Miriam o callaghan bob geldof biography

In an interview with Miriam O’Callaghan on RTÉ radio yesterday, he described how he told his children that their mother had died.

It was his youngest daughter’s 10th birthday, the children were living with him and he waited until Pixie had finished opening her presents.

There were similarities with his earlier experience of his father breaking the news of his mother’s untimely death to him.

“And I said exactly what my father had said to me. I said: ‘Your mum died last night.’ And that was it.” said Geldof.

“I loved her profoundly. I didn’t understand that love is not enough.”

But the death of Peaches had a different effect on him.

“Part of me kind of half- expected Peaches To be honest with you, the way she was carrying on. There is nothing you can do about it.

“But she is the one who is with me every second of the day and she is the one who bangs into my my consciousness at any moment, especially at any down moment — I don’t mean a depressing moment, I mean where I am not doing something.”

He found it unbearable for her to be “forever 25” in his head, adding that parents were not supposed to see their children die.

Geldof said he found performing on stage “cathartic” and he was “desperate” to be on stage in the Olympia theatre next Sunday and blast the grief out of his head.

“I feel afterwards light, literally light, my head is clear; there is no ache; there is no gut sadness,” said Geldof who married his long time partner, Jeanne Marine in France in April this year.

Television series

Ireland's Greatest was a public poll by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and associated television documentary series broadcast on RTÉ One, where viewers voted to choose the greatest person in the history of Ireland. The concept was based on the BBC series Greatest Britons. The winner was John Hume.

Format

To draw up an initial shortlist of 40 names, RTÉ commissioned an opinion poll of 1, members of the public, carried out by Ipsos MRBI in late The shortlist was published on 22 March on the website, and readers could vote for their preferred person for 12 days, ending on 2 April; one vote per IP address was permitted. The top ten was announced on The Tubridy Show with Myles Dungan on 5 April The top five was established at this point, but not publicised until RTÉ's programming schedule for autumn was unveiled in August. Each of the top five was profiled in a one-hour documentary programme broadcast in autumn and presented by a public figure advocating that person's claim to the title of "greatest person". Viewers voted for the overall winner, announced on The Late Late Show on 22 October

Rankings

Top five

The ranking of the top five, and the advocates who each present a one-hour documentary about one of them, were as follows:

Top 40

The following people were shortlisted:

Criticism

The list of nominees for Ireland's Greatest was criticised by historians Diarmuid Ferriter,Tim Pat Coogan, and Maurice Manning, and Irish Times columnist Noel Whelan. They said that the list was skewed towards recent times, and that many nominees were celebrities from popular culture or sport rather th

"I remember making this same journey 4 years ago. At a point in my life where I didn't really know many people in L.A, and if I did.. they were nothing more than acquaintances.

At this moment in time, I knew that Peaches had moved from NYC to LA. As soon as I landed I called her.

We met up for what would become tradition in her stint in Los Angeles & my back and forth from New York, we ate burgers. I'm serious, this was really the first thing we'd meet up and do every time, no questions asked.

Although there was one time where before we ate, she'd convinced me to buy a pack of porno playing cards to do magic tricks for her, i obliged, I was heavily into magic at the time, what more can I say?

It's funny that this would be the memory ringing in my head right now. There are plenty of memories growing up & coming of age in London with her, my dear friends Fifi, Fred and the rest of the gang. Even when I first moved to New York 7 years ago, and she'd also just moved to NYC with her good friend Lily, who in turn became a very close friend of mine, I didn't really live anywhere at the time & I would spend every day in their apartment. But for some reason right now the memory of LA sticks out.

Obviously because i'm on my way there now, I guess, but i've really struggled to put into words how I've been feeling, i'm sure we all have. Nothing I could write, say, or any pictures I feel can really, truly convey the loss we are feeling right now…

This is someone who affected so many of us, my friends, in our lives. It's a struggle to picture a moment in time without her. Just last month while playing shows in London I remember the delight of seeing her and Fifi together, just like old times. We quipped about it, a little older, but still babies in the grand scheme of things.

But really, she had grown so much, we all watched her grow, and create a beautiful family with Thomas. My heart goes out

Bob Geldof has admitted he “half expected” his daughter Peaches’s death because of her behaviour in the years up until she died.

Peaches was found dead in her Kent home after taking what an inquest ruled to be a “life threatening” amount of heroin in Police found more than 80 syringes in different places around the house, some which had not been used.

Her death tragically echoed that of her mother Paula Yates, who died of a heroin overdose in

Geldof was speaking to Miriam O’Callaghan on RTE Radio 1to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his band the Boomtown Rats.

In the moving interview, he described the feelings he experienced after Peaches, who was married with two young children, died aged

“With Peaches it was different,” he said.

“Part of me kind of half-expected [it with] Peaches, to be honest with you, you know, the way she was carrying on, there’s nothing you can do about it.

"She's with me every second of every day. She's the girl that bounds into my consciousness at any moment, especially in any down moment when I am not doing something. She is very present.

“This thing of being forever 25, in my head, that’s unbearable, simply because of that cliché: you’re not supposed to see your children die.

“Time does not heal, it accommodates. But it is not accommodating this.

Geldof said his father broke the news of his own mother’s death matter of factly and he understood why his father did this when he had to steel himself and deliver the devastating news that Yates had died to his daughters, who were celebrating Pixie’s 10th birthday.