Katy French

RocketRaccoon

Jaysus I thought she was only dead 3-4 years at the most, that was a quick 10 years.

Drug addict died due to drugs, what is the shock here? Why are people talking about her? She was no different to the homeless junkie on the street the likes of her and her friends looked down on.

Crea

The biggest shock on this thread is that yer man is 48!!!!
I honestly would have put 65 on him. He's wrecked looking. Don't do drugs kids!

Nerdlingr

From wiki : The Taoiseach's aide de camp, Captain Michael Tracey, attended her funeral....

da fuk ???
The country really did lose the run of itself back in the celtic tiger years.

When rich people die of drugs people are still said 10 years later. When a model dies of a coke overdose the papers are saying how she is a victim, when Anto dies of a heroin overdose no one gives a fcuk.

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Crea wrote: »

The biggest shock on this thread is that yer man is 48!!!!
I honestly would have put 65 on him. He's wrecked looking. Don't do drugs kids!

Don’t work out. Kids.

Omackeral

PeterParker957 wrote: »

Snorted coke, died and then we all had suffer the "who was responsible ?" stories.

Spoiler alert - she was.

I remember when Bob Geldof's daughter died of an overdose the headline a couple of days later was "The Hunt For Peaches' Dealer"

PeterParker957

Omackeral wrote: »

I remember when Bob Geldof's daughter died of an overdose the headline a couple of days later was "The Hunt For Peaches' Dealer"

You're right there. Same situation.

retro:electro

PeterParker957 wrote: »

Other than "two bob promotions girl with a drug habit", which is completely accurate I have not called her "names".

Yes I despise a drug addict being held up as some kind of role model - and that Irish Times piece was naseating but play the ball not the (wo)man eh ?

You're tying yourself in knots over a girl who has been dead 10 years.
Why not just let those who want to write about her and remember her do so, and move on with your life?
Its feckin weird.

arayess

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Brunker was well established before Katie's death, she had her own column at that time and had been Miss Ireland so that's a bit unfair. Spot on about Ducie though

I can accept brunker was/is established but my point is that she is using frenches death and anniversary to further herself...which she is..

a classless(as usual) attempt to stay relevant. If she was truely in mourning she'd have some dignity.

Dancing Inferno

Happens every weekend. Drug dealers need to be executed.

weldoninhio

Dancing Inferno wrote: »

Happens every weekend. Drug dealers need to be executed.

Yeah, I hate when I’m out having a few pints and the local dealers corner me and force me to take drugs. :rollseyes:

Agent Coulson

Was your one who died of an OD after becoming a pro to feed her habit in Love/Hate based on Katy?

Ipso

A short time before her death two or three young men in either Waterford or Wexford died from a cocaine overdose, one of the tabloids had a front page exclusive from Katy French about the horrors of drugs.

Agent Coulson

That was very Gerry Ryan of her.

Wanderer2010

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

That guy is a pathetic waste of skin. A scumbag nobody desperate to be somebody.

Don't forget "handed a job by his daddy" as well so the pr!ck doesn't even know what its like to go for a job interview or work for someone that's not family.
Plus 48?? No fcuking WAY.

Homer

I think the 48 reference was his waist size .. had the displeasure of being in the same vicinity as him a couple of times a few years ago in nightclubs. Suffers from small man syndrome for sure.. A sad little bully..

Birneybau

EagererBeaver wrote: »

I simply can't believe that neither Barry Egan or Niamh Horan have anything on this yet. If their respective **** journalism skills were to mate and spawn, a story about the ten year anniversary of Katy French's death would be the perfect marker.

https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-features/barry-egan-on-katy-french-no-angel-no-icon-just-a-young-woman-who-loved-life-36373869.html

He's a fcuking bottom feeding dose.

Birneybau

Nerdlingr wrote: »

From wiki : The Taoiseach's aide de camp, Captain Michael Tracey, attended her funeral....

da fuk ???
The country really did lose the run of itself back in the celtic tiger years.

But but...she was the personification of the Celtic Tiger! Our Diana!

My scorn is directed towards the media of this country of the time and not that of a tragically short life.

EagererBeaver

Birneybau wrote: »

EagererBeaver wrote: »

I simply can't believe that neither Barry Egan or Niamh Horan have anything on this yet. If their respective **** journalism skills were to mate and spawn, a story about the ten year anniversary of Katy French's death would be the perfect marker.

https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-features/barry-egan-on-katy-french-no-angel-no-icon-just-a-young-woman-who-loved-life-36373869.html

He's a fcuking bottom feeding dose.

Ha, I spoke too soon. Awful bollocks altogether. There was a Brendan O'Connor article a few years ago along the lines of "Katy's final interview". She was talking about her insecurity and stuff, clearly came across as vulnerable etc. Asks her about her tits. You didn't get them done? Ok, will you get them done?

The pretence that any of these Indo or Sindo or Sunday World hacks gave a toss about her is hilarious. She was nothing more than word count to any of them. Parasites.

Sleeper12

arayess wrote:

the wolf makes an appearance this morning

Wow! He has aged a lot more than 10 years. I guess that lifestyle catches up on you

Bambi985

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Drug addict died due to drugs, what is the shock here? Why are people talking about her? She was no different to the homeless junkie on the street the likes of her and her friends looked down on.

Do people genuinely not get how the media and tabloids work, or are they being intentionally ignorant to prove some kind of point? If a celebrity dies unexpectedly, they are going to receive a high volume of coverage versus Mr Joe Bloggs from down the road who is not in the public eye. Just like the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Harry and Ms Markle, versus Mike and Sara next door who got engaged at the weekend. Or like Gerry Ryan, etc. So to that extent no, Katy wasn't just like any other homeless junkie, she was one of Ireland's biggest models and frequented the tabloids literally every day right up to the day that she passed away.

It's hard to believe she was just 24 when she died. I was about 22 at the time so just how young she was didn't really register at the time. 10 years later though - god 24 is a baby. Lord knows what kind of sh1t I was up to at 24. She seemed so much older at the time, both in looks and in interviews - I'd have put her at early 30s. But she really was so young and navigating such a weird, mental environment, a bombardment of media attention, cameras on all aspects of her life, hanging out with much older people, intermingling with this seedy underworld of older men, battling addiction. At the end of the day she took a big risk and that's the reason she's not here today, but god the crap we all get up to in our early 20s. You think you're invincible, you don't think you're ever at risk of anything major, death is just this abstract concept that you never imagine you're vulnerable to.

Bunny Colvin

Strange thread. Posters are trying to figure out why Katy French's death was widely publicised and other drug users death's weren't. Well, maybe because she was a 24 year model that was plastered all over the media and she ended up dying from an overdose. How could anyone be surprised that it was a big story at the time? Downplay her celebrity status if you want but she was everywhere. Constantly in the papers, mainly doing modelling shoots. I even remember her being on 'The Podge and Rodge Show'!
Other people then on their high horse calling her a junkie? Each to their own but the girl wasn't a monster. What happened was sad. Not much else to be said.

DoozerT6

I had never heard of her before she died - not to say that others hadn't, obviously they had. But I just don't understand the ongoing media furore about her, a decade later. She was a minor local celeb at best. She died of a drug overdose. It's not like she was murdered horribly, or died of a terrible disease, or disappeared mysteriously and was never found. She OD'd at a party. Just let it go!

SEPT 23 1989

You can't amass that much wealth without state protection

Collateral damage

Wheety

I see Brunker is in the papers again talking about French. She never seems to be in the papers because of her own talent :rolleyes:

Ipso

Wheety wrote: »

I see Brunker is in the papers again talking about French. She never seems to be in the papers because of her own talent :rolleyes:

There are no music festivals on now.

50HX

Wheety wrote: »

I see Brunker is in the papers again talking about French. She never seems to be in the papers because of her own talent :rolleyes:

Brunker....talent.......LOL

riffmongous

DoozerT6 wrote: »

I had never heard of her before she died - not to say that others hadn't, obviously they had. But I just don't understand the ongoing media furore about her, a decade later. She was a minor local celeb at best. She died of a drug overdose. It's not like she was murdered horribly, or died of a terrible disease, or disappeared mysteriously and was never found. She OD'd at a party. Just let it go!

She would have been well known on the social scene and friends of a lot of journos, I'd guess a lot of them would still remember her and her death

Grayditch

I still think she was made up to sell newspapers.

Will I Am Not

riffmongous wrote: »

She would have been well known on the social scene and friends of a lot of journos, I'd guess a lot of them would still remember her and her death

Remember away. No need to remind everyone else.

For Forks Sake

50HX wrote: »

Brunker....talent.......LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=velm73tnw-o

riffmongous

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

Remember away. No need to remind everyone else.

Well no one's being forced to read it

Ulysses Gaze

50HX wrote: »

Brunker....talent.......LOL

Now, now...she has two big talents.....

retro:electro

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

Remember away. No need to remind everyone else.

You're complaining about the coverage of the anniversary of her death while posting in a thread about the anniversary of her death.
If you didn't want to be reminded you know what to do..

Wheety

Wheety wrote: »

I see Brunker is in the papers again talking about French. She never seems to be in the papers because of her own talent :rolleyes:

Weekly sport would suit her

Outlaw Pete

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Now, now...she has two big talents....

Had.

RIP, boobs.

andekwarhola

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Had.

RIP, boobs.

Would have thought her overall success at tit reduction wasn't that successful.

Will I Am Not

anna080 wrote: »

You're complaining about the coverage of the anniversary of her death while posting in a thread about the anniversary of her death.
If you didn't want to be reminded you know what to do..

Not once did I complain. I haven’t seen any article or link. Just this thread.
I’m not bothered in the slightest, I just replied to a comment.
That ok with you?

Ulysses Gaze

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Had.

RIP, boobs.

splinter65

Watched 31 seconds of that clip.
She’s got some leather neck.

gerrybbadd

Wheety wrote: »

I see Brunker is in the papers again talking about French. She never seems to be in the papers because of her own talent :rolleyes:

Brunker sickens my hole. She has an opinion on absolutely everything. Anything that ever happened to anyone, it happened to her first. Even the Weinstien controversy, she had to weigh in on that because of course she was in a similar situation.

A no talent never was. And the rags that give her air time are worse

languagenerd

Like someone else said, I never registered how young she was. I was 16 in 2007, so she seemed much older to me. I wasn't (and still amn't) a fan of celebrity culture or gossip pages, but I think her death was a bit shocking because she was everywhere in the media just beforehand. Like 7 days earlier, she was being interviewed on Tubridy Tonight; 3 days earlier her over-the-top birthday celebrations were splashed across the papers and they were promo-ing upcoming articles by and about her...and then suddenly, she's in a coma and dies. No-one expected that. She was 24 and, for some people, an up-and-coming star.

I do think the fawning coverage afterwards was ridiculous and a bit hypocritical considering how drug addicts are usually written about. (The anniversary articles are even worse). No-one forced her to take drugs. But it was still shocking and a terrible waste of a life.

Wheety

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Brunker sickens my hole. She has an opinion on absolutely everything. Anything that ever happened to anyone, it happened to her first. Even the Weinstien controversy, she had to weigh in on that because of course she was in a similar situation.

A no talent never was. And the rags that give her air time are worse

She said similar happened to her but there's no point going to the Guards or naming her abuser. :rolleyes:

Anyone can make (up) a claim like that if they're not wiling to take it any further than their newspaper column.

weldoninhio

languagenerd wrote: »

Like someone else said, I never registered how young she was. I was 16 in 2007, so she seemed much older to me. I wasn't (and still amn't) a fan of celebrity culture or gossip pages, but I think her death was a bit shocking because she was everywhere in the media just beforehand. Like 7 days earlier, she was being interviewed on Tubridy Tonight; 3 days earlier her over-the-top birthday celebrations were splashed across the papers and they were promo-ing upcoming articles by and about her...and then suddenly, she's in a coma and dies. No-one expected that. She was 24 and, for some people, an up-and-coming star.

I do think the fawning coverage afterwards was ridiculous and a bit hypocritical considering how drug addicts are usually written about. (The anniversary articles are even worse). No-one forced her to take drugs. But it was still shocking and a terrible waste of a life.

“Stars” generally have a talent. Standing on Grafton St/Stephens Green isn’t a talent.