1922). Máirín Lynch, widow of former Taoiseach Jack Lynch (born 1916). 24 June – Douglas Gageby, journalist and editor of The Irish Times (born 1918). 23 July – Joe Cahill, former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1920). 8 October – Fergus Bourke, photographer (born 1934). 16 November – Margaret Hassan, aid worker in Iraq, kidnapped and murdered by Iraqi insurgents (born 1945). 20 November – Ian Lewis, cricketer (born 1935). 8 December – Digby McLaren, geologist and palaeontologist in Canada (born 1919). 26 December – Frank Pantridge, physician, cardiologist and inventor of the portable defibrillator (born 1916). Full date unknown George Harrison, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and alleged gun-runner (born 1915). See also 2004 in Irish television References