Death Notices

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Tommy Makem - Bard of Armagh
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Square Ball

The GAA as an armature sport?
Hospitals are not equipped to treat stupid

Lecale2

Joe Dolan. I never liked his show but RIP. He was loved by mammys all over Ireland.

gerry


Man arrested after Greening death

Kevin Greening formerly hosted Radio 1's breakfast show
A man has been arrested following the death of radio presenter Kevin Greening, Scotland Yard has said.

He is in his fifties and has been questioned on suspicion of possessing and intending to supply Class A drugs.

He was detained at the location in Wandsworth, south London, where Greening's body was discovered and has been given police bail until March.

Greening, an ex-BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ, died in his sleep on Saturday at the age of 44.

A post-mortem examination failed to establish the cause of his death and further tests will now be conducted, the Metropolitan Police added.

The case is being treated as an "unexplained" death and detectives from the force's specialist crime directorate are involved in trying to establish what happened.

This unit investigates London's "most serious and high-profile cases" and is sometimes described as the "Murder Squad" by the media.

However, a Scotland Yard spokesman insisted this was not currently a murder inquiry.
God bless the hills of Dooish, be they heather-clad or lea,

full back

Death Of A Legend............


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/13/MNPTUE04P.DTL

Eddie "Bozo" Miller, a competitive eater whose gastronomical feats earned him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records - twice - died Monday in his Oakland home. He was 89 - or 99, depending on which version of his story he liked to tell.

Although Miller suffered from diabetes, a weakened heart and kidney failure, his family said he died of old age.

A son of vaudevillians, Miller liked to do everything in high style, whether it was betting on horses, managing boxing fights or competitive gorging. He once claimed he outdrank a lion in a martini contest.

The 1981 edition of Guinness Book of World Records dubbed Miller the "world's greatest trencherman," or heavy eater, and listed him as undefeated in eating contests since 1931. He ate 27 roast chickens, of 2 pounds each, in one sitting at Trader Vic's in Emeryville in 1963. He drank two quarts of liquor in an hour. Both feats vaulted him into the Guinness World Book, but the chicken escapade also won him a $10,000 bet.

At the time, he weighed 280 pounds and was consuming 25,000 calories a day - 11 times more than his doctor recommended. At the peak of his eating contest days he stood 5 feet 7 and tipped the scale at 330. He wore a 57-inch belt.

"Yes, he was larger than life," said his daughter, Candice Blackman of Pleasant Hill. "He was a born showoff."

Growing up with Miller, life could be a bit of circus. He drove his kids to school in lime green or bright yellow Cadillac convertibles. "He had the top down, music blaring, and honked these crazy horns he had installed," Blackman said. "It was always embarrassing."

There was a jukebox in the Miller breakfast room that he always kept stocked with 45s.

"He wasn't a normal dad, that's for sure," she added. "Every day he went to the racetrack, came back and cooked dinner. He loved blondes, he loved booze, he loved life. We all miss him."

Miller was proud of his epicurean prowess, and claimed he once ate 400 raviolis - single-handedly wiping the pasta offering off a restaurant's menu. He once consumed 30 pounds of elk meat loaf, and bragged he could down up to 12,000 raw oysters. For a beverage, Miller favored the martini - 10 to 12 of them before lunch.

His calling card read, "World Champion of Gourmand Gastronomics."

He told The Chronicle that he beat a lion in a martini-drinking contest.

"Some guy from the circus came into the restaurant - Reno Barsocchini's, I think - with a lion on a leash," he said.

"I drank them out of a glass, and they put the martinis on a soup plate for the lion. I maybe had about a dozen. The lion, he kept lapping them up until he just fell asleep."

The sometime fight promoter, bookie and liquor salesman was born in San Francisco. As a boy, he traveled with his parents on their vaudeville circuit, discovering he could entertain the performers with his stomach capacity. As a young man, he impressed his friends at ballgames with his disappearing hot dog trick.

His antics became professional, then legendary, and he attracted many Hollywood celebrities. In newspaper interviews, he described sumptuous dinners and claimed table guests such as Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, Joan Crawford and Dean Martin.

In 1946, he married Janice Bidwell, a former princess of the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Ten years later, she suffered a brain hemorrhage that left her an invalid until her death in 2001.

His family is planning a private funeral, but a public "Bozo Bash" will be held in a few weeks to celebrate his life.

Miller is survived by two daughters, Blackman and Virginia "Cooky" Logan of Napa; and four grandchildren. A third daughter, Honey, predeceased him.

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Chess legend Fischer dies at 64  
 



The US-born player was a fierce critic of his government


Fischer's career 
The controversial former world chess champion, Bobby Fischer, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
The US-born player, who became famous for beating Cold War Soviet rival Boris Spassky in 1972, died of an unspecified illness, his spokesman said.

He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 as a way to avoid being deported to the US.

Mr Fischer was wanted for breaking international sanctions by playing a match in the former Yugoslavia in 1992.

  They [media] constantly use the words eccentric, eccentric, eccentric, weird. I am boring. I am boring!

Bobby Fischer

He also had alienated many in his homeland by broadcasting anti-Semitic diatribes and expressing support for the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York.

The reclusive player - who had renounced his US citizenship - had lived undetected in Japan for a number of years before moving to Iceland.

Tributes

Mr Fischer died in Iceland on Thursday, his spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said.

The nature of the illness was unknown but Mr Fischer had been reportedly seriously ill for some time.

Spassky said he was "very sorry" to hear of Mr Fischer's death, the Associated Press reported.

Russia's Garry Kasparov, a former world champion, said that Mr Fischer's ascent through the chess world in the 1960s was "a revolutionary breakthrough" for the game.




'Match of the century'

Mr Fischer was born in Chicago in 1943, but was brought up in New York's Brooklyn.

He became a US chess champion at 14 and then a youngest grand master a year later.

He achieved world fame after playing a world championship match in Iceland in 1972, beating title-holder Spassky.

The so-called chess "match of the century" came to be seen as a proxy for the Cold War, as the Soviets had held the world title since World War II.

Mr Fischer, the individual who had triumphed over the might of the Communist system, became an American hero.

The 1972 match made chess fashionable, even sexy, some experts say.

He lost the world chess crown in 1975 after refusing to play against his Soviet rival Anatoly Karpov.

US critic

The eccentric US genius then simply disappeared, declining all lucrative sponsorship deals.

He resurfaced briefly in 1992, to play a re-match with Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions.




Mr Fischer then vanished again, though it later became clear he had been living for a number of years in Japan.

He hit world headlines again after the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.

In an interview to a radio station in the Philippines, he described the attacks as the "wonderful news".

In another interview Mr Fischer accused the media of trying to "poison the public against me".

"They constantly use the words eccentric, eccentric, eccentric, weird. I am boring. I am boring!" he said.

He had also been strongly criticised for making anti-Semitic comments.

Mr Fischer was granted Icelandic citizenship in March 2005, after spending several months in detention in Japan.

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Sqn Bertram "Jimmy" Ldr James.



One of 76 men who escaped from a Nazi prison camp in 1944 in Poland, which was remembered in the 1963 film starring Steve McQueen.
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Armagh4SamAgain

I dont no him but may be rest and peece and the soles of all the dearly departed

Hollywood actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence, a New York Police Department spokesman has said.
"He was found unconscious at the apartment and pronounced dead," a police spokeswoman said.

It is not yet clear how the 28-year-old Australian actor, who earned an Oscar nomination as a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, died.

Police said he had been due to have a massage at the flat.
'We just go out to play our football and let the critics say what they want. They usually do anyway"

Armagh4SamAgain

Kieran McGeenys granny was buried today in Mullaghbawn after mass. RIP
'We just go out to play our football and let the critics say what they want. They usually do anyway"

THE MIGHTY QUINN

Kathleen Traynor, Silverbridge. A true Gael in every sense of the word. Together with her husband Pat she gave a lifetime to Silverbridge in all aspects of the Club including the Scor. A Pioneer for 55 years and a member of the Altar Society in the local Church she will be sorely missed.

RIP 

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Quote from: THE MIGHTY QUINN on February 10, 2008, 01:14:57 PM
Kathleen Traynor, Silverbridge. A true Gael in every sense of the word. Together with her husband Pat she gave a lifetime to Silverbridge in all aspects of the Club including the Scor. A Pioneer for 55 years and a member of the Altar Society in the local Church she will be sorely missed.

RIP 

True.
Rest in peace Kathleen. 
Which one of you bitches wants to dance?

Double Cross

Brendan 'The Dark' Hughes RIP

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