Death of Larry Gogan - Kindness was his stock in trade

That broadcaster Larry Gogan’s death was announced on the day his RTÉ colleague Marian Finucane was buried, and two months after his peer Gay Byrne died, invites inevitable if misplaced comparisons.

Where Finucane and Byrne were challenging agents for change as well as entertainers, Gogan was, during a 50-year career, particularly comforting and companionable.