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As the rtege rryg Gay Byrne on his fal journey crted the hill of Howth and scend to the village wh the sun at s back, several hundred people led the street and appld as the hearse and four mourng rs passed the imposg Catholic Church and scend towards the harbour.

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ON GAY BYRNE'S FAL JOURNEY OM HIS BELOVED HOWTH, TOWN FALLS SILENT REMEMBERG ONE OF S OWN

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The ff of broadster Gay Byrne is brought to St Ftan’s Cemetery after his funeral mass. Picture: Mark CondrenLiam CollsFri 8 Nov 2019 at 17:30As the rtege rryg Gay Byrne on his fal journey crted the hill of Howth and scend to the village wh the sun at s back, several hundred people led the street and appld as the hearse and four mourng rs passed the imposg Catholic Church and scend towards the harbour.

Photos: Mark Condren; Gerry Mooney; David Conachy and Col KeeganLiam CollsSat 9 Nov 2019 at 03:30As the rtège rryg Gay Byrne on his fal journey crted the hill of Howth and scend to the village wh the sun at s back, several hundred people led the street and appld.

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”.

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As the rtège rryg Gay Byrne on his fal journey crted the hill of Howth and scend to the village wh the sun at s back, several hundred people led the street and appld. * gay byrne howth *

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. Gay was known for verg taboo topics cludg ntraceptn, lbians and the historic 'Bishop and the Nightie'. The ntroversy didn’t stop there, as Gay refed to shake hands wh Gerry Adams on air back 1994.

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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.

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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.

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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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. 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.

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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. 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 passed away two years ago on November 4, 2019. A natn says goodbye to Gay Byrne - the man who 'showed to ourselv'. The funeral of Gay Byrne took place at the Pro Cathedral Dubl yterday.

EVERYONE BROUGHT THEIR memori to the Pro Cathedral Dubl yterday for the funeral of Gay Byrne.

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Instead, among the hundreds who gathered yterday morng on Marlborough Street to attend the late broadster’s funeral, many people reunted specific moments om the reer of Gay Byrne that stayed wh them all their liv. Standg jt back om the Luas tracks, which tndled past every few mut, they remembered quiet, private moments where Gay’s voice had seemed to speak only to them.

One man outsi the thedral reunted microspic tail how Gay Byrne had once ed his rad show to pla about people’s reactns to a flood road on a ray day Howth. Another remembered how 25 years ago he’d tape rerd Gay Byrne’s rad show his r so he never missed . Some of the people there today had met Gay Byrne, whether at outsi broadsts, the Rose of Tralee or the Late Late Show dience.

“Cathedral closed to facilate preparatn for funeral of Mr Gay Byrne, ” a sign read bi the door. 30am, one of the stewards whispered that the 800-seater church was “jammers now”, but still they poured , the odd fan slippg alongsi Gay Byrne’s iends and lleagu.

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“What Irish people have done this week jt remds , we’re jt an extraordary untry and Gay saw that. Behd the ont rows, occupied by Gay’s fay and Print Michael D Higgs and wife Saba, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil lear Micheál Mart stood feet away om Tubridy, Pat Kenny and RTÉ boss Dee Forb.

Nor uld the ironi of Gay Byrne’s own life be ignored – the gentle TV star whose shows were the srn of the Catholic Church, but who remaed relig to the end. It was a Fr Leonard Maloney his hoy who first addrsed the paradox of Gay Byrne’s place Irish life – a small reflectn of how much ‘official Ireland’ has changed.

Gay Byrne's dghter Suzy touch her father's ff durg his funeral service. Gay often voted large segments of his two-hour rad programme to readg extracts om the movg and often harrowg letters sent by women om all over Ireland tellg, perhaps for the first time ever, of suffergs and vlatns vised on them.

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Bee Gay Byrne wasn’t a preacher or an evangelist, but stead someone who shepherd Ireland on the heady journey to the TV world.

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Gay Byrne's funeral rtège will travel om Howth to Dubl cy centre and back to Sutton tomorrow, givg the public a chance to pay their rpects to the legendary broadster on his fal route home. One of Ireland's most regnisable personali and the man affectnately known as 'Uncle Gaybo', Gay Byrne died on Monday after a long illns. However, until now, Gay Byrne and Kathleen Watks – one of Ireland’s bt-loved upl – have risted our persistent advanc.

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But took a mannerly ltle pig lled Pigín to nvce Kathleen to this VIP exclive, wh her dotg hband Gay, who upon arrival kissed his wife of 50 years, and lovgly greeted his elst dghter Suzy and three of their five beloved grandchildren, Cian (11), Sadhbh and Saoirse.

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And Gay, we know is very proud, spe his tongue--cheek answers, which you n read below. Kathleen, you and Gay are supposed to be retired and havg lunch Howth Yacht Club, not dog a photoshoot ! And the hours were gog by so slowly, and I said to Gay: “I n’t stand any longer, we have got to go to the hospal.

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Gay says the secret of a happy marriage is: “You do what you’re told, when you’re told, how you’re told. We image Gay lik a strong woman bee he is a strong character himself. I thk Gay is very good wh people and very good at givg them time.

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The only thg was on ocsn if Gay and I were out for dner, somebody might e and terpt , and I found that a b vasive. And then Gay had his heart attack two days later, so we’re hopg this Christmas we’ll have a ltle ls excement of that kd! The property adjos the former home of Gay Byrne and Kathleen Watks, now owned by Byrne's dghter and her the fay grown, Moya (56) and John (70) are downsizg, but they won’t be qutg the area pletely and will rema remas volved the sellout Heartbeat of Home productn and a new theatre productn, A Day May, but his growg passn is photography.

A dghter of the broadster Gay Byrne, whose funeral tak place on Friday, says her father would have lghed at the ntroversy about the e of a sad Mr Tayto crisp mast reactg to the news that he had died at his home the pany of his wife, Kathleen Watks, and dghters, Crona and Suzy, Howth, Co Dubl, on Monday after beg ill wh prostate ncer. ”Gay Byrne's funeral Mass tak place at noon the pro-thedral on Marlborough Street, Dubl, and will be followed by a private burial at St Ftan's cemetery Sutton. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialGay Byrne at his home Howth, 03/05/1985 (Part of the Inpennt Newspapers Ireland/NLI Collectn).

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(Photo by Inpennt News and Media/Getty Imag)Gay Byrne at his home Howth, 03/05/1985 (Part of the Inpennt Newspapers Ireland/NLI Collectn).

Funeral rtège of Gay Byrne to pass through Howth Village en route to Pro Cathedral. LARGE CROWDS ARE expected to attend the funeral of Gay Byrne Dubl today.

Gay Byrne was remembered at his funeral on Friday as a much loved hband and father, a iend and lleague and so very much was, said the pridg celebrant Father Leonard Moloney, "choirmaster of the natnal nversatn", a broadster who gave people a voice simply by listeng to what they had to his hoy, Fr Moloney relled Byrne once explag that if you wanted someone to talk, the trick was to listen to what they had to Byrne: 1934-2019. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw He said that Gay believed no one was "really ordary". He was 85 and had been broadstg, Ireland and, briefly, the UK, almost ntually sce the funeral service St Mary’s Pro Cathedral was a polished affair, largely void of exprsns of grief but rather imbued wh a sense of gratu – formal but warm, iendly and timate as mass booklet for the funeral of Gay Byrne.

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