Significant people's (not celebrities) deaths

Current Affairs
701

I never played against Paul McCarthy BTW, he was on a team with Keane and Alan O Sullivan, two other outstanding players, a few years ahead of me.

702

Vitaly Churkin, the Russian Ambassador to the UN, has died suddenly in New York. :popcorn:

703

Desmond Connell has died.

704

Former Fine Gael TD and Tonight With Vincent Browne regular Peter Mathews has died aged 65.

705

That’s sad news. I was a regular Tonight With Vincent viewer when he was a guest staple - Vincent and Mathews had some very entertaining and heated exchanges.

706

I enjoyed his contributions in relation to the banking crisis circa 2009/10.

However, he made a bit of a tit of himself during the media debate over the X Case legislation that arose in 2013 after the Savita Halappanavar case broke in late 2012.

707

Real Madrid great and 1958 Ballon d’Or winner Raymond Kopa passed away this morning aged 85.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5-4kJDWUAAWOSV.jpg

708

John Surtees.
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The only man to have won world championships on motorbikes and in Formula One.

709

Maureen Haughey.

Daughter of Sean Lemass and wife of the late former Taoiseach Charles.

710

I’d say she’s at the gates roaring for Terry Keane to come out

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711

91, god love her, it must have been a difficult enough life on many levels being married to that man.
Mad to think Charlie would be 91 if alive today

712

Difficult? She lived like a Queen because of what he achieved. Show a bit of respect you prick.

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713

He achieved? Fuck off you jennet, he stole more like.

714

An old TFK dilemma.

715

He put this country on the map, all a cunt like you did was run away. You wouldn’t be have been fit to breath the same air as a stateman such as him.

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716

Conor McGregor put this country on the map, pal.

717

What fuckimg map did he put us on? He stole from the state, he used the votes of the people to enrich himself and still fuckwits like you aggrandise him. You mug.

718

Ah, I think you’ll find Nicky English put us on the map.

719

Charles Haughey was our greatest ever statesman, the only leader we ever had on a par with someone like Margaret Thatcher

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720

I wouldn’t expect a roaster like fitzy to understand international politics. They must sneer at paddy the eejit beyont in Australia