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Bono, Eddie Vedder among mourners at the funeral of Glen Hansard
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CityNews Toronto
DUBLIN (AP) — Hundreds of mourners including Irish musicians and entertainers filled a Dublin cathedral on Tuesday for the funeral of Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who died in a motorcycle crash last week at the age of 56.
Actors Steve Coogan and Chris O’Dowd and musicians including Bono, Hozier, Declan O’Rourke and Imelda May were in the congregation alongside friends, family and fans who had queued for hours outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
A large crowd watched on big screens outside as pallbearers carried a wicker coffin topped with flowers into the cathedral.
U2’s Bono said of Hansard: “Everyone who met him, they just remembered the day they met him.”
Hansard was the longtime front man of Irish rock band The Frames and played a member of a Dublin soul band in the hit 1991 movie “The Commitments.”