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• WHO ARE GAY BYRNE'S DGHTERS CRONA AND SUZY? ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AS THEY APPEAR ON RTE'S LATE LATE SHOWHERE'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE DGHTERS OF ONE OF IRELAND'S MOST LOVED BROADSTERSIRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSHOWBIZBYCOL BRENNAN15:52, 21 MAY 2021BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWWANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREMORE 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 WANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREINVALID 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!
• YOUR MEMORI OF GAY BYRNE: ‘I FEEL LIKE PART OF MY CHILDHOOD HAS DIED’
• GAY BYRNE
• GAY BYRNE: THE GREATT SHOWMAN
• IT STARTED ON THE LATE LATE SHOW: GAYBO'S MOST NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS
• I WAS TOO YOUNG TO APPRECIATE GAY BYRNE BUT HE WAS A MEAN SHOT WH A WATER PISTOL
• DETAILS OF GAY BYRNE'S WILL HE MA JT 12 DAYS BEFORE HIS ATH REVEALED
• GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
• 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(1934-2019)
• GAY BYRNE'S DGHTERS WERE 'MORTIFIED' BY HIS REVOLUTNARY DISCSNS
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY

WHO ARE GAY BYRNE'S DGHTERS CRONA AND SUZY? ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AS THEY APPEAR ON RTE'S LATE LATE SHOWHERE'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE DGHTERS OF ONE OF IRELAND'S MOST LOVED BROADSTERSIRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSHOWBIZBYCOL BRENNAN15:52, 21 MAY 2021BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWWANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREMORE 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 WANT ALL THE LATT SHOWBIZ NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOX? SHARE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEWS, GOSSIP AND MOREINVALID 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!

Crona and Suzy Byrne will speak about what was like to grow up as the dghters of Ireland's most famo broadster, Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show tonight. Suzy paid an emotnal tribute to her legendary father at his funeral mass Dubl two years ago, thankg fay, iends and staff at the Mater Hospal who looked after Gaybo over the years.

YOUR MEMORI OF GAY BYRNE: ‘I FEEL LIKE PART OF MY CHILDHOOD HAS DIED’

– Avril Ingram LondonBack the 1980s my late father wrote to Gay Byrne about the trials and tribulatns of tryg to n a small engeerg and nstctn bs.

He tly was a pneer; as a man he ma empathy the normal rponse my lifeGay Byrne, then 43, pere of The Late Late show sce 1962, photographed 1979 at RTÉ. This was somethg I uld appreciate even my very young years, as Gay Byrne had a way of relatg to all, young and old, and makg part of the story of a changg Ireland. – Lorrae M Co GalwayThe Gay Byrne Show rned all 13 Cron siblgs wh their parents 1998 We the Cron fay of Ballyfermot, wt Dubl, are forever grateful to Gay and his show for the gift of our fay homeg, live on his rad programme, on December 18th, 1998, when he surprised our parents wh the rnn of all 13 children unr the one roof after 26 years.

– Anne Marie Hourigan DevonIt was Febary 1986, three months after the publitn of my book The Dtctn of Dubl, and I was stg bi Gaybo on The Late Late Show, wearg a black leather jacket and a th yellow leather tie, facg a panel that clud Frank Feely, who was Dubl cy manager at the time, and Sam Stephenson, the notor archect, discsg the state of the cy and what should be done about . Gay was headg for a short bathroom break, and I said to him, "You know all the lads will be rollg those on their fgers and sayg, 'Mary, we're safe tonight. Photograph: RTÉ When we were growg up our strange, orange-and-brown 1980s home Glasnev, north Dubl, Gay Byrne was nsired godlike by my mother.

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' Managed to make me lgh no matter how many tim I heard Some of my earlit and fonst memori are of listeng to the Gay Byrne rad show the kchen wh my mom. – San SlaneAnne O Neill’s son William wh Gay Byrne on O’Connell Street Dubl More than 12 years ago, while a stunt at the Natnal College of Art and Dign, my son William spotted Gay Byrne as he waed, hat pulled low across his forehead, to cross O'Connell Street Dubl.

GAY BYRNE: THE GREATT SHOWMAN

– John Rogers Abu DhabiWe always admired Gaybo's art beg able first to lay a fger a fterg wound and, moments later, to have stch wh a hilar storyIn 1981 my first hband and I bought a relict ttage Co Lerim. Photograph: Eddie Kelly Dpe havg harboured a ol, on-trend teenage rejectn of Uncle Gaybo, when I was faced wh him my late 20s, on the top floor of RTÉ, I was stantly won over by this charismatic, charmg man, who seemed to float the length of the rridor towards me.

– Douglas Syme ArizonaKathleen, should be well wh your soul that you were the one to live this amazg life wh your beloved GayBack 1967, while still St Louis' Sendary School, I was asked to sg on The Late Late Show by Pan Colls, his rearcher.

IT STARTED ON THE LATE LATE SHOW: GAYBO'S MOST NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS

Her words about Gay and his health were betiful, and she monstrated aga why so great a man would wd up wh so betiful a soul, even though the grandchildren lovgly scribed her as daft. – Mary Lyons (nee Cooney) New JerseyGay Byrne wh the Harley-Davidson that Larry Mullen and Bono of U2 gave him on his fal Late Late Show, 1999. Photograph: Peter Rowen My first memory of Gay Byrne is om the late (Late Late) 1970s, via parentally sanctned transgrsns that allowed me to sneak down om my bed, while my younger sister was fast asleep, to watch the show on a Saturday night – only to be hooshed up the stairs aga if somethg unsuable was on.

Ireland the 1960s and 1970s was domated by poverty and the Catholic Church, and Gay Byrne, spe his platform, did ltle or nothg to challenge that.

I WAS TOO YOUNG TO APPRECIATE GAY BYRNE BUT HE WAS A MEAN SHOT WH A WATER PISTOL

– John Scully FranceIn the 1960s Gay prented a Saturday-afternoon rad programme where people sent an object and he'd play a song relevant to . Gay went on to expla to his listeners that he too had learned to swim as an adult and that he uld pletely empathise wh me about how hard that was.

Gay's words of enuragement, and the sense of satisfactn I got om the fact that he thought enough of my wrg to read out my letters, have spired me ever sce.

Gay Byrne helped me accept that the gog was tough at tim, to feel part of the wir world and to five myself for beg humanAs a new mother 1980s Ireland I had given up my job to stay home and be the perfect mum.

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

Only an terviewer as skilled as Gay uld effortlsly gui a subject om reticent nervo gut to articulate and passnate rantr of his life and terts. Before he was a well-known actor and prenter, Simon Delaney was one of the few who ma to the hot-seat oppose Gay Byrne for a chance at a ln pounds. “A day later I got a geo rd om Gay, and said ‘ngratulatns on Jimmy Rabbte, ’s a great succs’ and he said ‘’s a good job you got that qutn wrong all those years ago, otherwise where would we all be’.

The Irish Inpennt reported June 2003 that RTÉ had taken the fal cisn not to proceed wh the next seri – somethg not particularly well received by Gay.

When Annie Murphy, at the centre of a sndal when she ma public that she'd given birth to a son whose father was Eamon Casey, the then Bishop of Galway, appeared on the show, Gay seemed to si wh Casey, who had clearly taken advantage of a vulnerable young woman. The show beme a fom where ntroversial topics such as the fluence of the Catholic Church, ntraceptn, AIDS, homosexualy, abortn, and divorce uld be openly Bishop and the NightieThe first major ntroversy emerged 1966 what has bee known as The Bishop and the Nightie affair. Gay Byrne later issued a statement sayg had not been the show’s tentn to embarrass poted out that was a late-night show signed for adult viewg.

GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

Markg 500 episos, he terviewed Gay about the last 17 years of the was about to announce a gut lled ‘Dana Andrews’, when Eamonn Andrews appeared on set to Gay’s surprise.

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

Prottors gathered to rece s of the rosary, sg hymns as the show got 's First AppearanceIn 1983, U2 ont man Bono talked to Gay Byrne about makg the vio for ‘New Year’s Day’, playg the Danln Market Dubl and why he thought dgs were borg.

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

”The Lambo IncintIn 1987, the late broadster Gerry Ryan and a group of volunteers spent time the untrysi of Connemara as part of The Gay Byrne Show. Gay chose a panel of public figur - Jim Kemmy, Dermot Ahern, Michael McDowell, Hugh Leonard and At himself refed to shake hands wh Adams but the SF lear proved more skillful at bate than was expected. "She then promptly thanked Gay Byrne for the terview and left the TiernanThe same year, edian Tommy Tiernan ed material on The Late Late Show, which many viewers felt poked fun at the Ccifixn.

GAY BYRNE(1934-2019)

The performance was seen as very out of touch, at a time when hoe pric Ireland were risg dramatilly, His performance sparked Tom Gilmart's -operatn wh what was to bee the longt-nng tribunal the history of the Keane and 'Sweetie'On his send last show, Gay Byrne terviewed the gossip lumnist Terry Keane, who went on to reveal a long affair wh the former Taoiseach, Charl Hghey, scribg him as her 'sweetie'. ” was the standard ice-breaker among the adults until Wednday the followg week, when “Who d’you thk Gay will have on the Late Late this weekend? After I had ntal surgery as a small child, and through a few wters of throat fectns and other ailments, was Gay who, jt as on The Late Late Show, would talk me to sleep, the reassurg pch of his famoly mellifluo voice meltg through the Gay Byrne Show: if you heard the openg jgle on a school day you knew you’d somehow wangled a day off.

Photograph: Eddie Kelly I asked my brother, who is three years olr, for his memori of Gay Byrne, and he told me about the 1991 Late Late Toy Show, when Gay squirted the dience wh a Super Soaker full of water, as utterly thrillg.

I am a ltle sad that my imprsns of Gay Byrne when I was growg up were limed to what I uld grasp at the time and that I was born a b too late to unrstand the way attus pivoted after his rise to promence.

GAY BYRNE'S DGHTERS WERE 'MORTIFIED' BY HIS REVOLUTNARY DISCSNS

Son of Guns worker Edward Byrne, the young Gay began his reer after leavg school Synge Street triple-jobbg as an surance clerk, a variety pere and host on RTE Rad. Stts at Rad Eireann weren't enough for Gay, who soon moved over the water to Granada TV, beg the first person to troduce The Beatl on telly 1963. Shortly afterwards, Gay returned to Ireland beg the biggt name Irish broadstg for the last half century wh a morng rad programme on RTE Rad and RTE TV's flagship programme The Late Late Show, which he hosted until 1999.

It was a goln age of TV where anythg uld happen and often did om actor Oliver Reed throwg himself at actrs San Gee on live TV, to Gay challengg psychiatrist RD Lag for g on dnk.

Even more ntroversial was Gay's terview the year before 1993 wh Annie Murphy, who revealed the tails of her affair wh the Bishop of Galway Eamon Casey, which led to their birth of their son. But Gaybo's fence, late newspaper edor Pl Dry said "All Gay had been dog was reflectg the mood of the Irish people - most of whom, back then, still had an enormo rpect and affectn for Dr Casey.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG

Gay Byrne had terviewed a married uple om the dience, Richard and Eileen Fox om Terenure Dubl, and asked each of them a seri of qutns while the other was out of earshot. In her book, The Gaybo Revolutn: How Gay Byrne Challenged Irish Society, thor Fola Doyle-O’Neil wrote: "From 1962 to 1999, Byrne mataed what appeared to be an effortls grip on the live talk show, both on rad and on was not a missnary; he was a talented broadster who had no hatn phg boundari to make entertag televisn. No one ptured the mood of the natn more than Gay when he vered the ath of 15-year-old Anne Lovett, who had given birth to a stillborn child next to the Grotto of Our Lady a field Granard Co Longford, which beme one of the most poignant stori vered by the groundbreakg Gay Byrne rad programme.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY

On page 224, Gay reunted how Ryan Tubridy's grandfather Todd Andrews, then Chairman of the RTE Authory, once rang RTE's Director General to tell him "get rid of that f***er Byrne. It was the late Gerry Ryan who joked shortly before his ath "'s a py Gay wasn't ad" bee the olr man so often got the shows he wanted to do, cludg beg the job of hostg an Irish versn of Who Wants To Be A Millnaire, another post Late Late outg for Byrne semi-retirement. Close pals said Gay's reluctance to stop workg was fuelled by his experienc wh late acuntant acuntant Rsell Murphy, who effectively stole everythg Gay ma durg his early reer.

Fah discsn The Meang of Life, and entertament show For One Night Only were other vehicl for Gay semi-retirement, as well as a Sunday afternoon programme on Lyric FM which quickly beme the most listened to show on the easy listeng statn. If that didn't make his semi-retirement by enough, 2006 Gay beme boss of The Road Safety Authory vowg he would "walk away" om the job if nonted by a "solid wall of burecracy".