When started 1962, producer Tom McGrath tend The Late Late Show to be a light entertament, rmal programme to n as a 'filler' over the summer. Gay Byrne had other ias.
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- LEAR OF THE PACK: THE MOTORBIKG ADVENTUR OF GAY BYRNE
- IT’S THE LATE LATE GLOW WH GAY BYRNE
- A LOOK BACK ON THE LIFE OF RTE LEGEND GAY BYRNE TWO YEARS AFTER HIS ATHTHE LATE LATE SHOW HOST HAD AN EXTRAORDARY LIFBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYAMY DONOHOE14:26, 4 NOV 2021UPDATED14:40, 4 NOV 2021BOOKMARK11/5/'99 EARLY PHOTO OF GAY BYRNE AT THE RTE STUDIO IN DUBLIN. (IMAGE: COLLINS DUBLIN)NEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- THE LIFE AND TIM OF LEGENDARY LATE LATE SHOW PRENTER GAY BYRNE WHO HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 85IN HIS 85 YEARS HE SWEPT OM A MOST BEGNG TO FAMY, WHILE MANAGG TO REMA LOVED AND ADMIREDDUBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYJILLY BEATTIE18:08, 4 NOV 2019UPDATED15:39, 5 NOV 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWNEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- 48 FACTS ABOUT GAY BYRNE
- THE LIFE AND TIM OF LEGENDARY RTE BROADSTER AND LATE LATE SHOW PRENTER GAY BYRNE AS HE'S LAID TO RT"IN HIS 85 YEARS HE SWEPT OM A MOST BEGNG TO FAMY, WHILE MANAGG TO REMA LOVED AND ADMIRED"IRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARESHOWBIZBYJILLY BEATTIE16:54, 8 NOV 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWWANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 WANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- GAY BYRNE: THE VERY MOL OF A MOTORG FE GENTLEMAN
- GAY BYRNE
- IT STARTED ON THE LATE LATE SHOW: GAYBO'S MOST NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS
- IRISH BROADSTG LEGEND GAY BYRNE DI AGED 85
- GAY BYRNE BGRAPHY
- GAY BYRNE OBUARY
LEAR OF THE PACK: THE MOTORBIKG ADVENTUR OF GAY BYRNE
I was six years to a stt RTÉ TV current affairs 1994 when I got an out-of-the-blue ll om the director of televisn. I was to set up a meetg wh Gay Byrne. Gay had always produced The Late Late Show himself and wanted to lighten his load. If I had a succsful discsn wh him, I would be appoted to produce the show. * gay byrne motorcycle *
On the first anniversary of Gay Byrne's ath, his good iend John Masterson remembers his generosy of spir, his reverse-hagglg - and his love of bikgI was six years to a stt RTÉ TV current affairs 1994 when I got an out-of-the-blue ll om the director of televisn.
Gay, I was told, had not ma me aware of rrponnce relatg to rtrictns on Dermot appearg on live TV - he uld be unpredictable - and I had not followed procr. But the 'no handshake' saga that followed so annoyed Gay that he talked about wh Joe Duffy on his fal Late Late.
IT’S THE LATE LATE GLOW WH GAY BYRNE
Celebratg his 80th birthday, broadster and road safety ontman Gay Byrne is as sharp and opnated as ever, as Michael Clifford disvers * gay byrne motorcycle *
Gay was a mol public servant, but he had a healthy disrpect for some of the 'sus' of those battl grew tst. I still have a bottle of Jamon which he marked wh a Sharpie pen, "Gay Byrne owns this" took motorbike ris together now and aga.
The look on a young garda's face when Gay raised his visor at a checkpot and the guard heard the voice - was pricels. I was very touched a while back when Kathleen passed Gay's biker gear on to I left RTÉ around 2000, I anised an event to lnch some new branch of Dunn Stor.
A LOOK BACK ON THE LIFE OF RTE LEGEND GAY BYRNE TWO YEARS AFTER HIS ATHTHE LATE LATE SHOW HOST HAD AN EXTRAORDARY LIFBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYAMY DONOHOE14:26, 4 NOV 2021UPDATED14:40, 4 NOV 2021BOOKMARK11/5/'99 EARLY PHOTO OF GAY BYRNE AT THE RTE STUDIO IN DUBLIN. (IMAGE: COLLINS DUBLIN)NEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
Gay Byrne (Gabriel Mary Byrne) was born on 5 Augt, 1934 Dubl, Ireland, is a Wrer, Actor, Soundtrack. Disver Gay Byrne's Bgraphy, Age, Height,... * gay byrne motorcycle *
I asked him one more qutn, jt to let him know I had learned somethg om the year before Christmas, Gay and Kathleen hosted a marvello at-home lunch for about 20 people om his TV and rad show days.
THE LIFE AND TIM OF LEGENDARY LATE LATE SHOW PRENTER GAY BYRNE WHO HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 85IN HIS 85 YEARS HE SWEPT OM A MOST BEGNG TO FAMY, WHILE MANAGG TO REMA LOVED AND ADMIREDDUBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYJILLY BEATTIE18:08, 4 NOV 2019UPDATED15:39, 5 NOV 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWNEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 NEVER MISS A BEAT OM DUBL AND BEYOND BY SIGNG UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
What Gay Byrne chairman of the RSA had to say the Irish Inpennt after a uple of days on a motorcycle trag wh Tony... * gay byrne motorcycle *
A man on the cp of enterg his nth hasn’t been able to mter enough spare time to dulge a favoure hobby, which happens to be toggg out leathers and tearg around on a at least two generatns of Irish people, Gay Byrne has never been young.
He was “Uncle Gaybo” on the box, the man who was there when they arrived at the age of reason, and still there when they left home, retag an stctive pull on parents’ attentns. Back 1988, followg an appearance on his show by an Irish survivor of the War, Gaybo clared he was gog to wear the poppy honour of the ’re wha, Gay? The pot they ed was that when Gay Byrne was on the Late, Late he was reprentg RTÉ, and somebody reprentg RTÉ wearg the Poppy was blah, blah, blah.
48 FACTS ABOUT GAY BYRNE
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“Gay Byrne’s logic is pletely wrong, ” Shatter said at the time, gog on to arrange the stats a manner that suggted fewer ps on the beat was not the was taken aback. “In fact, I’ve been proven right by (Bob) Olsen (Chief spector of the Garda Inspectorate) and Noir (O’Sullivan terim garda missner) and all that, but that’s Shatter’s style and I don’t know where me om bee many years ago he was a regular ntributor to the Gay Byrne Show. Still mad for actn after all the TALKSHOW HOST WHO GAVE THE NATION A VOICEGAY Byrne was born 80 years ago, to an Ireland wh a fledglg rad service and no televisn statn.
As prenter of the Late Late Show, and the Gay Byrne Rad Show, he would bee the bt known face and voice Ireland. Dr Fola Doyle O’Neill, a broadst historian at the school of history, UCC, teach about Byrne’s role as the father nfsor to a, the U2 ontman, said “if you grow up Ireland, you are never gog to be as famo as Gay Byrne. Byrne also, simultaneoly, prented a pneerg rad show for 26 years — The Gay Byrne Hour, later to bee The Gay Byrne Show (GBS) the televisn talk show, which generated huge bate on emergg issu, the rad show straddled a le between light-hearted entertament and areas of Irish life that were raw, unfortable and unarticulated.
”When Byrne retired om the Gay Byrne Show, 1998, and ls than five months later parted as host of the Late Late Show, a flurry of media tert and a slew of newspaper logi followed.
THE LIFE AND TIM OF LEGENDARY RTE BROADSTER AND LATE LATE SHOW PRENTER GAY BYRNE AS HE'S LAID TO RT"IN HIS 85 YEARS HE SWEPT OM A MOST BEGNG TO FAMY, WHILE MANAGG TO REMA LOVED AND ADMIRED"IRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARESHOWBIZBYJILLY BEATTIE16:54, 8 NOV 2019BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWWANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 WANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
The Late Late Show star Gay Byrne has died aged 85 after illns. * gay byrne motorcycle *
Former Dáil Deputy, Gemma Hsey, said was ” hard to image any other broadster exercisg the kd of fluence that Gay Byrne did. Many viewers will rell the young Try stunt, Brian Trevaskis, g outcry by referrg to the Bishop of Galway as a moron; or the ‘Bishop and the Nightie’ cint, which volved a woman, a Mrs Fox, claimg she wore no nightie; and Byrne’s nscendg terview wh Annie Murphy, the lover of former Bishop Eamon uld fet an unctuo European Commissner, Padraig Flynn, expoundg on the difficulti of overseeg so many hoeholds, unaware that his host was lloly, and masterfully, allowg him to self-stct his rad show, was Byrne’s verage of the ath of 15-year-old Anne Lovett, who had given birth to a still-born child, next to the Grotto of Our Lady a field Granard, Co, Longford, which stands out most poignantly wh rad, was the disurse generated by the Gay Byrne Show, s sheer emphasis on the ordary, which ma extraordary.
At the age of 23, Gay met Kathleen Watks, whom he scribed as a “geo girl wh red hair who played the harp and sang”.
11/5/98 GAY BYRNE WITH HIS WIFE KATHLEEN WATKINS AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS, CRONA (LEFT) AND SUZY (RIGHT)AT THEIR HOME IN HOWTH IN THE 1970'S. Gay was known for verg taboo topics cludg ntraceptn, lbians and the historic 'Bishop and the Nightie'.
GAY BYRNE: THE VERY MOL OF A MOTORG FE GENTLEMAN
The ntroversy didn’t stop there, as Gay refed to shake hands wh Gerry Adams on air back 1994.
Gay relled: “In the middle of the sound check Pl McCartney me to me and said, ‘Would you like to be our agent? Over his long reer Gay prented The Rose of Tralee, The Calor Hoewife of the Year petn, as well as a range of special programm. In 1988, Gay was award an honorary doctorate letters om Try College Dubl, and the same year a poll named him most-loved public figure.
'Uncle Gaybo' prented his fal daily rad show 1998 and his fal episo of The Late Late Show the followg summer where he was prented wh a Harley-Davidson motorcycle by Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. 25/5/'99 PICTURED ON HIS NEW HARLEY DAVIDSON MACHINE, GAY BYRNE AND MAURA CONNOLLY RIDES OUT IN STYLE AT THE PHOTOCALL TO PROMOTE THE LARGEST LOTTO JACKPOT SO FAR IN 1999.
GAY BYRNE
He ntued hostg wh The Gay Byrne Mic Show, a stud-based show aired on Saturday nights as a summer filler July and Augt the pany of the RTE Concert Orchtra back 2000. In March 2006, the Irish Road Safety Authory appoted Gay as their chairman and a year later he received a Lifetime Achievement Award om Irish Film and Televisn Network.
Gay performed a one-man show ont of a sold-out dience at The Gate Theatre as part of a benef night to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society.
He prented Sunday wh Gay Byrne to his loyal listenership on RTE lyric FM where he shared his love of big band and jazz. If we thought Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair was the last high kg of Ireland, the news of Gay Byrne’s passg would suggt otherwise.
IT STARTED ON THE LATE LATE SHOW: GAYBO'S MOST NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS
For Gay was ed Irish royalty of the most accsible kd, an extraordary broadster and a man who left many as he would say, lira and excira. Gay was the uple’s sixth child, brgg joy to the fay followg the ath of their fifth child, Joseph, at jt a week old. In 1957 aged 23, Gay met Kathleen Watks, a much-rpected harpist om Saggart, Co Dubl, whom he scribed as a “geo girl wh red hair who played the harp and sang”.
IRISH BROADSTG LEGEND GAY BYRNE DI AGED 85
Havg failed to land a job wh Guns where his father worked, by the age of 24 Gay was triple-jobbg as an surance clerk, a variety pere and host of rad space soap The Pla Man on Rad Éireann. A year later Gay beme the first person to troduce the Beatl on Granada TV England, when they ma their small screen but January 1963. 23/11/99 FORMER RTE BROADCASTER GAY BYRNE WITH HIS DAUGHTER CRONA AND WIFE KATHLEEN WATKINS AFTER HE WAS PRESENTED WITH HIS VARIETY CLUB INTERNATIONAL GOLD CARD AT THE BURLINGTON HOTEL.
GAY BYRNE BGRAPHY
In 1964 was a hugely important year for Gay, losg his beloved mother Annie and marryg his sweetheart, Kathleen the Church of the Nativy of the Blsed Virg Mary, Saggart. By 1969 Gay was workg exclively for the new Irish TV service and troduced many popular programm. In 1988, Gay was award an honorary doctorate letters om Try College, Dubl, and the same year he started hostg the RTÉ People Need Telethon.
On May 21, 1999, Gay prented his last edn of The Late Late Show and was prented wh a Harley-Davidson motorcycle by Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. Gay gave Tubridy his blsg, sayg: “He has all the quali required, the light ft touch together wh a ser md.
GAY BYRNE OBUARY
Aged 66 2000, he hosted The Gay Byrne Mic Show, a stud-based show aired on Saturday nights as a summer filler July and Augt the pany of the RTÉ Concert Orchtra. Gay ed his beloved Harley-Davidson until January 2003 when he ctned the bike for The Children’s Medil & Rearch Foundatn at Our Lady’s Hospal for Sick Children Cml.