Friday, February 20, 2009, 15:37 Irish author Christopher Nolan dies The death has been announced of award-winning Irish author Christopher Nolan (43). Nolan, who suffered from cerebral palsy due to being deprived of oxygen during his birth, used a pointer attached to his head to write three books, one of which won the Whitbread Prize in 1988. A statement issued on behalf of the Nolan family said he ingested some food into his airways yesterday and died in Beaumont hospital in Dublin at 2.30am today. Nolan, who was born in on September 6th, 1965, spent the early years of his...