Remembering theatre giant Sam McCready, who died almost a year ago… and how he faced his final days

The widow of the acclaimed Belfast-born actor, director, writer and artist Sam McCready has talked movingly of how her husband of almost 57 years was "an object lesson in how to die". Sam died at the age of 82 in his adopted home of Baltimore in America in February last year and Joan McCready recalled: "There never was a happier man. He accepted it and he said his goodbyes."