Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV’s The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in Quincy, M.E., died, a son said. He was 90.

THE times we live in are “undoubtedly the most exciting time ever in the history of this island”, President McAleese said the other day.

TONY RANDALL, the comic actor best known for playing fastidious photographer Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, has died. He was 84.

Actor Jack Lemmon, the two-time Oscar winner, has died at 76.