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Sat 11 Nov 2009Broadcaster and actor was noted figure in Dublin antiques business
BONNIE O’REILLY:BONNIE O’REILLY, who has died aged 90, was an accomplished actor and broadcaster and a figure well known in the Irish antiques trade through her husband John, an expert in Irish silver.
Born Eileen Mary Fagan in Dartmouth Square, Dublin, she was one of the five children of Bernard Goulding Fagan and his wife Kathleen Brady. An early indication of her later success came when, as an infant, she had won a Sunlight products Bonny Baby competition, from which originated the name Bonnie, by which she would be known for the rest of her long and interesting life.
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