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A couple devoted to human rights
Deasún Breatnach and Lucy Bhreatnach: Deasún Breatnach, writer, human rights activist, socialist republican, and Gaelgeóir, died two days after his wife Lucy, on the day of her funeral. They met and married in Spain's post-second World War Madrid, having together sons Diarmuid, Osgur, Caoilte, Oisín, Cormac and daughter Lucilita. p
Pioneer in treatment of kidney diseases
Dr Peter Morrin: Dr Peter Morrin, who has died aged 75, was professor emeritus of medicine at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A specialist in nephrology, the treatment of patients with diseases of the kidney, he was a medical ethicist, teacher and innovator. During his postgraduate training he carried out the first successful use of blood purification - dialysis - in St Louis, to save the life of a nine-year-old child. p
Divisive rabbi who urged Israeli troops to disobey orders
Avraham Shapira: Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi (1983-93), Avraham Shapira who has died, aged 94, was a champion of the settler movement, a revered adjudicator of Jewish law - and one of Israel's most divisive religious figures. p
Versatile actor was in demand for stage and screen
Tom Murphy: Tom Murphy, who died in a Dublin hospital last Saturday at the age of 39, was a remarkably versatile actor who revelled in challenging roles. There was applause in his honour at Dublin Theatre Festival productions across the city when the news was announced. p
