{"id":726252,"date":"2026-08-03T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726252\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:01:10","slug":"glen-hansard-its-just-a-loss-to-ireland-fans-pay-tribute-at-public-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726252\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Hansard: &#8216;It&#8217;s just a loss to Ireland&#8217;: Fans pay tribute at public wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A public wake is being held in Dublin for the Irish singer and songwriter Glen Hansard ahead of his funeral on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3ekn9d37qvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar winning musician died in a single vehicle motorbike crash<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The wake is taking place in the Baroque Chapel at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Kilmainham, Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A queue of hundreds of people who came to pay their respects snaked around the venue on Monday morning with thousands expected over the course of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The queue moved quickly but people continued to arrive at IMMA all morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been to loads of his concerts and his music was fantastic. His outlook on life was brilliant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We felt we had to be here,&#8221; said Ronan Buckley, who was joined by his wife Rebecca and their two children, Leah and Lily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have the kids here today and they&#8217;re also fans through us. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just a massive loss to Ireland,&#8221; said Rebecca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A public wake is being held in Dublin for the Irish singer and songwriter Glen Hansard ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}