Is it just me or is
the weeping adulation for Gerry Ryan gone beyond beyond?
Yes, it's sad for his children that he died. But the coverage has been over the top - half of the main news on the national broadcaster - and worst of all, yet another opportunity for Fr Brian D'Arcy to appear in public. Westlife singing in the wings and the increasingly odious U2 joining by satellite. Eulogies by all and sundry, quotes from Arthur C Clarke's 2001, A Spare Odyssey, engraved on the coffin, and what m...
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