Alec Lingiewicz

I’d love it if we made it.

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

RIP Glen Hansard 🌹

[Today FM 💛 @TodayFM]

A look back at the story behind Glen Hansard's Oscar win.

"Make art." ❤️

[Niecy O'Keeffe @NiecyOKeeffe]

🎶 So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate'er befalls
Then gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all 🎶

Good night, Glen and Sláinte. 🥃💚
#GlenHansard

[Brian Tallerico @Brian_Tallerico]

Glen Hansard’s voice could often make me cry before. Now it feels like it always will.

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

From @springsteen on the loss of Glen Hansard

[Niecy O'Keeffe @NiecyOKeeffe]

The Christmas Eve busk this year needs to be loud enough for him to hear. Turn up. And Turn it up. For Glen.
#GlenHansard

[Variety @Variety]

Oscar winner Glen Hansard ("Once") has died in a motorcycle crash at 56 years old. He won the Academy Award for best original song with "Falling Slowly."

“With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard who passed away, in the early hours of this morning, following a road traffic accident in Dublin," a statement from his agency reads. "Glen’s family is deeply shocked and heartbroken by this tragic loss and respectfully requests privacy at this extremely difficult time. The family is grateful for the support they have received and wishes to thank the emergency services who attended the scene."

https://t.co/YUoXsI7kOO

[Adam Lynch @AdamLynch27]

RIP Glen Hansard

A tragic loss

Here he is singing Fairytale of New York at Shane McGowans funeral which is one of the greatest videos over

[Pádraig Belton @PadraigBelton]

I will always think of @Glen_Hansard busking on Grafton Street each Christmas Eve for the Simon community and the homeless - the Big Busk, which he started (and which inevitably also involved Bono and Sinéad O'Connor), was a huge part of returning to Dublin for the holidays, for me and many like me, living away.

It made sense to someone who was himself a former Dublin busker - he quit school in Ballymun at 13 to play on his city's streets. He even played an Irish busker on a Simpsons episode ("In the Name of the Grandfather"). The Commitments, The Frames, the Swell Season came after, and so did an Oscar and an Emmy. And still every Christmas he was out busking for the homeless, and getting every other Irish musician to, too.

And Once was both the perfect romantic comedy - the right amount bittersweet, no happy endings but we can value the moments of closeness we get, as long as they last - and the perfect Dublin film. I danced to Falling Slowly at my wedding.

We're all Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guys today. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

[Benjamin Solak @BenjaminSolak]

I have an extremely bold and controversial take: the Patriots should not trade Kayshon Boutte, play him besides A.J. Brown and Romeo Doubs, and simply have a very good receiving room

[esra @1989healy]

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE

[purple🍃✨ @doseofpurple_]

George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.

It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans across the country. I expect the president to reheat debunked conspiracy theories about the repeatedly litigated and audited and confirmed 2020 presidential election in Georgia, an election that Donald Trump lost. And let me be very clear about this: if the President declares Georgia's election illegitimate, or if the President declares Georgia's sitting United States Senators illegitimate, he is declaring Georgia voters illegitimate. It's Donald Trump who tried to defraud Georgia voters in that election, Donald Trump who tried to commit election fraud when he called Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger -- and it was caught on tape, and you should play the tape to your viewers today -- and badgered and bullied Georgia's top election official to 'find him' the votes that he needed to win in a state where he had lost."

[jezz @JezziiB]

Screw-worm in the meat.
Cyclosporiasis in the produce.
During a food affordability crisis.
During a massive cut in SNAP & WIC.

Again, elections have consequences.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

The President is using a prime time White House address, to lie to the American people about a conspiracy theory for sake of election interference.

He will absolutely use this to interfere with the midterms.

[NBC10 Boston @NBC10Boston]

A Sail Boston sunrise. Tall ships participating in today’s Sail Boston extravaganza are seen with various stages of this mornings sunrise, starting with a Massachusetts state police helicopter doing a quick scan of the area and then lots of colors. 📸@pictureboston

[Watch King @watchking69]

Unironically haaland has the potential to completely change soccer and inspire the future generation to stop the flopping and just play the game like men