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Today marks two years sce legendary RTE broadster Gay Byrne's passg. Here's everythg you need to know about Gay Byrne. 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.

Gay is survived by six grandchildren that keep his spir alive.

GAY BYRNE WAS A LOYAL, IF QUTNG CATHOLIC ALL HIS LIFE

Career 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.

Gay was at the helm of the Late Late Show for 37 years and was succeed by Pat Kenny and then Ryan Tubridy.

In 1961, Telefís Éireann was set up and immediately attracted the amb Gay. 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. Gay went on to have a lengthly TV and rad reer and was a hoehold name.

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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 married Kathleen 1964.

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”. Kathleen has said that she se her late hband Gay Byrne’s personaly her six grandchildren. Gay went on to have two dghters wh Kathleen and six grandchildren.

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Legacy Gay was one of the bt known fac Irish broadstg and was well loved by all. In 1988, Gay was award an honorary doctorate letters om Try College, Dubl. 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, later award the Outstandg Achievement PPI Rad Award 2009.

To mark RTÉ’s 50th anniversary the Gay Byrne postage stamp was placed circulatn, part of a set of three that also featured Anne Doyle and Emma O’Drisll. One of the great ironi about Gay Byrne is that, while so many believe he was the wedge which opened a narrow, sular Ireland to the wir world, he himself remaed the boy shaped by a very tradnal Irish Catholic was a creatn of those two immovable forc which shaped so many succsful Irish men the mid- to late-20th century – mother and Carroll, his mother, was om Bray, Co Wicklow, and married his father Edward 1917 while the latter was home on leave om fightg the Brish army durg the first World War. Gay was the youngt of six, one of whom died relled his mother as “tough on all of .

Gay Byrne:A Life Pictur. 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.

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