The death has been announced of poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby, who is fondly remembered from his time hosting children's television shows on RTE
The broadcaster's family confirmed that he passed away in a nursing home in Clontarf, Co. Dublin .
He told the Irish Examiner: "Light years ago, overnight, I gave it all up. I stopped everything in RTE that I was doing freelance. Looking back on his much loved children's TV shows, he added: "The reason I did what I did on television, was I truly believed that life doesn't have to un-absurd. There are millions of ways that things that are regarded as boring can be absurd and great fun.
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