Gay Byrne, TV star who 'challenged Irish society', di aged 85 | Ireland | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
• GAY BYRNE
• THE WOMEN BEHD GAY BYRNE’S SUCCS: WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY DID
• 10 INIC MOMENTS OM GAY BYRNE'S RTE REER
• GAY BYRNE FACTS FOR KIDS
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY – SON OF GUNS WORKER WHO BEME MOST FLUENTIAL BROADSTER HISTORY OF STATE
• GAY BYRNE, TV STAR WHO 'CHALLENGED IRISH SOCIETY', DI AGED 85
• GAY BYRNE: THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME FOR IRISH SOCIETY

GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

OverviewBornDiedBirth nameNicknameGayboHeightMi BFaySpoeKathleen Watks(June 25, 1964 - November 4, 2019) (his ath, 2 children)TriviaTo mark his retirement as host of the long-nng chat show The Late Late Show (1962) on 21 May 1999, Gay Byrne was prented wh a brand new.

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. When Gaybo asked Richard what lour nightie his wife wore on honeymoon, Richard said was transparent, while his new wife said she uldn’t remember; perhaps she’d not worn any at all. In the weeks after her ath, hundreds of Irish women wrote to Gay Byrne outlg the vastatg impact of their own secret pregnanci, some of which were a rult of sexual abe, ct or rape.

Gay broadst the letters to a stunned natn on his morng rad show on Rad One, markg the start of a new nversatn about teenage pregnancy which ultimately helped dispel the stigma and shame3. When she told Gay Byrne who her Sweetie really was, the natn was agog and Hghey went to hidg om the media as a rult.

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Hghey never spoke to Terry Keane Keane talks to Gay Byrne on The Late Late ronan lang8. Gaybo told Casey’s former lover: ‘If your son is half as good a man as is his father, he won’t be dog too bad.

THE WOMEN BEHD GAY BYRNE’S SUCCS: WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY DID

Stephen FryLong after his years on the Late Late Show, Gay Byrne uld still draw lns of viewers. While beg terviewed on The Meang of Life, Gay asked Fry what he would say to God if he had a chance.

Gay Byrne (1934-2019) a rad and televisn broadster was born Dubl and he joed Rad Éireann 1958. From 1973 to 1998, he prented 'The Gay Byrne Hour' on Rad 1.

Any further e of this image mt be re-negotiated separately wh RTÉ Mra ConnollyGay Byrne’s special assistant and programme executive 1968-1999Mra Connolly worked wh Gay Byrne for more than 30 years, a role enpassg rearcher, artist liaison, stage manager, dience warm-up, troublhooter. “Gay would always, verg an em, give a cred on air to the producer who rearched , mentng Pan or Mary or Colman. Money rolled towards the surgery (cludg quiz entrants sendg a £1 each; “we lled him the ln dollar kid”, and the remag money started the Gay Byrne Show Fund).

10 INIC MOMENTS OM GAY BYRNE'S RTE REER

Audrey Hepburn was another he got ill, “Gay said I don’t want to talk about .

In a highly creative environment, tempers n go, but Gay was not that sort of person.

GAY BYRNE FACTS FOR KIDS

Eventually Sbhán sat down and I shed on to the set shoutg to you, ‘Gay quick!

Photograph: RTÉ Stills Library Colette FarmerProductn assistant, later director, of the Late Late Show, between 1964 and 1999Gay Byrne’s regular ll-out on the Late Late, “Roll there Colette”, beme a tchphrase and passed to Irish idm. Colette was Colette Farmer, productn assistant, and an visible prence, through Gaybo’s reference, on the show for many years. In 1991, Farmer beme a TV director, workg on shows om Cursai to Simply Delic, and directed the Late Late Show om 1992 to 1999, cludg Byrne’s last Late “Roll there Colette”, beme “Roll there Rois”, when Rois Hark was image of Gay Byrne projected on to Cy Hall Dubl, as part of the St Patricks day Ftival 2007.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG

Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Tim Alice O’SullivanGay Byrne Show rearcher 1989-97; Late Late rearcher 1999.

I really learned all about life workg on the Gay Byrne Show. Women were maly his dience [on the rad] and was all about the dience for Gay. It opened the floodgat, the secrets people were wrg to Gay.

”She rells briefg Byrne before he terviewed Graham Norton, explag he was the new boy, that the big al growg up Bandon was not that he was gay but that he was prottant; mentng that he was nervo.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY – SON OF GUNS WORKER WHO BEME MOST FLUENTIAL BROADSTER HISTORY OF STATE

“When Graham was oppose Gay live, was my brief he was repeatg. ”Gay Byrne and Ehne Hand Ehne HandRad producer and wrer. Gay Byrne Show rearcher 1990-1994; producer of Byrne's s Sunday Jazz programme on Lyric FM 2013-2016Ehne Hand, who worked briefly on the Late Late Show, on Byrne’s rad show and on his Lyric show, don’t thk he had any particular affy for women’s issu but “he wanted as many people as possible to listen to that show.

GAY BYRNE, TV STAR WHO 'CHALLENGED IRISH SOCIETY', DI AGED 85

It was the producers and the rearchers who cid what was on the programme each morng” says: “Gay told me very recently that he learned almost all he ever knew about women’s rights and femism om June Leve, ” when she was a Late Late rearcher. We weren’t tryg to be a woman’s programme but Gay had a voice and a style that appealed, the listeners loved him, wanted to tell him all sorts of thgs, and they were mostly women.

GAY BYRNE: THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME FOR IRISH SOCIETY

Rearcher on Gay Byrne Show for a year the journalist observed 2014: "It is not to say, eher, that Byrne was ever a sat. ”This article was amend on November 11th, 2019, to clarify a reference to the “Roll there Colette” phrase ed by Gay Byrne. The ath of broadstg legend Gay Byrne was announced on Monday followg a long illns.

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