PAUL WARREN died in the Windfield Nursing Home, Dunboyne, Co Meath on 16 November 2011 aged 89... [More]

IVAN REID died, peacefully in hospital, on 9 January 2012... [More]

RICHARD BEAMISH died at Loughlinstown Hospital, Dublin on 13 January 2012... [More]

...He was also a fine rugby footballer winning Munster Senior Cup Medals with UCC and Cork Constitution at full back, before occupying the No 15 spot for Dolphin for the rest of his career... [More]

DOUGLAS GEORGE GREASLEY died on 9 December 2011 aged 85... [More]

A useful club cricketer, he was born in India and, having been educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, where he was not a Ist XI regular, and Cambridge, served briefly in British Army Intelligence, before entering the Foreign Office and becoming recognised as a South American expert, though he also served in Teheran, during the reign of the Shah... [More]

ROY TATTERSALL, the former Lancashire and England off spinner died on 9 December aged 89... [More]

However beyond the cricket field, he will forever have a place as a man whose treatment by the white South African government and, regrettably by the MCC - then still in control of English cricket - and his own dignified reaction to it, was to be one of the main factors in the dismantling of apartheid... [More]

...He settled in Australia - though he also maintained homes in Taunton and, after the fall of the old regime, South Africa - and became a fiercely independent, but highly respected columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, a Melbourne newspaper. His radio work as an expert summariser was also very well thought of. He wrote several interesting and well received books... [More]

...David was, perhaps, Mark's lucky umpire. The previous season he had been in charge in the MCC v Ireland match at Lord's which Ireland won by six wickets after a run chase with Mark and Alf Masood both scoring 91... [More]