Death announced of influential Cork impresario Barra Ó Tuama

'I used to go out and search across the world for new rising talent and bring it back so that Irish audiences could hear these fantastic voices before they became household names,' he told the Irish Examiner in 2011

The late Barra Ó Tuama, pictured in 2003. File Picture: John Sheehan Photography / Irish Examiner Archive

Barra Ó Tuama, one of Cork's leading impresarios, has passed away, his family have confirmed.

Mr Ó Tuama died peacefully at St Luke's Home on Wednesday.