Glenroe colleagues pay tribute to Emmet Bergin who was the heart of the show

Irish actor Emmet Bergin, best known for playing Dick Moran on long-running RTÉ soap opera, Glenroe, passed away suddenly on Friday March 15.

Speaking on RTE Radio 1’s news at One, Geraldine Plunkett, who played his on-screen wife Mary, said Emmet was at the heart of Glenroe and she was terribly shocked by the news‘We have all been ringing each other and we’re all terribly shocked and sad because we were all terribly fond of him.' 'Emmet was very much of the heart of it, he was a great fun. I’ve been talking to his wife and they’re all terribly shocked by the news.'‘Sadly, dad died on Friday morning at home. It was unexpected. He had only recently been alerted to a possible heart issue and had been discharged from a short stay in hospital.'

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