• Admired and gifted Abbey actor who put family first

  Joan O'Hara (76), who died on Monday, was one of the finest actors of her generation, best known recently as Eunice Phelan in RTÉ's Fair City , which she joined in 1994, but with a near six-decade association with the Abbey Theatre and the Dublin stage. p
  

• Kieron Moore Cork-born film actor whose career spanned four decades

  Kieron Moore , who has died aged 82, was a stage, screen and television actor whose career highlights include The Green Scarf (1953) and The Day of the Triffids (1963). But major stardom eluded him after he was woefully miscast as Count Vronsky in the 1948 film version of Anna Karenina. p
  

• Columbanus War vet who became pacifist and friar

  Brother Columbanus Deegan OFM, who has died aged 82, was a second World War veteran, who in 1944 took part in the D-Day landings. p
  

• Powerful figure in Spain's transition to free press

  Jesús de Polanco: At the height of Jesús de Polanco's power in the 1980s, El País was such an influential newspaper that Felipe González, then prime minister, banned its reading before cabinet meetings lest his ministers be unduly swayed by what the newspaper had to say that day. p
  

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