Death takes place of trad musician and writer Tomás Ó Canainn

The respected traditional musician, poet, and writer Tomás Ó Canainn has died, aged 82.

The uileann piper was probably best known as a member of Na Filí, along with fiddler Matt Cranitch and whistle player Tom Barry, who brought Irish traditional music to an international audience in the 1970s.

The Derry native was an engineering lecturer and in the early 1970s moved to work at University College Cork, where he also studied for a music degree with Seán Ó Riada as one of his teachers.