So sad and so tragic. My thoughts are with his family, his husband, his bandmates and his friends.
Media reaction to his death has been intrusive, in my view. Tabloid speculation is perhaps to be expected but certainly not acceptable. The travesty that was the Daily Mail article was both ridiculous (linking his death with civil partnerships and crazy drug rumours) and cruel. I’m not going to link to it and give them more ad revenue.. How people can buy such trash and inadvertantly hurt those closest to the deceased – I just don’t know.
RTE just had it as the chief story on the Nine ‘Clock news (which now starts at 9.20, so that Marty and Kathryn can have someone spin the wheel). There was no mention of Gately’s husband, Andrew. No mention at all. I shouldn’t be surprised – this is RTE. But, if he’d married a woman, she would have been mentioned. He deserved a mention and RTE’s editorial decision to omit him reflects on us all as small minded idiots.
