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Sat 09 Sep 2007Teacher, poet, writer and broadcaster of IrishEibhlín Ní Mhurchú:Eibhlín Ní Mhurchú, who has died aged 91, was a well-known broadcaster on Raidio na Gaeltachta and over a period of 13 years was a panel member of the popular programme Leagan Cainte. An accident forced her retirement in 2005, at the age of 88.In a previous retirement, she taught modern Irish in Trinity College Dublin. A number of years before that she had made memorable recordings of Cúirt an Mheán Oíche, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire, Jimín Mháire Thaidhg and other classic works of prose and poetry in Irish.