The death of Bryan Whelan, whose body was discovered last Saturday trapped in a cage in the River Shannon, was the second tragedy to strike his family, it has emerged

RTÉ is to broadcast a special tribute to Bill O’Herlihy on The Late Late Show tomorrow night.

Bill O’Herlihy will be laid to rest this Friday, while RTÉ confirmed that the show he was working on at the time of his sudden death was a sports programme that will not now be completed.

Tributes have poured in for Bill O’Herlihy, one of the giants of Irish broadcasting, who passed away yesterday morning.

Last year, when I met Bill O’Herlihy for the first and only time just days before his last broadcast anchoring the RTÉ football panel, he made one of those characteristic self-depreciating comments as we were finishing up.

He gave the impression of having the same knowledge as an armchair fan but that is what made him such a great broadcaster, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

Bill O’Herlihy spoke humbly about the role of luck, fate and talented colleagues in his career — in possibly his last time on the airwaves less than a fortnight ago.

Looking around Bill O’Herlihy’s office raised an immediate question.

IT is possible to argue that, with the possible exception of Michael O’Hehir, Bill O’Herlihy was the broadcaster most universally welcome in Irish homes over the last 50 years.

Tributes have been pouring in for RTÉ sports broadcaster Bill O’ Herlihy who passed away today at the age of 76; Averil Power has resigned from Fianna Fáil and the Westboro Baptist Church can’t work out the Irish tricolour. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

In one of his last interviews as RTÉ's soccer anchor, Bill O' Herlihy spoke to Kieran Shannon about Charlton, Dunphy, Giles and retirement.

It might not be as extreme as the Ice Bucket Challenge, or as narcissistic as the No Make-up Selfie, but a new craze is raising thousands for charity.

HELLO, good evening and welcome.

Enda Kenny’s former senior strategist looks set to haunt the Taoiseach from cyberspace.

There will be a lot of fanfare over the coming weeks to mark Gay Byrne’s 80th birthday, which falls in early August, as there has just been plaudits for Bill O’Herlihy, as he stepped away from the anchor seat of RTÉ’s sports department, having steered us through 10 World Cups and 10 Olympic Games on TV. And rightly so.

As Bill O’Herlihy retires, we look back at some of his finest moments from the career of an icon.

RTÉ’s controversial pundit Eamon Dunphy was forced to apologise to viewers after swearing on live TV last night.

As Bill O’Herhily prepares to take his final bow, Eamon Dunphy reflects on the past and explains the secret to the panel’s success

Eamon Dunphy has called on Roy Keane to "quash" speculation about his future and commit fully to his role as Martin O’Neill’s number two.

It was a post-match analysis in more ways than one when RTÉ’s distinguished soccer panel gave a very special present to newlyweds Julie-Ann Coleman and David Jones as they celebrated in the Dunboyne Castle Hotel, Co Meath.

The outgoing artistic director of Cork’s Everyman Palace picked his top three choices for this season as he launched the theatre’s Spring programme.

The death has occurred of Josephine O’Herlihy, a popular and well-respected Cork solicitor, who had offices in South Bank, Crosses Green.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil should bury their differences and pool their resources in a grand coalition which would benefit the people of Ireland, veteran broadcaster Bill O’Herlihy has said.

“Does it make any sense to have the major political parties tussling for power where, for so long, the width of a sheet of tissue paper scarcely separated their policies?” Bill O’Herlihy asked in his oration yesterday at Béal na mBláth.

Ireland’s political system should be overhauled to reflect the true ideals of revolutionary leader Michael Collins, it has been claimed.

THE tobacco industry’s unprecedented visit to Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his ministers Michael Noonan and Alan Shatter would appear to have been a failure.

Bill O’Herlihy believes he is the luckiest man in the world.

Eamon Dunphy believes Giovanni Trapattoni will select younger players for the upcoming friendly against Greece, but that the Republic of Ireland manager will revert to established senior players for the vital qualifier against Sweden next March because the Italian “is not going to change” his conservative philosophy.

Some Sunday in early Jul 2014, the World Cup will be held aloft, but it won’t be the only seismic event in sport that day — Bill O’Herlihy will be vacating his anchorman’s chair for good.

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Olympian Chloe Magee has said there was no need for RTÉ sports anchor Bill O’Herlihy to bring religion into her sport.

You think you know Bill O’Herlihy. He’s like that inoffensive ornament on the living room mantel that blends in against a beige wall. The background noise you’ve got used to.

Eamon Dunphy and George Hook kissing each other.

I’m writing this as my old friend Bill O’Herlihy reads a laundry list of names to Eamon, John and, yes even, Ronnie Whelan.

History could have been so different. Rather than anchoring RTÉ’s soccer coverage during the glory days of Italia ’90, Bill O’Herlihy could have been preparing for a run at the presidency.

Though a staunch Fine Gael supporter, Bill O’Herlihy voted for Jack Lynch, was asked to run for office by the Fianna Fáil leader, and believes Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil should merge, writes political editor Paul O’Brien

“RTÉ was in total chaos at the time. It opened long before it should have.”

Yes, says Larry Ryan. No, says Liam Mackey

BY half-time in Andorra la Vella we looked like the Irishmen who went up a mountain but came down a hill.

THEY have neither the high profile nor the heavy-hitting personnel of the big guns, but CIT maintained their interest in the Fitzgibbon Cup with a narrow quarter-final win at their impressive Bishopstown complex yesterday.

LET’s think back a moment, before we look forward. You’ve just had your dinner. A warm mug of milky tea is perched on the arm of the sofa as you sit back in short trousers on another yawning summer evening.

A FEAST of running rugby in the Aviva Stadium – unfortunately for anyone hoping for a competitive opening encounter in the O2 Challenge, all of it came from one side.