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Fri 12 Dec 2009Singer Liam Clancy dies aged 74
Liam Clancy, the man Bob Dylan described as the "greatest ballad singer" he had ever heard has died. He was 74.
Mr Clancy died at Bon Secours Hospital in Cork after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis - scarring of the lungs. His brother Bobby died of the same disease in 2002.
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