Tributes paid to former Irish Times editor Gageby

FORMER Irish Times editor Douglas Gageby, who has died, has been hailed as “a colossus of journalism”. He was 85.

His body was cremated on Saturday following a private family service in Mount Jerome, Dublin. He died on Thursday evening after two years of ill-health.

Born in Dublin, the only son of an Ulster Protestant, the family moved to Belfast when he was five. Having studied modern languages at Trinity College, Mr Gageby served in the Irish Army as a military intelligence office during World War II.