An Oxford broadcaster and writer has died aged 88. Mary Russell, known to some as Mary Rodger, was born in Dublin in 1936 before attending a convent school in Athlone and took an arts degree at ...

Dr Anne Merriman, who has died aged 90, was a former nun from Liverpool known as “the mother of palliative care in Africa”. She revolu­tionised end-of-life care in low-income countries by devising a ...

Declan Lynch’s celebration of John Giles and his view that the RTÉ panel were the best on the planet (‘Thank you, John Giles, for putting brains over banter’, June 29) took me back to 2002, when my ...