Tributes paid after death of filmmaker David Shaw-Smith

Tributes paid after death of filmmaker David Shaw-Smith

David Shaw-Smith. Picture: RIP.ie

The President has led tributes this evening following the death of acclaimed film-maker, photographer and archivist of Ireland's rural life and crafts, David Shaw-Smith, who was behind the landmark 1970s TV series Hands.

A native of Dublin who lived in Mayo, he died in a nursing home in Ballinrobe, after a long illness.

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