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U2, Ryan’s favourite group who he supported throughout their career, sent a message from New York. “Calling from New York on the Ryan Line, Ryan Line still open,” said lead singer Bono before the band performed their track With Or Without You.
“Goodbye Gerry, see you down the road,” the frontman added. – mirror.co.uk
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Bono, lead singer with Irish supergroup U2, recorded a special version of the bands signature song ‘With Or Without You’ as a tribute to Irish radio host Gerry Ryan, who was buried Thursday.
In the recording Bono wished the radio presenter well as the song filled the Saint John the Baptist Church in Clontarf, a church with strong connections to Gerry Ryan’s family.
Ryan was baptised and married there. His children were also christened there and his parents’ funerals were conducted at the church.
The Irish presenter made his final journey from his family home in the Dublin suburbs where his estranged wife and five children live.
Also among the mourners was Irish President Mary McAleese, a friend of Ryan’s who lectured him at Trinity College.
Ryan was found dead on Friday on his bedroom floor in his Dublin flat by his girlfriend, Melanie Verwoerd.
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Gerry Ryan
ABOUT 10,000 people have signed books of condolence for RTÉ broadcaster Gerry Ryan, who will be buried today.
A large crowd is expected to gather for this morning’s funeral Mass in Clontarf, north Dublin, which will also be broadcast on 2fm radio.
Gardaí have warned of traffic diversions in the area and overflow parking has been put in place at nearby sports clubs.
The public continued to sign the books of condolence at the Mansion House and RTÉ yesterday.
More than 5,000 people had signed the book at Dublin’s Mansion House by last evening while more than 4,000 people have signed the book at RTÉ.
The body of the RTÉ presenter was found by his partner Melanie Verwoerd in his apartment on Leeson Street in Dublin last Friday afternoon.
The results of the postmortem have not been made public, but Ryan’s family believe he died of a massive heart attack in the early hours of Friday.
The body of the 53-year-old lay in repose at his family home in Clontarf yesterday where a private wake was held for friends and family.
The funeral Mass will be celebrated by Fr Michael Collins at the Church of St John the Baptist on Clontarf Road at 11.30am.
The church is where Ryan was married and where his mother’s funeral was held three years ago. It accommodates only 300 people.
Loudspeakers will be set up in the grounds of the church and crowds are expected along the short route from the Ryan family home on Castle Avenue.
The funeral can be heard on 2fm. This is the first time the radio station has broadcast a Mass.
It will also be shown via webcam on both the parish and RTÉ websites.
The Ryan family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, well-wishers should make a donation to their personal charity of choice.
The burial and house are private.
Burial takes place at Dardistown Cemetery in Cloghran.
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Killing Bono
An unreleased song composed by U2 around 30 years ago is to be revealed in the new film Killing Bono.
The song, Secret Mission, was recorded by the band shortly after they formed but it has never been heard by the public before.
Despite being three decades old, the song is only coming to light now because of the film’s music producer, Ciaran Gribbin, who was given the thumbs- up by the band to rework some of their earliest material for the actors to perform.
The Derry singer said he was brought in as a music supervisor and producer for the highly anticipated film and found it a “dream come true” to work with the raw song.
“Hopefully everyone will be really happy with it,” he said.
“It’s an absolute dream come true. I’ve been writing music for a long, long time – I did eight songs for the movie – but it remains to be seen how it came out in the end. I hope the public will get it. I’m confident with what I’ve got though.
“It was written before U2 ever existed. They never officially released it, they recorded it when they were teenagers and called themselves The Hype.
“They were probably 16 or 17, it’s one of their first ever songs. You can hear where they were going with it though. It has that early punk angst that you would find in a teen band – but there are hints of where they were going with October in there also.
Gribbin said the majority of people involved in the film have close ties to the legendary band.
“There’s a strong U2 connection with the team actually making the film. One of the producers was U2′s agent when they first got signed, so they obviously know and trust him,” he added.
He approached them saying they needed an early song for that first school gig scene, and they were happy to oblige.
The singer, who performs under the stage name Joe Echo, said that he hopes his version does U2 justice.
Killing Bono just been picked up by Paramount Pictures and is set for release in the UK by the end of the year.
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U2 frontman Bono is set to book a loss of $140m (£92m) after Palm announced a $1.2bn deal to sell itself to personal computer giant Hewlett-Packard.
Bono’s private equity venture, Elevation Partners, owns an approximate 30pc stake in Palm, having invested $460m in the struggling handset maker in 2007 and 2008. The H-P deal values Palm’s equity at $961m – the rest of the deal price is debt – meaning Elevation’s stake will be worth roughly $320m.
Palm, which began life in 1992 as one of the companies at the forefront of the personal digital assistant (PDA), has struggled of late as a result of lagging sales and increasing marketing costs, downgrading sales estimates for the current quarter by more than half in March.
Palm put itself up for sale earlier this month, amid speculation of offers from Lenovo of China and HTC of Taiwan.
But H-P said late on Wednesday it has reached an agreement to buy Palm, as part of a concerted attempt by the world’s largest computer maker to make its presence felt in the smart phone market.
The all-cash deal values Palm’s shares at $5.70 each, a 23pc premium to last night’s closing price of $4.63, although considerably lower than the $18.09 it reached last year following the release of its Palm Pre handset.
Bono’s private equity venture, Elevation Partners, owns an approximate 30pc stake in Palm, having invested $460m in the struggling handset maker in 2007 and 2008. The H-P deal values Palm’s equity at $961m – the rest of the deal price is debt – meaning Elevation’s stake will be worth roughly $320m.
