Shock death of Dursey Island cable car operator Paddy Sheehan

Tributes have been paid following the sudden death of the man who operated Ireland’s only cable car for over 20 years.

Paddy Sheehan, 58, was the public face of the Dursey Island cable car since the early 1990s, and was one of its most outspoken champions.

He died suddenly at his Beara home in West Cork on Sunday, just hours after an early-morning mercy mission to take a vet to the island.