Tributes pour in after award-winning BBC cameraman who captured enduring images of Troubles dies
An award-winning BBC cameraman who captured one of the enduring images of the Troubles, has died at the age of 91.
Cyril Cave, born in Holywood in Co Down, began his career as a newspaper photographer with the Lurgan Mail before moving to the Belfast Telegraph.
He started work as a news cameraman with BBC Northern Ireland in the 1960s.
He died in Castlewellan in County Down on Tuesday,
Mr Cave was highly respected during the Troubles and won multiple Royal Television Society awards for his work.
In Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in January 1972, Mr Cave filmed a priest waving a blood-stained handkerchief as a dying man was carried along a street.
The injured man was Jackie Duddy, one of 13 civilians killed when soldiers opened fire on a civil rights march.
The priest was Father Edward Daly, who became the Bishop of Derry.
Sky Senior Ireland Correspondent David Blevins said: “Cyril Cave: legendary cameraman, gifted storyteller and the finest of company. Condolences to his family”.
UTV presenter Paul Clark said: “When I was a younger person, I worked with Cyril Cave - a legend...”.
BBC NI’s Political Editor Mark Davenport added: “It was a privilege, as a rookie reporter, to share a crew car with the hugely experienced Cyril Cave with his eye for a telling shot & dry sense of humour”.