Former RTÉ political and current affairs journalist Nicholas Coffey has died at the age of 78.
For more than three decades between the 1970s and mid-2000s, Mr Coffey was at the forefront of political and current affairs programming for the national broadcaster.
His career included working as a presenter and reporter in the 1970s on current affairs programme 7 Days, television discussion programme Over To You in the late 1980s and early 1990s and farming programme Landmark.
Watch: Nicholas Coffey reports on a post office strike in Limerick in 1975
Families members said today that Mr Coffey often spoke of his time covering the Troubles, including making connections with people from all sides of the political divide, during the 1970s.
Originally from Dundalk in Co Louth, Mr Coffey was the eldest of nine children, and took particular pride in his grandmother Bridget being the first female councillor in Dundalk in the 1920s.
He is survived by his wife Dr Susan O'Shaughnessy, sons David and Mark, daughter-in-law Vicky, and grandson Evan and predeceased by his parents James and Anne, brother Maurice and his nephew Maurice Junior.
