Gay Byrne: The Greatt Showman

Gay Byrne. Wrer: Dave Allen at Large. Gay Byrne was born on 5 Augt 1934 Dubl, Ireland. He was a wrer and actor, known for Dave Allen at Large (1971), Mrs. Brown's Boys: The Origal Seri (2002) and Voic That Care (1991). He was prevly married to Kathleen Watks. He died on 4 November 2019 Sandymount, Dubl, County Dubl, Ireland." data-id="ma * gay byrne young *

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.

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.

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

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– 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.

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

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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.

– 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.

GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

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.

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

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

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. 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.

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.

”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.

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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'S DGHTERS WERE 'MORTIFIED' BY HIS REVOLUTNARY DISCSNS

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 OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG

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.

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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.

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