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By Graham Fahy DUBLIN (Reuters) – Hundreds of Dubliners lined the streets singing The Pogues’ Christmas anthem “Fairytale of New York” to bid farewell to singer Shane MacGowan as his horse-drawn hearse passed through the Irish capital on Friday. MacGowan, the London-Irish punk who transformed Irish traditional music with The Pogues and penned some of the 1980s’ most haunting ballads before sinking into alcohol and drug addiction, died last week aged 65. His funeral procession was led through central Dublin on a crisp, wintery morning by a marching band and lone piper before leaving for his fun…

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