Tributes to an exceptional filmmaker

Tributes have been paid to filmmaker and conservationist Éamon de Buitléar, who has died aged 83.

President of NUI Galway, Jim Browne, described the wildlife expert and environmentalist as an outstanding figure of modern Ireland.

Dr Browne said: “An exceptional filmmaker, a committed environmentalist, a public intellectual, author, musician and member of Seanad Éireann — he was a man of many parts and a man whose contribution to Irish society has enriched the lives of many generations.