The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has passed away at the age of 65.
The sad news comes just one week after the musician was released from hospital after a stay in intensive care due to a brain condition, ahead of his upcoming birthday on Christmas Day.
Shane had suffered from several health issues in recent years and had been receiving care in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin for an infection earlier this month.
On Thursday, November 23, Shane's wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, shared the news that Shane was out of hospital after being diagnosed with viral encephalitis last year.
Shane had been receiving treatment since last December, with his wife often sharing updates about him on social media.
Last week, upon his release from hospital, Victoria, 57, took to Twitter to share her gratitude: "Shane got out of the hospital! We are deeply and eternally grateful to all of the doctors and nurses and staff at St Vincent's it's the best! And special thanks to Tom Creagh and Brian Corscadden for your help."
Victoria recently shared her fears in a recent Instagram post, saying she was "facing terrifying fears of loss".
She wrote: "Love is the most beautiful and powerful thing that we can experience as humans but love can also feel painful especially if you are afraid of losing a person or anything else that you love. Sometimes when you love very deeply you will find yourself facing terrifying fears of loss that can feel so big and devastating that you don't know how you can survive them and you can't imagine life without this person that you love."
Victoria, who tied the knot with the singer in 2018, has also previously spoken about activities the couple used to enjoy which had become no longer easy to accomplish.
She said in an interview: "We take it day by day and do whatever we can to stay positive. It means life has changed and it's curtailed in lots of ways. Things you might have taken for granted – like going on holidays or even going to a movie or going anywhere – that becomes very difficult."
She added: "It's a two-way thing. I feel lucky to have found him. He has always inspired me. He is such a beautiful, bright, funny, intelligent, interesting person. I feel like I'm never going to get bored with him. There is always something that surprises me about Shane. We take it day by day and do whatever we can to stay positive."
Over the years, Shane suffered physically from years of binge drinking.
Shane began drinking at age five, when his family gave him Guinness to help him sleep, and his father frequently took him to the local pub while he drank with his friends.
In 2016, Victoria revealed to the press that Shane was sober "for the first time in years."
She explained that the origins of Shane's drinking problem stemmed from several years of "singing in bars and clubs and other venues where people go to drink and have fun" and that "his whole career has revolved around it and, indeed, been both enhanced and simultaneously inhibited by it".
She said that his drinking was not a problem for many years but "went from being just a normal part of life" to becoming very unhealthy, a circumstance made much worse due to the introduction of hard drugs such as heroin.
She explained that a serious bout with pneumonia, compounded by an excruciatingly painful hip injury which required a long stay in the hospital, was ultimately responsible for his sobriety. The lengthy hospital stay required a total detox, and Shane's sobriety continued after he got home.
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