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• 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!
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY
• GAY BYRNE
• GAY BYRNE, WHO TACKLED TABOOS AS IRELAND’S TV HOST, DI AT 85
• GAY BYRNE ATH: A LOOK BACK ON THE REER OF IRELAND'S GREATT EVER BROADSTERFOR A TIME HE MUTED BETWEEN DUBL AND UK, WORKG FOR BOTH THE BBC AND RTÉDUBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYAENG O'HANLONGROUP HEAD OF NEWS16:12, 4 NOV 2019UPDATED16:41, 4 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!
• GAY BYRNE PICTUR: A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF LEGENDARY BROADSTER WHO HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 85THE BELOVED PRENTER HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 85DUBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYMARK O'BRIENDEPUTY EDOR17:06, 4 NOV 2019UPDATED17:07, 4 NOV 2019BOOKMARK11/5/'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!
• WHERE DID LATE RTE BROADSTER GAY BYRNE FUNERAL TAKE PLACE AND WHERE IS HE BURIED?
• GAY BYRNE, TV STAR WHO 'CHALLENGED IRISH SOCIETY', DI AGED 85
• GAY BYRNE TELLS HIS TIME WH THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS SYNGE STREET

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!

It has been two years sce the ath of RTE legend Gay Byrne.

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. Gaybo me om a most upbrgg. Gay was known for verg taboo topics cludg ntraceptn, lbians and the historic 'Bishop and the Nightie'.

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!

The ntroversy didn’t stop there, as Gay refed to shake hands wh Gerry Adams on air back 1994. 11/5/99 GAY BYRNE AT RTE IN DUBLIN. Gay relled: “In the middle of the sound check Pl McCartney me to me and said, ‘Would you like to be our agent?

” Gay also prented a long-nng rad show on RTE Rad One, The Gay Byrne Show. 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. Gaybo prented The Rose of Tralee for many years.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY

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. 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.

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Gay Byrne and Brendan O'Carroll. 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 BYRNE, WHO TACKLED TABOOS AS IRELAND’S TV HOST, DI AT 85

11/5/'99 EARLY PHOTO OF GAY BYRNE AT THE RTE STUDIO IN DUBLIN. 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.

Gay hosted the 2015 season of Ireland’s Who Wants To Be A Millnaire? As well as The Gay Byrne Mic Show and Make ‘Em Lgh, a seri about edy Ireland.

There was also Gaybo’s Gmpy Men and Class Rnn. He prented Sunday wh Gay Byrne to his loyal listenership on RTE lyric FM where he shared his love of big band and jazz.

GAY BYRNE ATH: A LOOK BACK ON THE REER OF IRELAND'S GREATT EVER BROADSTERFOR A TIME HE MUTED BETWEEN DUBL AND UK, WORKG FOR BOTH THE BBC AND RTÉDUBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYAENG O'HANLONGROUP HEAD OF NEWS16:12, 4 NOV 2019UPDATED16:41, 4 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!

The late, great Gay Byrne. Gay Byrne passed away two years ago on November 4, 2019. If we thought Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair was the last high kg of Ireland, the news of Gay Byrne’s passg would suggt otherwise.

GAY BYRNE PICTUR: A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF LEGENDARY BROADSTER WHO HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 85THE BELOVED PRENTER HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 85DUBLLIVEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYMARK O'BRIENDEPUTY EDOR17:06, 4 NOV 2019UPDATED17:07, 4 NOV 2019BOOKMARK11/5/'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!

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 Byrne wh Ronnie Delaney. 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”. SINEAD O CONNOR ON THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH GAY BYRNE.

WHERE DID LATE RTE BROADSTER GAY BYRNE FUNERAL TAKE PLACE AND WHERE IS HE BURIED?

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.

In 1961, Telefís Éireann was set up and immediately attracted the amb Gay.

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

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.

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.

He prented The Gay Byrne Hour – later the two hour Gay Byrne Show – on RTE Rad 1 each morng. GAY BYRNE PRESENTING THE LAST LATE LATE SHOW. 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.

GAY BYRNE TELLS HIS TIME WH THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS SYNGE STREET

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. 16/12/98 GAY BYRNE PICTURED WITH CHARLIE HAUGHEY.

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.

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. The followg month 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 lnched Joe Duffy’s tobgraphy ‘Jt Joe’ Harry’s Bar October and 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.