Ronnie drew, r.i.p.

[POB]

Sad news - Ronnie Drew, one of the founding members of The Dubliners died earlier today.

[POB]

Not sure what spellchecking gremlins got at my post title - it got decapitalised. It should have read "Ronnie Drew, R.I.P."

Here's one of the few times "Top of the Pops" had anything worth watching on it.

[Jim Broyles]

Only the first word of every thread title on the Cafe is capitalized. It can look strange at times, but that's how it is.

[Eddie Sheehy]

Devastated. I was heartbroken when Luke went...now Ronnie.
Go ndeana Dia trocaire ar a h-anam.

[Dave Hanson]

First Luke, then Ciaran and now Ronnie, only the two mandolin players left from the original band, so sad.

Dave H

[Bertram Henze]

Ronnie's voice was the first thing that attracted me to Irish music long ago.
It was not the voice of one who is easily afraid, so knowing he is passing on to another world moves me, but I am not sad. Or, as it says in one of the songs I heard from him, "It's almost over now, and now I'm easy".


Bertram

[timmy]

A life very well led.

Immortal in hearts and Irish music.

[labraid]

noooooooooooooooooooooo!



Never a stage presence like his... theirs....
They were #1.

Always will be.

rd: "<indiscernable ramblings to the non-Irish> ...It's very dry in here.. <crghhh>"
crowd: <laughs>

bd: <raising a jar high, high>

[dave17120]

'Ronnie has left his earthly tour for one of the heavens... they need him up there... it's a little too quiet and pious. God is lonely for a voice louder than His own.' Bono