{"id":215108,"date":"2025-12-28T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215108\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:12:13","slug":"off-to-the-great-gig-in-the-sky-the-musicians-writers-and-cultural-icons-we-lost-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215108\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to the great gig in the sky: the musicians, writers and cultural icons we lost in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom Manch\u00e1n Magan to Claudia Cardinale and Brian Wilson, the world is a duller place now that so many great cultural lights have left us\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some of those we have lost in 2025, clockwise from main photograph, Manch\u00e1n Magan, Hugh Wallace, Linda Nolan, David Hanly, Jennifer Johnston and Se\u00e1n Rocks. Photos: Paul McCarthy, Gareth Chaney, Ulf Andersen and Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SN Deaths combo.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Some of those we have lost in 2025, clockwise from main photograph, Manch\u00e1n Magan, Hugh Wallace, Linda Nolan, David Hanly, Jennifer Johnston and Se\u00e1n Rocks. Photos: Paul McCarthy, Gareth Chaney, Ulf Andersen and Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We need more dancing at funerals. That was the big takeaway from one I \u00adattended in early October. After being handed acorns from the \u00addeceased\u2019s own self-planted woodland, mourners from across the world of arts, culture, ecology and language filed into the chapel at his alma mater, Gonzaga College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Michael Keegan-Dolan of Teac Damsa took to the altar and cheerily insisted we all rise and follow him through elemental dance choreography, who were we to refuse? After all, there was nothing ordinary about the person being eulogised that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Manch\u00e1n Magan to Claudia Cardinale and Brian Wilson, the world is a duller place now that so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1578,93,50372,61,60,6085],"class_list":["post-215108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-hilary-white","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}