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Celebrity Deaths 2026

The Most Rev. Jesse Jackson RIP. He opened the front door of a venerated central Dublin establishment in December 2004 to let me into a talk he was about to give when the local jobsworth stewards had said there was no room at the inn for me. Thank you for that Jesse. I wanted to ask Jesse a question about whether he thought the recently elected senator Barack Obama of Illinois would be the first black president of the USA, but there were a lot of hands asking rubbish questions, time ran out, …