The death has taken place of the writer and veteran broadcaster, Micheal O hAodha.
Mr O hAodha was a former assistant controller of programmes for RTE Radio until his retirement 13 years ago.
Born in Killaloe, Co Clare, in July 1918, Mr O hAodha was a ground-breaking broadcaster and producer in Radio Eireann, where he started working as a programme assistant in 1945 after graduating from University College Dublin.
His production of Seumas O'Kelly's The Weaver's Grave won a Prix Italia in 1961. He was associated with some of the best-loved programmes of the 1950s: Living With Lynch, Take the Floor with Dinjo, Balladmakers' Saturday Night, The Rambling House and Meet the Clans.
His other great passion was the Abbey Theatre of which he was for many years chairman. He believed in a national theatre and in a national theatre company.
In 1960 he published a book, Plays and Places, followed by Dli na Feirme in 1965, The Abbey - Then and Now in 1969 and Theatre in Ireland in 1973. During his retirement he wrote biographies of Siobhan McKenna and Micheal Mac Liammoir.