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Contents:
- GAY BYRNE ON THE RAD WAS SENTIAL LISTENG
- GAY BYRNE: THE GREATT SHOWMAN
- GAY BYRNE
- GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG
- GAY BYRNE OBUARY
- GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
- GAY BYRNE: ‘I AM NO DIFFERENT TO HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY’
- ON THIS DAY: IRISH TV AND RAD PRENTER GAY BYRNE BORN DUBL
GAY BYRNE ON THE RAD WAS SENTIAL LISTENG
The Gay Byrne Show began 1973 as The Gay Byrne Hour and om the start, the only way was up for the programme, which ran for 25 years until s fal live edn on Christmas Eve 1998 * gay byrne radio show music *
The master's voice - Gay 1973. The Gay Byrne Show began 1973 as The Gay Byrne Hour and om the start, the only way was up for the programme, which ran for 25 years until s fal live edn on Christmas Eve, 1998.
GAY BYRNE: THE GREATT SHOWMAN
Gay Byrne prents the very bt tradnal jazz, Big Band and swg mixed wh great chat. * gay byrne radio show music *
Gay was subsequently 'arrted' by Gardaí Pat Shortt and Jon Kenny, known llectively as D'Unbelievabl, for g a traffic obstctn. The prenter on his last edn of The Gay Byrne Show 1998. There had been notable mpaigns relatg to civil rights the 1970s, but a certa steady-as-she-go attu prevailed until Gay's programme m on air.
Fortuoly enough, The Gay Byrne Show seemed to ci wh new patterns of thkg and s daily prence opened up space for new bat, based on the personal stori aired. The fal Gay Byrne Show, live om St Stephen's Green, Christmas Eve, 1998.
GAY BYRNE
Gay Byrne had a profound effect on the cultural and social velopment of Ireland the urse of his long tenure as Ireland’s most succsful broadster. * gay byrne radio show music *
Gay always claimed that chang attus had ls to do wh him and more to do wh what journalists said about his work as a broadster.
GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG
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Whatever about that, there was an untrammelled air to Gay on the rad, a sense that you uld tune some morngs and be surprised or shocked by what you you heard.
GAY BYRNE OBUARY
In a televisn and rad reer spanng almost 60 years, Gay Byrne had plenty of memorable moments to choose om - we've whtled them down to 10 no particular orr. * gay byrne radio show music *
Gay - arrted by D'Unbelievabl.
GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
Some standout moments clud Tie Herrema, the Dutch bsman, who had been kidnapped by the IRA 1975, speakg to Gay at length about his oral a later. They need to raise £50, 000 for the procre, and after their rad terview wh Gay and a subsequent appearance on The Late Late Show, £1m was raised. News of her ath opened the floodgat, and Gay received "too many letters, they uldn't be ignored.
"Time and aga they make the pot that beg able to wre all down is a relief, " said Gay about those stori. Gay spoke about that perd his broadstg life durg the RTÉ TV documentary, Last Orrs, which aired 2016. In more recent years, he prented an entirely different kd of show on RTÉ Lyric FM, known firstly as Sunday Serena, and later as Sunday wh Gay Byrne.
GAY BYRNE: ‘I AM NO DIFFERENT TO HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY’
Gay had certa issu wh the pronunciatn of rad prenters and ntuy announcers, the "soft T" beg a particular bugbear. It seemed somehow right that the fal chapter of Gay's rad reer should have been that light, untroubled touchdown, wh a blast of Benny Goodman puttg a sudn stop to his mischievoly provotive opns about all and sundry. Gay Byrne broadsts om the RDS 1970.
ON THIS DAY: IRISH TV AND RAD PRENTER GAY BYRNE BORN DUBL
Gay Byrne shar a joke wh Basil Bsh on the The Late Late Show 1983. You'd have to be headg towards 70 to be old enough to remember a time before Gay Byrne. It would be fair to say that when Gay Byrne began hostg The Late Late Show, Ireland wasn't jt black and whe terms of s televisn verage.
Gay Byrne on the set of The Late Late Show 1999.