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Tributes have poured in for Sonny Knowles, the Irish entertainer who passed away on Thursday

Published 21:23 15 Nov 2018 GMT

Rudi Kinsella
Tributes have poured in for Sonny Knowles, the Irish entertainer who passed away on Thursday

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Joe Duffy has described him as "one of nature's gentlemen".

Sonny Knowles, the Dublin-born singer who entertained crowds during Ireland's showband era died at the age of 86 on Thursday 15 November. He passed away peacefully in his home. Speaking on RTE's Liveline with Joe Duffy, music promoter Pat Egan said that Knowles was a "modest man in many ways". Fellow performer Sil Fox said that today is a "sad day for all of us who worked with him, and his fans who went to see him". Duffy himself took to Twitter to pay his condolences to Knowles, describing him as "one of nature's gentlemen". https://twitter.com/joeliveline/status/1063085991047675905 Plenty of other fans took to Twitter to pay their respect to the entertainer, with one fan going as far as to describe him as "one of Ireland's greatest entertainers": https://twitter.com/gersweeney67/status/1063066340062322689 https://twitter.com/RobertBohan/status/1063092619507654657 https://twitter.com/frbryanshortall/status/1063178901768290304 https://twitter.com/carrtogram/status/1063069065860784128

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Tributes have poured in for Sonny Knowles, the Irish entertainer who passed away on Thursday