'It's just a loss to Ireland': Fans pay tribute to Glen Hansard at public wake

Fans lined up for hours outside a public wake for Irish musician Glen Hansard, BBC News reports, with thousands expected to pass through over the course of the day. Hansard, the Oscar-winning singer behind "Falling Slowly" and frontman of The Frames, was remembered by one mourner simply as "a loss to Ireland."

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