Sudden death of popular Magee lecturer Dr Paul Devlin
Tributes are being paid to a popular lecturer at the Derry campus of the University of Ulster who has died.
Dr Paul Devlin passed away suddenly in Kinsale in Co Cork
Among those who have paid tribute to the father-of-three has been well-known Derry writer Dave Duggan who described him as an “ace man.”
Dr Devlin was the first Ph.D. in Drama from the University of Ulster's School of Creative Arts and had been Lecturer in Drama at the University of Ulster since February 2007.
His remains will leave his home at West End Park in Derry at 8.00am tomorrow morning for 10.00am Funeral Mass in Holy Trinity Church, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. He will be laid to rest immediately afterwards in Forthlll Cemetery in Cookstown.
Dr Devlin is survived by his wife Kate and children Edie, Poppy and Maille, and his father Kevin.