Legendary country singer Riche Kavanagh was the victim of malicious editing on his Wikipedia page. A user updated his entry on the site to state he had died Sunday morning, May 2nd from a heart attack in Carlow General Hospital. This set twitter alight and indeed it leaked to Facebook too where people stated posting videos of his works in commemoration. I myself was duped. But alas the legend was alive. There was no word from any official source, only a night time DJ on ROS FM announced it, upon seeing it on twitter himself. The game was up the truth was told, well found through some digging around online.
Of course the news was not entirely unbelievable. Last February he announced he is suffering from Parkinson’s and through the last few years his public performances have lessened due to declining health.
Although he was never a man to sit down and wait for his time to come, he became a nationwide star by his unique musical talents.
Long live Riche!
In his honour, here is my favourite from him, as it is many others:
Further reading:
Check out Tubridy show on 2fm, where Richie was on talking to Ryan saying he was alive and well http://2fm.rte.ie/show/86
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