ARTHUR Mitchell was not originally from Mourne, growing up within sight of the mountains in Downpatrick.

CHRISTMAS will not be the same this year; that phone call just before lunchtime won’t be made, that excited voice, “Darling, how are you, are you happy?” is stilled and I will talk to my friend Lionel Blair never again.

ON the eve of his untimely death, Peter Jones was doing what he loved - spending precious time with family and friends over a barbecue in the glorious Fermanagh countryside.

BARON George Minne was organist and choir master at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh from 1959 until his retirement in 2005.

FRANCES Smith was a "loving, selfless, powerhouse of a woman" who dedicated herself to making life better for those around her.

TRIBUTES to Gay McIntyre record a man with an enormous talent, considered one of the greatest jazz musicians Ireland has ever produced.

MOST young boys are content to have a teddy bear beside them when tucked up in bed at night.

THE Earl of Gowrie served a short but eventual term as a junior minister in Northern Ireland, overseeing both the end of the hunger strikes and the decriminalisation of homosexuality.