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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Healy52003 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 4:25pm
Amazed that its the same guy (Vince Clarke) in both Erasure and Yazoo. Definitely has a unique sound 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Denis Irwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 4:27pm
Originally posted by Healy52003 Healy52003 wrote:

Amazed that its the same guy (Vince Clarke) in both Erasure and Yazoo. Definitely has a unique sound 



Was in Depcehe Mode as well. One of the founding members
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Healy52003 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 4:39pm
Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

Originally posted by Healy52003 Healy52003 wrote:

Amazed that its the same guy (Vince Clarke) in both Erasure and Yazoo. Definitely has a unique sound 



Was in Depcehe Mode as well. One of the founding members

He has some CV for sure 

The Assembly another band of his 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote lassassinblanc Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 4:42pm
Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

Originally posted by Healy52003 Healy52003 wrote:

Amazed that its the same guy (Vince Clarke) in both Erasure and Yazoo. Definitely has a unique sound 



Was in Depcehe Mode as well. One of the founding members

Yep left after their first album, He wrote Just Can't Get Enough Wink


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote zizu Kilbane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 4:58pm
Originally posted by Deane Deane wrote:

Originally posted by Bandwagon Bandwagon wrote:

Yeah defo not true, Irish international Bill Lacey was another who played for them in the 20s. His death notice confirms he was catholic.


A number of sources say this online 

They might all be coming from the same incorrect source but there are plenty of more articles that say it. 


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Jon Flanagan was capped by England.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hotlips_Hoolahan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Jul 2022 at 4:53pm
Liam and Noel Gallagher's mother has a thick Irish accent.
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Sure why wouldn't she, she's from Charlestown!  
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Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, announces he has welcomed a second child with his stepdaughter - who he raised since she was 4 years old. 

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Pat Spillane's daughter is a model for the appropriately named Assets Modelling Agency.
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You can't say 'Beer can' without sounding like a Jamaican saying 'bacon'.
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That there's a gay porn actor named Seamus O'Reilly, thanks to an article on The Irish Examiner.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BigPodge Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Aug 2022 at 4:24pm
Originally posted by Hotlips_Hoolahan Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

That there's a gay porn actor named Seamus O'Reilly, thanks to an article on The Irish Examiner.

Yeah.....sure....


 


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Joe Brolly is getting married to the woman who does the podcast with Tommy Tiernan and Hector, who also happens to be a third cousin of Sleepy Joe Biden

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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Joe Brolly is getting married to the woman who does the podcast with Tommy Tiernan and Hector, who also happens to be a third cousin of Sleepy Joe Biden



Was getting worried reading that last bit for sec LOL
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86% of the German Army were killed or wounded in Russia in WW2. Just 14% were killed or wounded in Normandy, North Africa, Italy, Balkans etc.
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Originally posted by jamo1 jamo1 wrote:

86% of the German Army were killed or wounded in Russia in WW2. Just 14% were killed or wounded in Normandy, North Africa, Italy, Balkans etc.

I'm not surprised. Russia was a bloodbath.


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Originally posted by jamo1 jamo1 wrote:

86% of the German Army were killed or wounded in Russia in WW2. Just 14% were killed or wounded in Normandy, North Africa, Italy, Balkans etc.

more german tanks destroyed in the 3 day battle of kursk than were deployed to the west 
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