RTÉ broadcaster Teri Garvey has died after a long illness.
Friends at RTÉ paid tribute to their former colleague, who died at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin today.
Teri (Teresa) Garvey was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease as a teenager and breast cancer in the 1990s. Her cancer returned in 2005 and she had been undergoing treatment since then.
Garvey joined RTÉ Radio in the early 1980s where she first worked as a presentation announcer.
She then went on to present education programmes including The Open Mindeducation series, which included advice for students filling in their CAO application forms, and a series in the 1980s on women in adult education.
She also presented one of RTÉ Radio 1's first environmental programmes, The Green Times, and more recently the genealogy programme, The Family Tree. She presented Livelineduring summer 2000 and occasionally stood in for Marian Finucane.
Garvey also worked as a producer on programmes such as The Sunday Showand the Vincent Browneprogramme
Producer Peter Mooney said: "Teri bore her last illness with great courage and fortitude and spoke openly about her illness on Livelineand The Tubridy Show. Rather than bringing her down it helped her live life to the full. She was a force of nature and will be sadly missed by all our colleagues and friends."
RTÉ Radio managing director Clare Duignan said Garvey’s contribution to the station was “extensive” and that her colleagues learned of her death with “immense sadness”.
Garvey is survived by her husband, Declan d´Estelle Roe and children Dabheoc, Dallan and Yseult.
Her funeral will take place in Booterstown, Co Dublin, on Friday, followed by cremation at Mount Jerome.