Gay Byrne obuary: The matro of Irish broadstg – The Irish Tim

Contents:

• GAY BYRNE: ‘I AM NO DIFFERENT TO HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY’
• THE WOMEN BEHD GAY BYRNE’S SUCCS: WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY DID
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG
• GAY BYRNE
• GAY BYRNE
• DETAILS OF GAY BYRNE'S WILL HE MA JT 12 DAYS BEFORE HIS ATH REVEALED
• GAY BYRNE, TV STAR WHO 'CHALLENGED IRISH SOCIETY', DI AGED 85
• GAY BYRNE(1934-2019)
• GAY BYRNE, VETERAN IRISH BROADSTER, AD AT 85
• GAY BYRNE TO RECEIVE COUNSELLG AFTER INTERVIEW WH STEPHEN FRY
• ON THIS DAY: IRISH TV AND RAD PRENTER GAY BYRNE BORN DUBL
• GAY BYRNE’S CRECHE OWNER DGHTER CRONA SAYS ‘GROWN WOMEN CRYG DOWN PHONE AT NIGHT’ OVER CHILDRE DTRY CRISIS
• GAY BYRNE, WHO TACKLED TABOOS AS IRELAND’S TV HOST, DI AT 85

GAY BYRNE: ‘I AM NO DIFFERENT TO HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY’

Gay Byrne may have sat at or near the top of the TV ratgs for most of his half-century broadstg but his fancial health was far ls nsistent. Was there an army of women Gay Byrne’s rner?

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).

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

I had to sell to Gay, and eventually he went for . Audrey Hepburn was another he got ill, “Gay said I don’t want to talk about .

GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG

They were a tower of strength to Gay.

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In a highly creative environment, tempers n go, but Gay was not that sort of person. ”Gay Byrne prentg his fal Late Late 1999. Eventually Sbhán sat down and I shed on to the set shoutg to you, ‘Gay quick!

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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.

DETAILS OF GAY BYRNE'S WILL HE MA JT 12 DAYS BEFORE HIS ATH REVEALED

Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Tim Alice O’SullivanGay Byrne Show rearcher 1989-97; Late Late rearcher 1999. “Gay was my mentor and my iend.

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

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.

GAY BYRNE(1934-2019)

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. “When Graham was oppose Gay live, was my brief he was repeatg.

GAY BYRNE, VETERAN IRISH BROADSTER, AD AT 85

”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.

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 TO RECEIVE COUNSELLG AFTER INTERVIEW WH STEPHEN FRY

“I thk Gay did like that.

ON THIS DAY: IRISH TV AND RAD PRENTER GAY BYRNE BORN DUBL

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. Patrick Freyne looks back at the reer of the multi award-wng broadster Gay Byrne.

GAY BYRNE’S CRECHE OWNER DGHTER CRONA SAYS ‘GROWN WOMEN CRYG DOWN PHONE AT NIGHT’ OVER CHILDRE DTRY CRISIS

Stills: The Irish Tim/ As creded Gay Byrne Born: Augt 5th, 1934 Died: November 4th, 2019Gay Byrne, who has died at the age of 85, was the undisputed leadg figure the history of Irish broadstg, and played a hugely fluential role the transformatn of attus the latter part of the 20th a reer that spanned six s, he was father figure, nfsor, quisor and entertaer, all rolled to one.

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

Both parents were om Co Wicklow, his father om Kildry (where Gay Byrne’s grandfather was achman to the Earl of Meath) and his mother om Bray.

It was partly for this reason that the young Gay Byrne never got close to him. She was termed that her children would better themselv and sent Gay to sendary regular e om Guns’s ma the fay more fortunate than many others.