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Stars are flying in from around the world to attend the singers funeral in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, as mourners sang and danced in a jolly farewell.

Shane MacGowans widow says the singer urged Johnny Depp to forgive his ex-wife Amber Heard as he genuinely believed in forgiveness in eulogy.

Fresh from sharing his second album Look Over The Wall, See The Sky, hometown hero John Francis Flynn offered up an industrial, mystical and unforgettable sh...

MacGowan told the stories of people on the edges of society. He never shirked from their degradation, pain and humanity while also elevating their lives into something rich, beautiful and mythic

From the archive: How The Irish Times reviewed Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, the band’s second album, in 1985

From his gilded beginnings at private schools, MacGowan transformed himself into the drunken icon of Irish music, a man who first hit the news pages under the headline: Cannablism at Clash gig.

Shane MacGowan has died aged 65....

There's no band quite like them.

Death of Fairytale of New York singer Shane MacGowan comes after a prolonged period of ill health

Shane MacGowan, The Pogues singer of Fairytale of New York, has died aged 65.