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In her column yesterday, Moir wrote under the
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headline "There was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death"
that the circumstances "are more than a little sleazy" and told how he
and his civil partner, Andrew Cowles, had taken a Bulgarian man to
their flat in Majorca after an evening clubbing. Gately reportedly
smoked cannabis on the night he died, Moir added.
Bertie
Ahern, Ireland's former taoiseach,, joined in the criticism of the
Mail's coveragetoday. Speaking before signing a book of condolence on a
lectern in the middle of Seville Place directly facing the church, the
ex-prime minister said he could not fathom why the paper's columnist
had launched what thousands have condemned as a homophobic attack on
the
freshwater pearl bracelet singer's memory.
"You could see it last Sunday and Monday when I was in London and some
of the papers were waiting to write some sensational piece about him.
The guy [Gately] was a good guy who died of natural causes and this is
his funeral so I can never understand why people just don't leave
things simple," Ahern said.
Others outside the church were
even more forthright in their condemnation of the Daily Mail column.
Alan Hunter, who runs the Irish music radio station ShamrockFM.com,
urged as many people as possible to write to the paper's editor and
demand an apology for Gately's family.
"We are all very very insulted by that coverage even if
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people are entitled to their own opinion. There is a time and a place
for everything but it was the wrong time entirely to be launching an
attack like that. I certainly hope the Irish people force that
newspaper's editor to apologise for the great hurt caused by that
article. It's the least they can do," Hunter said.