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Some sad news - RIP Boards.ie: Mark, aka Sabre0001

  • 17-08-2021 2:59pm
    #1
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    We have some sad news to tell you today. Our colleague Mark died very suddenly over the weekend. We are in shock at this news and are all devastated. Our thoughts and prayers are with his partner Una, his family, friends and loved ones at this time. 

    Mark joined us as a Community Support Executive in 2016 and quickly became my co-Community Manager. As a work colleague he was friendly, kind, attentive to details, a great listener and always, always reliable. He was enthusiastic about any new challenge and took them on with both hands. In recent times he had learned about CSS and was able to put that to good use tweaking the look of the site over the past few weeks and he was very proud of that work and the appreciation that it got from you guys. It was an area that he had discovered a passion for and had recently made plans to leave Boards and start a new career in that area. 

    Mark was a Boardsie long before he became a member of the staff here, joining in 2005. Some of you may have known him better as Sabre0001. He was a Limerick man, a big rugby fan and a dedicated Munster follower attending almost all of their games when he could. He naturally also spent a lot of time in the Rugby forum on various threads but of course, mainly on the Munster Team Talk threads. You may also have known him from his posts in Motorsports on F1, another of his passions. He spent a lot of time in some of the gaming forums in past years but less so recently. He even founded a site called eSports.ie years ago covering day-to-day news on competitive gaming as well as in-depth features written by himself. Mark was also an avid amateur baker which made him very popular in the office, we loved to test his baking when he was kind enough to bring some in.

    Mark will be deeply missed at Boards.ie by all of us who work and have worked with him. 

    Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam

    RIP Mark. 

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Niamh on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,658 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend and colleague 😔

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,503 ✭✭✭secman


    RIP 🙏, very sad news indeed. By all accounts yet again another good one gone far far too soon. Sincere condolences to his family and partner who must be devastated by this terrible trauma.

    Post edited by secman on


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Very sorry to read that, thinking of his friends and a family. RIP



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,177 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    So sorry to hear that. Sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues. Rest in peace Mark. Have a pint with Axel for us x



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,009 ✭✭✭Allinall


    R.I.P.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,051 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Really sad news and may I say a very touching tribute. RIP 😔

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Donkey OTae


    Very sorry to hear such awful news. Your love & care for a colleague comes across in your words. He'll always be with you



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    A sad day, condolences to his family and friends.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,458 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Very sorry to hear

    Best wishes to all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Wow that is desperately sad news. So sorry to hear that. Thoughts are with Mark’s family and all the Boards team. May he rest in peace.

    Lovely words Niamh. Mind yourselves.



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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,710 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    I'm very sorry to hear that.

    Condolences to all of those who mourn him. May he rest in peace.



  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Very sad. Condolences to his family and friends.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Terribly sorry to hear this news. RIP Mark and condolences to all who loved him, including Niamh, for whom it must be such a shock losing a beloved colleague.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭blondie007


    Very sad news. So sorry for your loss Niamh. Condolences to you & all Marks family & friends . RIP Mark.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,871 ✭✭✭This is it


    Awful news. Condolences to Mark's family and friends. Rest in Peace.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,282 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Very sad news, condolences to his family and friends.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭Wossack


    So sorry to read this

    RIP



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,310 ✭✭✭mossie


    That's terrible. Condolences to all his family and friends.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,016 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    RIP Mark

    Sorry to all Boards community and colleagues



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    RIP, Tough tribute in sure this was to write. Condolences to his family and friends.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,123 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    RIP



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,694 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    RIP very sad



  • Posts: 15,362 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm so sorry for your loss.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,972 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Awful news.

    Ar dheis de go raibh a anam dilis.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,788 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Dreadful news to hear. Condolences to family, friends and colleagues.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,532 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    RIP Mark, condolences to all his family and friends. And a beautifully written tribute Niamh, well done.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,960 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    R.I.P Mark, very sad to hear :(



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭py


    Very sorry for your loss. I knew Mark from his Sabre0001 days. Always had a smile on his face. A genuinely nice guy. RIP.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,044 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Very sorry for your loss

    RIP

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    That is truly sad news



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    RIP Mark, you will be missed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭the heathen


    Sad news. May he Rest In Peace.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,843 ✭✭✭jluv


    RIP Mark. Condolences to you all and his family and friends..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    Terrible sad news, thoughts and condolences to all who know him.



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Sorry to hear the news. Rest in peace.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,826 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    That is such sad news. You must be so shocked. Condolences to all. 😔



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,358 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Although I was only barely aware of Mark, this is very sad news. I found him on RIP - Mark O'Beirne. When I put in Mark and Limerick for the 17th August, I found his entry.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    My sympathies to Mark’s family, friends and colleagues.

    Rest in eternal peace 😞



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sad news. Thoughts with his family, friends and colleagues. Rest In Peace.



  • Administrators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,907 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    I'm so sorry Niamh. Condolences to Mark's family, friends and all his Boards.ie colleagues.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    Condolences to Mark's family, Boards HQ and all that knew him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,038 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Condolences to his family and friends, and to his work family as well. RIP.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hannibal_Smith


    Very sad news. Sincere condolences to Mark's family, friends and colleagues. Thinking of you all at this terribly sad time.

    RIP Mark



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    RIP Mark.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,864 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Very sad news, terrible news.

    Condolences to his family and friends and colleagues.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    So sorry to hear this. What a horrible time. Thoughts go to his family and friends.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,282 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Thats awful news Mark was a great help on the site he will be missed



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭beachhead


    Condolences to Mark's family and all the crew at Boards.ie



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Bigmac1euro


    RIP Mark. Condolences to all the boards crew during this sad time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭Connrang


    Mark, rest in peace.

    To his family and colleagues,  condolences



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