The man who succeeded Stephen Grimason as BBC NI’s political editor has led the tributes to the broadcaster following his death at 67 after a long illness.
Gerard Slane was already dead, but his nine-year-old son didn’t know that. Sean sat on the stairs holding his father’s hand and begging him to wake up.
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