The death has taken place of college lecturer and journalist Eddie Holt, a former television critic and columnist for The Irish Times. Mr Holt (60) wrote for the newspaper from December 1994 until the mid-2000s.
He was earlier television critic for the Irish Independent, between 1988 and 1994.
Mr Holt, originally from Drogheda, was a lecturer in the school of communications in Dublin City University, where he taught ethics, writing and literary journalism. He died following a long struggle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).
The Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists, Séamus Dooley, paid tribute to his former colleague.
"I knew him very well from our time working together on the subs desk in the Irish Independent," he said. "He had wonderful insight and encyclopaedic knowledge, coupled with a very sharp sense of humour."
His funeral Mass will be on Friday at 10am at St Patrick’s Church, Donabate, north Dublin. Mr Holt is survived by his widow, Dympna, and son, Joe.