Obituaries
Radio innovator helped to launch the careers of leading RTÉ figures including Mary Wilson, Tony O’Donoghue, Eileen Whelan, Ger Canning and Marty Morrissey
The Belfast-born academic had a particularly distinguished and innovative reputation in the field of early modern Irish history
Stan Bowles: Colourful character was a key figure in Queen’s Park Rangers’ greatest team in the 1970s but battled a gambling addiction for most of his life
Opposition leader endured assaults and poisonings, and was serving multiple sentences when he died
He was sceptical but not cynical, and relentlessly fair, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the constituencies
‘The nation owes him a lot,’ said president Emmanuel Macron