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Man dies of heart attack after doing Gangnam Style dance at Xmas party
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Eamonn Kilbride, 46, had been doing the energetic horse-riding style moves to Korean pop sensation Psy's No1 tune with his workmates but seconds later suddenly dropped to the floor.
Th tragedy occurred at an office party for the Thwaites brewery, in Blackburn, Lancashire, where Mr Kilbride worked as an IT manager.
His wife Julie was with him, celebrating her birthday, at the Whitehall Country Club in Darwen, Lancashire, when he began to complain of chest pains.
She desperately tried to revive him with CPR.
Paramedics who were on the scene five minutes later also worked on him but he was pronounced dead as he arrived at Royal Blackburn Hospital shortly after 11.30pm on Saturday.
The family, who live in Burnley, said the coroner told them that he had suffered from acute heart failure.
Mrs Kilbride, paid tribute to a 'loving husband' who she had been married to for 23 years.
She said: "I want people to know how he would help anybody whether it was a life-long friend, or someone he had just met.
"He was a great family man and he worked so hard.
"Eamonn was always the life of the party and loved dancing.
"We were having a fantastic time at the Christmas party and Eamonn had just finished dancing to Gangnam Style.
"He was up on stage and entertaining everybody.
"He said he had a bit of a pain and just collapsed.
"I tried to revive him until the ambulance got there, but by the time he got to the hospital he was gone."
Mrs Kilbride continued: "Eamonn was such an intelligent man, he inspired our children and made sure they had a good education.
"He loved me dearly and would tell people all the time.
"I know he thought the world of us."
Mr Kilbride, a keen golfer, had three children, Laurajade, 22, Jack, 21, and Conor, 18, who are all at university.
Omgz PSY IS A TERRORIST /sarcasm