Obituaries

A soul singer with an exception voice, she really hated the period when record companies tried to make her a disco diva

Former Fine Gael TD lived by the mantra that all politics were local

A musician’s musician, fiddler understood the emotional, spiritual and lonely quality, the darkness as well as the light, in Irish traditional music

An Appreciation

Other teenagers hung posters of Bowie and the Stones on their bedroom walls. She stuck up photos of politicians and went on to become the first female press director for Fianna Fáil

He wrote both in Irish and English and delighted in submitting articles under pen names. Years later he admitted he could not remember some of them