Former Going For Gold and Game For A Laugh host Henry Kelly has died aged 78. The writer and broadcaster died “peacefully” on Tuesday “after a period of ill health”, his family said. They said in a statement: “Henry will be sorely missed by his friends and family, including his partner Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry’s daughter Siobhan and her mother Marjorie.”.
Born in Dublin on April 17 1946, Kelly began his career at the broadsheet newspaper The Irish Times. He went on to become its northern editor, based in Belfast in the 1970s – where he covered the height of the Troubles. In 1976, he moved to London and joined the long-running BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme, The World Tonight, as a reporter and presenter.
