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Mary Lee Milroy, dead at 100.

I've never actually met him, but I definitely remember seeing that scooter around town during pride.

Dave Sims, former Gloucester forward who gained three England caps in 1998, has died aged 52.

the time is always right

Ed Garner, a surfer who found fame in 'beach' movies alongside Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon has died aged 77.

Sir Hugh Munro died 103 years ago today; he was a mountaineer who first identified and listed the Scottish mountains higher than 3000 feet, after whom they are named. He died aged 63, a victim of the post-war 'Spanish' flu epidemic.

Ireland's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Jim Kelly has died 'suddenly'. He was previously Ireland's ambassador to Canada.

Now he's 85!

They're all at it.

Lochhead, with 2 'h's btw.

I remember him playing for the Villa when I was a kid.

Betty Codona, founder of the UK's first Women's Basketball team, awarded the OBE in 1998 for services to the sport, has died aged 83. https://www.instagram.com/p/CbPqKtZswov/?utm_medium=copy_link

College Basketball looks fun...

John Kander, half of the Kander & Ebb song writing partnership (he did the tunes), is 95 today. Listing Cabaret & Chicago amongst his credits, this one was also a big success.

Lu Liang-huan, Taiwanese golfer who was runner-up to Lee Trevino in the 1971 British Open has died aged 85.

Some Vogon poetry for you: Oh saint Patrick he drove out the snakes With his prayers but that’s not all it takes For the snake symbolizes An evil that rises And hides in your heart As it breaks And the evil has risen my friends From the darkness that lives in some men But in sorrow and fear That’s when saints can appear To drive out those old snakes once again And they struggle for us to be free From the psycho in this human family Ireland’s sorrow and pain Is now the Ukraine And saint Patrick’s name now Zelenskyy Did I say Vogon? I meant Bono. This is, by all accounts, what Nancy Pelosi read out at the Friends of Ireland lunch today.

Akira Takarada has died, 14th March. aged 87.

I was a 4 on Worldle, recognised the outline but was barking up the wrong tree location-wise; also, by now, I should have some idea of distances between places on opposite hemispheres! Also 4 on Wordle.

It's 64 years since the death of Dubliner John Pius Boland, at age 87. In 1896, as an academic on a study break in Athens, he was persuaded by a friend to enter the tennis competition in the newly revived Olympic Games; thus he became the first tennis gold-medallist, winning the singles and then the doubles with the German player he beat in the singles event. He's reported to have insisted on the Irish flag being flown instead of the Union flag, though this has since been (reportedly) disproved. He was later an Irish Parliamentary Party MP for South Kerry at Westminster, from 1900 to 1918.

P&O Ferries sacks 800 staff and replaces them with scabs agency workers. I hope, if they persist in this course of action, they never sail again!

The clues were there...

apropos of nothing specific, thread here on sterling detective work by Toby Hadoke tracking down the Doctor Who 'Coal Hill' kids!

Ralph Terry dead aged 86

Ralph Terry a hit here for Chilean Way

Grenville Davey, sculptor, 1992 Turner Prize winner, died aged 60 on 28 Feb.