Celebrity Deaths 2025 - Under 90s only

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preliminary findings found no external signs of trauma, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office told NBC News. However, when the Santa Fe City Fire Department responded to a request to conduct carbon monoxide testing, they “did not locate signs of a carbon monoxide leak or poisoning.” A cause of death has still yet to be determined

Reunited with Bobby Fischer. .

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Nobody checks on the neighbours in gated communities. Nobody drops in with a mackerel they caught when fishing out on Lough Corrib. Nobody drops in with a cake or a loaf of brown bread they made themselves, and how’s your Mam/Dad/young wan/young lad/sister/brother? Nobody drops a lily in without fail on a particular day in June every year.

In modern day language the word community refers to a group of people who are not in any sense a community, but a series of people isolated from each other.

He started his last breath two hours before he passed !

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He had a chequered past.

You’d hope the Russian tabloids would have the headline “Spasibo Spassky” tomorrow.

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Can you catch mackerel in a lake?

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I don’t know. I know nothing about fish and I’ve never been fishing apart from two occasions, the first around 1985 when I got one of those nets on the end of a stick and went to the shallow rocky part of the Dodder at the back of Quinnsworth in Rathfarnham with me Mam and put the net in the water. I caught nothing and the net got quickly washed out of my hands by the flow of the water. I ran away crying.

Then about a year later my uncle (RIP) bought me some fishing tackle over the Christmas from a shop in Woodquay and we went to Salthill and threw out a line. I lost the bait thingy on the end of the line and ran away crying.

I did have two goldfish purchased from Mongan’s pet shop in Galway in August 1991 - it was my brother bought them actually. You should have seen us lugging the full goldfish bowl with the fish inside on a car journey from Galway to Dublin on the old road. The second and longest surviving fish died the night before the Dublin v Donegal All-Ireland final in 1992. I suppose that was a bad omen.

I know our neighbour dropped a whole Lough Corrib fish into us on multiple occasions, which was dead sound of him. He was always at me to go out fishing with him, and I said I would, but I never did, and now he’s too ill to go.

Perhaps that fish was not a mackerel but a cod. Or maybe a brown trout.

Where does the Donegal Catch species of fish swim? I genuinely don’t know.

Mackerel are easy to catch, in that you need only leave down a feather, or even a shiny hook, and they’ll bite it. They do fight like fuck once they are caught, though, unlike say a pollack, who is like a Man Utd team who goes 1-0 down and just decides “thats it” and becomes dead weight.

But mackerel will only be caught at sea.

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Is it pollack or pollock or are these different things? Or is it like Lahinch/Lehinch?

The name Pollock has gone into folklore in Manchester football in terms of dragging a team down, but it wasn’t United.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCbepaX5a5A&ab_channel=Iwilltellyou…

It’s pollock. I spelt it arseways. Bigger fish, in general, than a mackerel. Rarer. You’d catch them every now and then. One at a time.

Mackerel you could literally catch by the dozen if you’d enough hooks

I did a Google and you can apparently spell it either way.

So the Pollock are like Mark Foley (Cork) - a gentle giant, while the mackerel are like Mark Foley (Limerick), a narky, aggressive fucker?

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They don’t make as many good films as they used to.

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I saw all these films in the Savoy on O Connell st. I was in college on Mountjoy square and we used to head down at about 12 o clock in the day. A student ticket was about 2 quid and you could stay in there for the day, so with some studying of the timetable you could see 3 films for the two quid. We would stumble out onto O Connell st at about 8pm with a sore belly from a stone of stolen pick n mix and a barrel of paid for popcorn. Into Fibbers for 3 pints and the last 40 bus (the peasant express) home. Baoibhinn an la e.

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One of the Schools of English in Mountjoy Square was it?

I did Marketing. I genuinely started the course not knowing what marketing was and was only marginally wiser when i finished.

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David Johansen, lead singer of the New York Dolls. Also the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged.

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Morrissey will be distraught.

Angie Stone :cry:

This was a banger

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Funnily enough, most people working in marketing are the same.

COMAD cunt