Tributes have been paid to the actor and director Dónall Farmer, who has died aged 81. A UCC graduate, Mr Farmer spent time in Britain before returning to his native Cork to teach at the Presentation Brothers, where he had gone to school. This lead to the founding of Compántas Chorcaighe, which became a constituent part of the Everyman Theatre in the mid-1960s. Mr Farmer played Keever in RTÉ’s landmark adaptation of James Plunkett’s 1913 lockout novel ‘Strumpet City’, and appeared in shows such as Remington Steele and Ballykissangel. Mario Rosenstock, who played vet David Hanlon in Glenroe, tweeted that Mr Farmer was “a fine actor and terribly nice man”.

Source: Evening echo December 06, 2018 18:56 UTC