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06 Sept 2025
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Tributes have flooded in from across the country, as well-known gaelic games commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh has passed away at the age of 93 in the Mater hospital in Dublin.
Ó Muircheartaigh, hailed as the "voice of Gaelic Games", was born in Dún Síon just outside Dingle, Co Kerry, in 1930 and worked as a teacher before joining RTÉ as a broadcaster full-time in the mid 1980s.
Ó Muircheartaigh became RTÉ Radio 1's premier radio commentator after Míchael O'Hehir retired in 1985.
His last All-Ireland final came in 2010 when he commentated on Cork's win over Down in the football decider, and he retired from broadcasting in October of that year.
Speaking in 2010 ahead of his retirement, he said his work "enabled me to meet and get to know generations of great sportsmen and women and many of those associated with them".
"It was an honour for me to be at the source of this wonderful entertainment, to be part of a continuous and successful venture," he said.
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