs.com/artist/373226-Chris-Karrer?superFilter=Credits

Jaba Alves the original bassist with RATOS DE PARAO (1981-93) died on December 26th aged 60. https://blabbermouth.net/news/original-ratos-de-porao-bassist-jarbas-jaba-alves-dead-at-60 Also just heard that Roger Armstrong died on 30th December aged 61. Roger was the drummer in Tokyo punk groups...

RE above: Draft Dodger Rag was written by Phil Ochs.

Tom Smothers died the other day aged 86. As part of the musical comedy duo The Smothers Brothers with his brother Dick, they were given their own TV show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour from 1967-69 . By all accounts it was initially quite staid but they very quickly got with the times and the...