{"id":574576,"date":"2026-08-04T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574576\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:24:09","slug":"bono-among-mourners-at-funeral-of-oscar-winning-songwriter-glen-hansard-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574576\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono among mourners at funeral of Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;He was a father figure&#8217; &#8211; Hansard&#8217;s brotherpublished at 14:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man with short red hair stands behind a golden eagle. He wears grey suit jacket and navy suit.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/60283cfb-b67a-4a80-87a9-3652615da43f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1647\" height=\"926\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hansard&#8217;s brother Richard describes him as a &#8220;mad uncle&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His younger brother Richard is paying tribute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was a son, a brother and, I promise you, a mad uncle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Due to the 16-year-age gap, Richard says his older sibling was &#8220;more than just a brother, he was a father figure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of the earliest memories we have of our brother is the light of his scooter coming down the driveway. That light meant that the whole evening was about to change. Change for the good. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You knew the evening would be filled with songs and story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard says when Glen would leave he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t sleep, because the night had now become filled with possibility&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He continues: &#8220;We have inherited all the magical, colourful words, hugs, talks, madness, sadness, insightful manic beauty that a brother, a husband, a father could ever give.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thank you, Glen. Thank you, brother.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;He was a father figure&#8217; &#8211; Hansard&#8217;s brotherpublished at 14:41 BST 14:41 BST Image caption, Hansard&#8217;s brother Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-574576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}