THE funeral of veteran broadcaster Charlie Bird has taken place in Dublin immediately.
The 74-year-old died on Monday, March 11 following a protracted battle with motor neurone illness (MND).
Mourners gathered to pay their respects to the previous journalist, who spent 4 many years reporting from throughout the globe for Ireland’s nationwide broadcaster RTÉ earlier than turning his consideration to campaigning in later life.
Former President Mary Robinson was among the many mourners who attended his funeral on the Mansion House in Dublin immediately at 12noon.
Fellow journalists have been additionally in attendance, alongside along with his spouse Claire, daughters Orla and Neasa and prolonged household.
In a press release this week, his household mentioned he had “died peacefully in the wonderful care of Wicklow Hospice with his family at his side”.
Charlie Bird’s spouse Claire Mould arriving forward of the serviceFollowing his loss of life President Michael D Higgins remembered Bird as an “exceptionally talented broadcaster”.
“Charlie was a truly remarkable man driven by a deep sense of social justice in the most positive sense,” he mentioned.
“As an intuitive journalist, Charlie identified with causes from below,” he defined.
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson attended the service“His devoted pursuit of the reality, and immense potential to build heat relationships that might final via life with all these with whom he got here involved, made him one of many excellent journalists of his era,” he added.
