Broadcaster Eddie McGuire is mourning the passing of his beloved mother, Bridie
Collingwood president and broadcaster Eddie McGuire is mourning the loss of his beloved mother, who passed away late Monday night. It comes just days after Triple M co-host Luke Darcy farewelled his father.
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Eddie McGuire is mourning the loss of his mother, Bridie.
The broadcaster’s beloved mum passed away overnight, the sad news coming days after his Triple M host Luke Darcy lost his father.
The pair has both worked on the show this week despite their personal grief.
“Human interaction, that connection, is a pretty big part of living, isn’t it,’’ Darcy said on air Tuesday morning.
“We’re finding that out in a big way. Ed, thinking of you and your whole family, challenging times for everyone.
“We’ve covered a bit of ground Ed, over the journey of the Hot Breakfast, from kids being born and all sorts of milestones and tragically the other side of life.
“I lost my dad on Saturday and feeling for you mate, with the passing of your mum and I know how much she meant to you and the whole family.
“And the passing of your dad a few years ago and hearing the great stories about Ed Snr as well.”
McGuire played Rod Stewart’s “Everything I Own” in honour of his mum.
He said: “Thanks to everybody for the well wishes to both Darce and I over the last couple of days.
“It’s been a tough couple of days for us Darce, but everyone is going through it and I think the message both of us were trying to get out, is (we’re) not looking for any sympathy in tough times in our personal lives, but more so just to share that we’re all going through different times and we’re all going through it together and we all support each other.”
McGuire’s Scottish father, Edward, passed away peacefully aged 94 in 2011.
He worked in a coalmine and served during World War II.
In 1958, Edward and Irish wife Bridie Brennan moved to working-class Broadmeadows in Melbourne’s northern suburbs to ensure they could give their family a better life.
They had four children, Frank, Eddie, Brigette and Evelyn.
“Lots of good fun stories. That’s what you can remember in these situations,’’ McGuire said.
In a 2018 interview with Hamish McLachlan, Eddie spoke of his close bond with his parents who did it tough.
“Mum lived on a farm in Roscommon in Ireland, in a place called Boyle,’’ he said.
“It was almost third world when you look back on it, but that was life in rural Ireland and that was life in the coal mines of Glasgow. They are very intelligent people, and they really made the most of the time they spent in school.
“They read extensively, and for them education was their passion and education for their kids was really what it was all about. As dad says, when they felt the warmth on their back in Australia, they realised what an opportunity Australia presented for them and their family.”
McGuire said they gave their children a sense of optimism and a happy childhood.
“As opposed to looking back on hard times, they saw this as the step into the promised land … they moved into a cottage in Richmond with my mother’s brother for a period of time,” he said.
“Then they moved into my other uncle’s place, and within 12 months to the day of getting on the boat in Southampton they moved into their own home in Broadmeadows.
“I had a great community of people revolving largely around sport. At age five, I fell in love with this new tribe that I became involved in, called the Collingwood Football Club.”
In a 2014 interview with Andrew Rule to mark his 50th birthday, McGuire said the first time he got to read the sports news on television, his parents took photographs of the screen at home.
After the bulletin he called his mother and said: “Thanks for teaching me to ‘read with expression’, mum.”
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