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BAGATELLE FRONTMAN AND lead singer Liam Reilly has died, aged 65.
In a statement, his family said the musician and songwriter passed away “suddenly but peacefully” at his home yesterday.
We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.
His influential band, formed in Dundalk in 1978, had hits such as Second Violin and the iconic Summer in Dublin.
Reilly’s Somewhere in Europe came second in the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest.
His family have appealed for privacy.
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Ah, the Saudis….a great bunch o lads.
Really?! I am shocked…NOT!
@Optimus Prime: I am shocked that it took them 1yr to crack the phone encryption. I thought they bragged about a company which sold decryption software for iPhone.
Maybe US is just choosing right time to out the news.
How do you know someone has an iPhone? They tell you.
@Oretani Wildlife: How do you know someone has no value to contribute to a discussion but craves attention like a little child, irrelevant jokes.
@Oretani Wildlife: what a contribution!
@Oretani Wildlife: that joke is about 9 years old. Well done.
@Oretani Wildlife: Some would argue that the only people who talk about iPhones are the ones that don’t own one!
Touchy touchy, boys. You should call round and brighten up my day.
Okay so it was Saudi nationals that carried out the 911 attack and this one but they are big big customers of the arms exporters and bomb industry, and allies in the fight against whoever is the current bogey man.
When you train Saudi Army pilots in the USA and U.K. what can go wrong ?
Saudi kingdom is an abomination in the 21century, one family controlling trillions of dollars of the country’s wealth for their personal benefit. I’m a small capitalist but for such a regime to exist, and bizarrely supported by the USA, while US pretend to preach democracy, US foreign policy has always displayed a total hypocrisy to its espoused values, if there was any benefit to themselves. America first, yes that sums it up, f.u,,. the rest of the world. this cosy relationship with Saudi, us forces based there, is why Osama bin laden was motivated to start his war with the USA.
Get Carrie and Saul on the case!
@John Quill: Carrie’s watching Russian opera these days…(spoiler alert).
@Declan McArdle: saw it
It’s amazing that the terrorist have a 5 year old iPhone with all that info on it.
So the group behind it claimed it was them but the US gov is arguing that all iPhone users should have their privacy undermined, definitely by US government more than likely by others and also possibly non state actors because they weren’t 100% sure when the terrorist organisation said “that’s our guy!”, about a guy from a nation that produced 9/11 and many other attackers, that they were telling the truth?
I mean, if this stopped an incoming attack or something I could see the logic in having a debate but there’s no way this is worth even considering undermining everyone’s privacy, it’s law enforcement being either pedantic or too lazy (to trace his contact to the group through traditional means) or more than likely not trusting their Saudi counterparts which is a crack in the wall that should not be wall papered over yet again, especially at such a great cost to privacy.
Time to invade Iraq again so.
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