Glen Hansard’s Final Hours: Trad Session Precedes Dublin Motorcycle Crash
Oscar-winning singer Glen Hansard died in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash near Dublin early Wednesday after attending a trad music session at the Wren’s Nest pub; he was 56 and leaves his wife Maire Saaritsa and a son born in 2022. Police will investigate the crash and perform a post-mortem. Tributes poured in from the pub and Irish leaders; Hansard rose to fame with The Frames and for the film Once, for which he won the Oscar for Best Original Song, Falling Slowly.