The Commitments star Angeline Ball joined Bono, Steve Coogan and Gerry Adams at the funeral of Oscar-winning Irish musician Glen Hansard at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin on Tuesday.
Musician, activist and actor Hansard died in an early-hours motorcycle crash on the outskirts of Dublin last week.
The 56-year-old had featured in the celebrated film The Commitments and won an Oscar for best original song for Falling Slowly in 2008, which he co-wrote with Marketa Irglova for the movie Once.
Angeline Ball, who played Imelda Quirke in the 1991 Dublin-set film, led mourners at Tuesday’s service, which took place 24 hours after a wake
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