Tributes paid as former editor dies

THE death has occurred of the well-known journalist, Seamus McConville, who was editor of The Kerryman newspaper from 1974 to 1988.

Aged 79, Mr McConville battled a serious illness for many years and passed away at the weekend in the Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee.

Mr McConville did his journalistic training in The Meath Chronicle and worked for the Irish News Agency, in Dublin, before moving to Tralee to join The Kerryman in 1957.