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Peaches Geldof dead aged 25 - MOD NOTE: NO JOKES

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  • #392
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    elefant wrote: »
    Strange post. Maybe he genuinely didn't know?

    Also, how is it 'the public's duty' to show the up-most respect for everyone who dies?

    You buy all the papers and read the obits and stay logged into rip.ie and be very very respectful of all the deaths.
    Im guessing.


  • #393
    GenieOz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭GenieOz


    on the river wrote: »
    Please i ask you stop your sarcastic comments. If you want to have personal jibes at people who are dead please do it else where.

    please show respect for the people who have passed on.

    The families of the deceased are entitled to respect and support from the public.

    it is the public's duty to show the upmost respect to the deseased.

    fúcking lol.

    anyway, RIP to her, tis very sad.


  • #394
    Dubl07
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    frostyjacks wrote: »
    Thought Bob's press release was a bit oddly worded - "she was the most bonkers of all of us". Hardly a grieving tribute to his daughter. RTE were trying to link it into the state visit as well on the six one news. Jesus wept, have we lost the run of ourselves.
    StupidLikeAFox wrote: »
    hmmm, heres the full statement, its a little more touching than how you represented it:
    Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. Writing ‘was’ destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable? We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is. Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken. Bob, Jeanne, Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Geldof

    It's not a statement from Bob alone. It sounds as if they were talking about her most endearing qualities as a family and wrote the statement together, led by Bob. In those terms, bonkers probably means something like joyously eccentric rather than certifiable. Context, context, context.


  • #395
    Ann Landers
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    I was never mad keen on Peaches, but she seemed a very devoted mammy. Very sad. :(

    Few celeb deaths make me feel gutted but this is one. Stephen Gately hit me the same way, even though I was never a Boyzone fan, he was just so young. Richard Whiteley as well. :o


  • #396
    eviltimeban
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    Dubl07 wrote: »
    It's not a statement from Bob alone. It sounds as if they were talking about her most endearing qualities as a family and wrote the statement together, led by Bob. In those terms, bonkers probably means something like joyously eccentric rather than certifiable. Context, context, context.

    And an awareness that they were all considered a bit "weird".

    Bonkers is kind of nice though. I know a few girls who fit that description and I can imagine that Peaches was well bonkers but in a nice way. He speculated.


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  • #397
    safetyboy
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    Sky news interviewing Midgure

    Sky news "You have 3 kids you must know how Bob is feeling"

    Midge "No I have four and not lost any how would I know how he is feeling"


    Morto


  • #398
    redappple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭redappple


    Poor Peaches - she truly lived for her children may she rest in peace. Enda Brady from Sky has mentioned SAD as cause of death speaking to Tubridy this morning.

    I initially thought it was odd that our President was making a statement on this matter but it's because they were due to meet Bob as part of the state visit they are currently on.


  • #399
    Ann Landers
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    safetyboy wrote: »
    Sky news interviewing Midgure

    Sky news "You have 3 kids you must know how Bob is feeling"

    Midge "No I have four and not lost any how would I know how he is feeling"


    Morto

    Don't know if Midge would be Bob's biggest fan!


  • #400
    porsche959
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    Ann Landers wrote: »
    Don't know if Midge would be Bob's biggest fan!

    They wrote the Feed the World song together. Presumably why Sky interviewed him in the first place.


  • #401
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,988 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Dont really know much about Peaches Geldof but its so sad that she has 2 young boys and has passed away :(


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  • #402
    Ann Landers
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    porsche959 wrote: »
    They wrote the Feed the World song together.

    I know that.


  • #403
    TwoShedsJackson
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    safetyboy wrote: »
    Sky news interviewing Midgure

    Sky news "You have 3 kids you must know how Bob is feeling"

    Midge "No I have four and not lost any how would I know how he is feeling"


    Morto

    Was it Kay Burley by any chance?


  • #404
    Donkey Oaty
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    The Sky News interview with Midge Ure is below - to be fair, it's not quite the icy response that the quote above implies. (40 seconds in)



  • #405
    Ilyana 2.0
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    It was a poorly-thought out question IMO. Ure answered it honestly but you could tell he wasn't too impressed.


  • #406
    frostyjacks
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    Still something not quite right about the circumstances. Strange that the police were rang before an ambulance. She does have form for drug taking.


  • #407
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    frostyjacks wrote: »
    Still something not quite right about the circumstances. Strange that the police were rang before an ambulance. She does have form for drug taking.

    It was a welfare call, so police would be required on scene to break in to the property


  • #408
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    frostyjacks wrote: »
    Still something not quite right about the circumstances. Strange that the police were rang before an ambulance. She does have form for drug taking.

    Not really. It's likely that when emergency services were called, police and ambulance were despatched at the same time and the police arrived first.


  • #409
    Electric Sheep
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    Mr Simpson wrote: »
    It was a welfare call, so police would be required on scene to break in to the property

    I hope that was not really the case. That would mean she was alone in the house with the kids, probably.


  • #410
    jane82
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    So she is posting on twitter one night and the family think its important for police to break the door the next day?
    Im guessing she sent a round of text messages out stating her intentions if this is the case.


  • #411
    dee_mc
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    jane82 wrote: »
    So she is posting on twitter one night and the family think its important for police to break the door the next day?
    Im guessing she sent a round of text messages out stating her intentions if this is the case.

    We don't know that. There's no real reason to assume what you're assuming, so maybe it's best to wait for the autopsy report (I think that's the correct term) instead of speculating.


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  • #412
    iguana
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    jane82 wrote: »
    So she is posting on twitter one night and the family think its important for police to break the door the next day?
    Im guessing she sent a round of text messages out stating her intentions if this is the case.

    What? If my mum, for example, had arranged to meet me tomorrow and I didn't show up, didn't answer my phone and didn't come to the door if she came around to see if I was ok, I sure as hell hope she'd either break in if she didn't have a key or call the emergency services. Which is irrelevant as we don't know that's what happened. If you call 999 and tell them you have found someone dead, they will send the police out as standard procedure as when someone dies alone like that, the police have to conduct an investigation to rule out foul play.


  • #413
    Muise...
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    As a disgruntled barman said to me years ago, the night after Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, when no one knew anything but kept talking anyway, "she died of a shortness of breath."

    Does it really matter if it was drugs, suicide, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, an aneurysm, whatever? The woman went from troubled, bratty, wild young one (when we'd all have been shrugging it off as sad but inevitable) to a happy and self-aware person, mother, wife, daughter and friend. It is terribly sad for these people connected to her, but for herself, sounds like even if it was unfortunately early for her to die, she had her house in order. Good for her.


  • #414
    mikom
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    Muise... wrote: »
    As a disgruntled barman said to me years ago, the night after Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, when no one knew anything but kept talking anyway, "she died of a shortness of breath."

    Does it really matter if it was drugs, suicide, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, an aneurysm, whatever?

    Well if it was from horsing back a bad batch of yellow Mitsi's, then it would matter...


  • #415
    Muise...
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    mikom wrote: »
    Well if it was from horsing back a bad batch of yellow Mitsi's, then it would matter...

    To whom? You? Her people? - they're going to be fcuking sad no matter what it was.


  • #416
    Dubl07
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    jane82 wrote: »
    So she is posting on twitter one night and the family think its important for police to break the door the next day?
    Im guessing she sent a round of text messages out stating her intentions if this is the case.

    Cleaning lady, milkman, health visitor or a pal called for tea: if she had collapsed and was visible or if the children were audible with no response to knocking the door, I'd break in or call the emergency services.


  • #417
    nocoverart
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    Muise... wrote: »
    To whom? You? Her people? - they're going to be fcuking sad no matter what it was.

    I think Its very important for her family to have some closure on this tragedy.


  • #418
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Muise... wrote: »
    As a disgruntled barman said to me years ago, the night after Princess Diana was killed in a car crash, when no one knew anything but kept talking anyway, "she died of a shortness of breath."

    Does it really matter if it was drugs, suicide, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, an aneurysm, whatever?
    mikom wrote: »
    Well if it was from horsing back a bad batch of yellow Mitsi's, then it would matter...
    Muise... wrote: »
    To whom? You? Her people? - they're going to be fcuking sad no matter what it was.

    To anyone thinking of horsing back a handful of yellow Mitsi's.........


  • #419
    jane82
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    If you were missing the police would tell your mam to come back in 24 hours. Standard procedure. If the kids were there Id say it would have been reported by the press. Unless she died by the front door I doubt a milkman spotted her.


  • #420
    Oryx
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    nocoverart wrote: »
    I think Its very important for her family to have some closure on this tragedy.

    I would presume her family already have a fair idea what happened. It matters that they know. For the rest of us it's nothing but idle curiosity.


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  • #421
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    jane82 wrote: »
    If you were missing the police would tell your mam to come back in 24 hours. Standard procedure. If the kids were there Id say it would have been reported by the press. Unless she died by the front door I doubt a milkman spotted her.

    Thats for a missing person enquiry, not a welfare check at the property. Anyway, we're are only speculating, we can't kmow. Only time will tell


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