The funeral for broadcaster and actor Seán Rocks will take place on Monday in Co Monaghan.
The funeral will be held at 11am in St Macartan's Cathedral in Monaghan Town on Monday and followed by a burial in the cathedral's cemetery.
The Co Monaghan native was on air as recently as last Friday and his sudden death has come as a shock to his loyal listeners, members of the arts community, his friends and colleagues.
Mr Rocks began presenting programmes on RTÉ Lyric FM in 2000 and became the voice of Arena on RTÉ Radio 1.
As a result of his role as anchor on ARENA, he has interviewed major artists across all artforms including the likes of Emma Thompson, Danny De Vito, Saoirse Rónan, Brendan Gleeson and Roddy Doyle.
Head of RTÉ Radio 1, Tara Campbell says Sean was a wonderful broadcaster, "Sean was a brilliant colleague, and he was a fantastic broadcaster. The breadth of his knowledge was off the scale, and yet he always made it so accessible, and he didn't talk down to people.
"He was able to change his tone and he was able to change, to flip from the serious to the more ridiculous.
"The range that he had was just incredible. What he's done for RTE and for the arts and culture and sector in general, I mean in terms of the audience that he had, a much loved audience on the Arena programme and the breadth of material that he covered from music to books to theatre, you name it he covered it."
Evelyn O'Rourke, Arts and Media Correspondent for RTE says Sean was a beacon for the arts in Ireland. "One minute he's interviewing booker award winning authors, and the next minute you see him shooting the breeze with whoever was passing. He was the most kind of on snobby person and you know, the arts sometimes people can be intimidated by that whole world."
"Sean was the complete opposite, he loved his art, and he loved introducing it to all his listeners and just making it all very easy, very accessible and he was so positive what it meant to artists and he was a real beacon really for artists, you know, even though he struggled sometimes to get the message across. He was happy to talk to, but he could talk to you about your art and talk about your movie, he would talk about a cartoon you know his range was amazing."
