Far from love stephen gately biography

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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2009-10/15/content_8800192.htm. The Belfast Telegraph.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/370073.stm. Offensiveness is not within the remit of the PCC – we deal with accuracy and intrusion."^[119] However, the column featured only in the British version of the newspaper, being removed from the Irish Mail and replaced instead by positive tributes to the singer's life.^[110] According to Sky News, the Gatelys "are aware of the article, they have not read it, they will not read it, but they know what is contained in it and they know the sentiment" and "are just very, very disappointed".^[117]

In Ireland itself, former TaoiseachBertie Ahern said, "Some of the [British] papers were waiting to write some sensational piece about him [...] I can never understand why people just don't leave things simple" and one radio station owner, who called on people to write to the Mail to express their disagreement, commented, "We are all very very insulted by that coverage.

[...] Girls cried outside the church on Saturday and were held up by friends. "Louis Walsh 'would have saved Rachel'". He was among the first of many prominent Irish men and women, largely in the spheres of entertainment, the arts, journalism, politics and sport, who came out publicly as gay, thus contributing to the gradual normalisation of homosexuality in Irish life, and helping to effect the revolution in public opinion that resulted in passage by referendum on 22 May 2015 of the marriage equality amendment to the constitution, extending civil-marriage rights to same-sex couples

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Biography courtesy of the Royal Irish Academy 

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