Tributes to actress Gerry McLoughlin, a heroine on and off stage

Her father was Commander Frank Johnston, a highly decorated officer in the Royal Navy who was based in Malta before moving to Dublin after the Second World War and finally settling his family of seven girls in Cobh, Co Cork.
Gerry had been born in Dublin but her heart and soul were firmly in Cork where she enjoyed a long career as an actress, radio broadcaster and social diarist with the Evening Echo.