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Contents:

• GAY BYRNE: I WANT TO BROADST ON RTE AGA BUT MY FAY SAY NO
• GAY BYRNE AD: JOE DUFFY AND RYAN TUBRIDY LEAD TRIBUT TO MUCH-LOVED RTE PRENTER AFTER HIS ATH AT 85
• GAY BYRNE, TV STAR WHO 'CHALLENGED IRISH SOCIETY', DI AGED 85
• GAY BYRNE, WHO TACKLED TABOOS AS IRELAND’S TV HOST, DI AT 85
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY

GAY BYRNE: I WANT TO BROADST ON RTE AGA BUT MY FAY SAY NO

Gay Byrne prents the very bt tradnal jazz, Big Band and swg mixed wh great chat. Image Name: Gay Byrne.

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42pm Jo Gay every Sunday afternoon for a great origal mix of chat pl jazz om the 30’s 40’s and 50’s. Jo Gay every Sunday afternoon for a great origal mix of chat pl jazz om the 30’s 40’s and 50’s.

GAY BYRNE AD: JOE DUFFY AND RYAN TUBRIDY LEAD TRIBUT TO MUCH-LOVED RTE PRENTER AFTER HIS ATH AT 85

Kathleen Watks and dghters are keepg a close eye on Gay Byrne to make sure he don't over do . Picture: David ConachyGay Byrne has revealed RTE want him back on air to prent his Sunday show on Lyric FM but his fay has imposed a well-meang veto. In fairns, affects Kathleen as well, bee was her Sunday too, ” he Sunday Wh Gay Byrne afternoon show featured the bt of tradnal jazz, big band and swg mic mixed wh chat.

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

It is a follow-up to her 2016 btseller, Pig of Barry Egan’s full terview wh Gay Byrne and Kathleen Watks Livg magaze today’s Sunday Inpennt.

GAY BYRNE, WHO TACKLED TABOOS AS IRELAND’S TV HOST, DI AT 85

The life and tim of legendary RTE broadster and Late Late Show prenter Gay ByrneIf we thought Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair was the last high kg of Ireland, the news of Gay Byrne’s passg would suggt 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 his 85 years he swept om a most begng to famy, while managg to rema loved and on Augt 5, 1934, Gabriel Mary Byrne was the youngt-born of six children for Edward and Annie Byrne and grew up father, enlisted as a profsnal trooper wh the Brish Army’s 19th, the Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal Hsars valry regiment, went to the Wtern Front where he took part heavy fightg cludg the Battle of the 1917, when briefly home on leave om the war Edward married Annie Carol, and two years later was discharged om the Brish Army, and later the former Irish Volunteer took part the Irish War of was the uple’s sixth child, brgg joy to the fay followg the ath of their fifth child, Joseph, at jt a week old.

His siblgs were Edward, Al, Ernt and Byrne fay lived at 17 Rialto Street, Rialto, Dubl, before they moved to 124 South Circular Road the cy, later renumbered attend the now closed Rialto Natnal School and a number of other schools for short perds until his unfettable tn unr the Christian Brothers at Synge Street CBS, a school he said he attend “wh fear and tremblg”, scribg the Brothers as “btal” love of entertament and showbiz started early and he relled buyg a jazz rerd aged 14 wh two class mat, a risky affair 1948 nsirg Rad Éireann’s refal to play bee of s “licent” 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”. 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 recent years did he reveal he had turned down an offer to manage the relled: “In the middle of the sound check Pl McCartney me to me and said, ‘Would you like to be our agent?

”He told Pl that he was too by workg four days a week Manchter and need to be back Dubl every weekend for the Late Late 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, uple went on to adopt two dghters, Crona and Suzy. (Image: Colls)By 1969 Gay was workg exclively for the new Irish TV service and troduced many popular prented Let’s Dance England for Granada Televisn wh Marn Ryan, filmg at the Ballroom at Belle Vue, he pèred the fals of the Castlebar Song Contt 1966 and 1967, and om 1973 to 1998. He prented The Gay Byrne Hour – later the two hour Gay Byrne Show – on RTE Rad 1 each morng.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY

And he prented the Rose of Tralee ftival om 1977 for 17 years until 1986 he was left reelg om the ath of his iend and acuntant, Rsell Murphy, and suffered a double blow when he disvered most of his hard-earned savgs had been squanred by Murphy on a spendg 1988, Gay was award an honorary doctorate letters om Try College, Dubl, and the same year he started hostg the RTÉ People Need Telethon.

A 1998 poll named him most-loved public figure and a year later he was granted the Freedom of the Cy of 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 was succeed by Pat Kenny September, and subsequently succeed by Ryan Tubridy September gave Tubridy his blsg, sayg: “He has all the quali required, the light ft touch together wh a ser md.