Ryan Tubridy has cleared up confusion with listeners after RTE Morning Ireland reported that British writer Kazuo Ishiguro had passed away.
The station announced that the writer had died aged 67 and that an official announcement was to be released later on in the morning.
Clearing things up, Ryan said: "This is a strange one.
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"The author, who wrote one of my all time favourite books, has been reported to be dead. But the truth of the matter is, it seems that he is not dead.
"While it was reported in the last hour online and I think Morning Ireland might have mentioned it, that he was dead, we kind of double checked it.
"Sure enough, it seems the news has come from a fake Twitter account reporting to be Faber Books."
He continued: "This has happened before. Margaret Atwood was ruled out of contention for life by a fake account and she is alive and well.
"It would appear that he is very much alive. Rumours of his death had been greatly exaggerated.
"Ishiguro is not dead at all.
"Who woke up this morning and thought to get online and set up a fake Faber account and kill off Ishiguro?"
"You couldn't write it," he joked.
Some of Ishiguro's most popular novels include Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun.
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