The acclaimed poet Paul Durcan has died at the age of 80.
His family said he would be “sadly missed by (his wife) Nessa, his daughters Sarah and Síabhra, his son Michael, his sons in law, Mark and Blaise, his daughter in law, Linden and his nine grandchildren”.
His death took place on Saturday morning.
His daughter Síabhra said her father’s passing was “very sudden” but “he had been unwell in recent years, so he had spent the last several years in a nursing home in Dublin”.
She said that funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.
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