The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
Ben Dunne
Taoiseach could always have attended himself in a private capacity but sending his official representative gave his Government’s seal of approval to Dunne
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Dunne’s kidnapping at the hands of the IRA in the early 1980s was a ‘hugely traumatic source of many of his personal problems in the years that followed’, funeral told
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The former managing director of Quinnsworth says he hopes Ben Dunne will be remembered as ‘a tremendous retailer’
Radioactive fallout from two separate detonations in American hotels drifted over the Atlantic and settled on Ireland. This was history as chaos theory
He survived a kidnapping drama that might have come to define the life of another person, but was little more than a footnote in his
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Fallout from Florida incident lasted for two decades and reached the top of Irish politics
Conor Pope: ‘Despite it all he was always a salesman. It was what he was born to do. And he was absolutely ruthless’
Dunne’s cocaine-fuelled episode set off a chain of events which were to shock the Irish public through work of two tribunals of inquiry and the uncovering of offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands
Former director of retail giant Dunnes Stores died on trip to Dubai
Retired garda Willie McGee’s book details investigations of major scams from the past
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