BBC Radio Scotland presenter Nick Sheridan has died aged 32, the broadcaster has introduced.
Confirming his loss of life, head of stories and present affairs at BBC Scotland Gary Smith paid tribute to him, calling him “fantastic” and “massively gifted”.
He wrote on X: “We’re devastated to listen to information our colleague and pal, Nick Sheridan, has died.
“Nick has been an exquisite colleague. He was a massively gifted journalist, presenter and creator – and a type of uncommon individuals who mild up the lives of everybody round them.
“Humorous, intelligent, sort. A beautiful man.
“Our hearts exit to his mother and father, to his associate and to all his household and pals.”
First Minister Humza Yousaf paid tribute to Sheridan as he began his weekly query session within the Scottish Parliament chamber, describing him as an “extraordinarily gifted journalist and creator”.
Mr Yousaf mentioned: “He will likely be tremendously missed. Many people on this chamber may have been questioned by Nick – fairly robustly little question – whether or not it was on BBC Drivetime or on most of the different programmes that he offered.
“My ideas are along with his household, his many pals and certainly his colleagues. It should undoubtedly be a really unhappy time for them.”
Responding to information of his loss of life, podcaster and presenter Janice Forsyth wrote on X: “Oh expensive god, what terrible information. Nick was an absolute diamond. It’ll take a very long time for this to sink in. Sending all my like to Nick’s associate, family and friends.”
Midlands correspondent for RTE Sinead Hussey wrote: “Desperately unhappy information. Nick stood out along with his expertise and talents. Above all although, he was a very pretty one who all the time had a smile on his face. Considering of his household, pals and colleagues.”
Whereas RTE information and sports activities presenter Paul O’Flynn additionally paid tribute, writing: “I am so shocked and saddened to see this. Nick was a supremely gifted pupil in DCU and later an important colleague in RTE. Such a gifted broadcaster and a very pretty man.”
First becoming a member of the BBC as a digicam journalist in 2018, Sheridan then turned a shopper affairs correspondent for BBC Scotland in 2020.
The next yr he progressed to information presenter, and likewise lectured in journalism on the College Of West Scotland.
He’d beforehand labored as a broadcast journalist at STV, in addition to at RTE Information as a presenter, reporter and international desk reporter.
Sheridan’s first roles after leaving Dublin College, the place he studied journalism, had been as a newsreader at Newstalk and a researcher at Late Lunch Reside.
He’d additionally written three books, one on journalism and two kids’s books.
Sheridan’s reason behind loss of life has not been introduced.
Born in Wexford in Eire, Sheridan had moved to Glasgow in 2017, and had been working in broadcast journalism for over ten years.
