Irish musician and actor Glen Hansard, who won the Best Original Song Oscar in 2008 for the hit indie film Once, has died in a motorcycle crash aged 56.
Irish police said that a man in his fifties died in the early hours of Wednesday morning (29 July) after a single-vehicle motorcycle collision in the west of Dublin. Emergency services were alerted shortly before 4.30am and the man was pronounced dead a short time after being treated at the scene. Police are appealing for witnesses.
