Jonathan Irwin, who has died at the age of 82, was a gregarious Eton-educated optimist who became a pivotal figure in Irish horseracing and bloodstock and later, along with his second wife Mary Ann O’Brien, became even better known as the founder of the respite charity, the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation.
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