Rory had a good stint at the trough in fairness to him.
General John De Chastelain.
Gone to the great IRA arms dump in the sky.
I always imagined he was from Lisburn and did his shopping at Sprucefield.
General De Chastelain has apparently risen from the dead on Good Friday like Ger Loughnane (not on Good Friday).
Poet Gabriel Rosenstock, known to students of primary school Gaeilge school text books in the late 80s/early 90s
Sean Barrett (Former Ceann Comhairle and Fine Gael TD for Doon Lehra - not the legendary voice over man who narrated Pele’s 1991 Eurosport documentary series “The Game Of Billions”)
Mircea Lucescu, legendary Romanian football manager who managed extensively in Romanian, Turkish, Italian and Ukrainian football, has died at the age of 80.
He was the manager of Romania as recently as the 1-0 play off defeat by Turkey 12 days ago.
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He was the face in the dugout for some
Many teams from behind the old iron curtain - dinamo and rapid Bucharest,shaktar Donetsk , dinamo Kiev, zenit st Petersburg, and also galatasary besiktas and inter Milan
I love/d a good Iron Curtain / South Eastern European manager. Valeri Lobanovksi, Fatih Terim, Senol Gunes, Vujadin Boskov, Radomir Antic, Zdenek Zeman, Dr. Jo.
Just saw there that Dimitar Penev who managed Bulgaria in 1994 died on January 4th this year also at the age of 80.
Yugoslavia followed by Romania were the sexiest Eastern European teams. The flair, the technique, oh the technique.
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Yugoslavia produced some amount of tidy footballers
Nearly as many as Dublin and New Zealand.
Best known for stealing Kelly off Zack in Saved by the bell.
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Henry Shefflin?