Gay Byrne: The ‘Conservative Catholic’ Who Changed Ireland on JSTOR

Contents:

• GAY BYRNE WAS ‘DOG HIS JOB’ DURG NTROVERSIAL LATE LATE SHOW TERVIEW, EX BISHOP CASEY FLAME ANNIE MURPHY SAYS
• GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE LEADG IRISH BROADSTER OF HIS ERA
• WHO WAS GAY BYRNE? LATE LATE SHOW HOST AND RTE NEWS BROADSTER
• GAY BYRNE
• BEHD THE SCEN OF GAY BYRNE’S LATE LATE SHOW
• THE WOMEN BEHD GAY BYRNE’S SUCCS: WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY DID
• IRISH BROADSTG LEGEND GAY BYRNE DI AGED 85
• GAY BYRNE, TV STAR WHO 'CHALLENGED IRISH SOCIETY', DI AGED 85
• GAY BYRNE: THE GREATT SHOWMAN
• IN PICS: GAY BYRNE’S FAL LATE LATE SHOW AFTER 37 YEARS AS HOST
• DON MCLEAN RELLS MEETG WH GAY BYRNE ON LATE LATE SHOW AND ODD OBSERVATN ABOUT RTE HOST“HE REMD ME OF ONE OF THE IRISH CHRISTIAN BROTHERS I HAD AT SCHOOL.”IRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARESHOWBIZBYKATIE GALLAGHER08:03, 7 OCT 2022BOOKMARK (IMAGE: COL KEEGAN)WANT 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!

GAY BYRNE WAS ‘DOG HIS JOB’ DURG NTROVERSIAL LATE LATE SHOW TERVIEW, EX BISHOP CASEY FLAME ANNIE MURPHY SAYS

Followg his ath aged 85, we have round up some of Gay Byrne's ft moments on The Late Late Show om over the years. The segment opens hilarly as a very exced lookg Gaybo says the "macho men have e to town" while flanked by a bare-chted Shane Lynch and Keh Duffy cked out dungare and brac. After scribg a Take That ncert The Pot, Gay bluntly says "the lads have cid to sh on that particular market", and go on to grill them about their mil prows.

After they each list out which stment they n play, Gay is forthright once more, sayg: "I was told you don't play any stments at all, none of you.

However, when an dience member says they're "more like the Chippendal", Gay is more fivg, sayg: "Listen, what do you expect, they're only startg.". Gaybo slds RD Lag for beg "unr the weather" and handl hecklers very well (1985).

GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

Famed Sttish psychiatrist and wrer RD Lag appeared on The Late Late Show 1985 and 's safe to say Gay wasn't too imprsed.

Lag, who was wily regard as one of the foremost thkers of his time on the topic of mental illns, was acced by Gay of beg "slow" and appearg "unr the weather" durg the terview. When Gay began to say was an "unwrten le for anybody who is gog to appear on televisn" not to have a drk, the dience beme outraged.

In scen that are hard to image today's TV landspe, all hell breaks loose, but Gay tak all his stri. Bumblg waer Manuel om the much-loved BBC s Fawlty Towers, played by the brilliant actor Andrew Sachs, ma a very memorable appearance on The Late Late Show, and Gay proved he had some actg chops too. "Can I have a glass of water?" Gay asks, before Manuel stris out onto the stage wh a jug on a tray.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE LEADG IRISH BROADSTER OF HIS ERA

He ph an outraged lookg Gay out of the way to bow ont of the clappg dience. "You're disptg the show!" Gay yells at him, the perfect picture of dignatn.

Gay then breaks character when appears Manuel has an extra trick up his sleeve, sayg wh a cheeky se: "Watch yourself, jt watch yourself, this is not what we agreed to!". In 1979, after 'only' 500 episos of The Late Late, the tabl - or rather chairs - were turned on Gay. Thkg he was about to greet Amerin star Dana Andrews, Gay was stead prented wh This Is Your Life host Eamonn Andrews, who ngratulated Gay on reachg that tone, and wasted no time lettg his old iend know that he'd been set up by the rt of the Late Late team!

"Will you s down the other chair and let me talk to you about you?" asked Eamonn as Gay tried to make sense of all. Composure somewhat returned, Gay reflected on his 17 screen years the hom of Ireland.

WHO WAS GAY BYRNE? LATE LATE SHOW HOST AND RTE NEWS BROADSTER

Turns out Gay had been to see the "fabulo performer" the Olympia the prev year and told the Late Late dience: "I'd heard about the guy that was performg there that night but I'd never seen him person.

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When the mic stopped, Gay sidled up to the grand piano to fd out more about one of his most enigmatic guts. "You got a nice ltle set up here, don't ya Gay?" said Tom between drags. Love me to town vehicular fashn on Gay's fal Late Late on May 21, 1999 when U2's Bono and Larry Mullen, Jnr ro to Stud One on a Harley-Davidson - and gave Gay one of the shocks of his 37 years hostg the show.

The wdow went down and you stuck your head out and you said, 'Exce me, what sort of a bike is that?' I turned around and I saw you and I said, 'It's a motorbike, Gay!' And you said, 'I love those bik'. The man of the moment and his guts then went over some ancient U2 history, cludg Bono makg a ham of gog out to Gay's hoe bid to get U2 on the Late Late - he didn't even knock on the door! "If I'd known you were gog to give me a Harley-Davidson I would've e to the door!" said Gay.

Profsnal hell-raisers Zig & Zag were beg terviewed by Gay on The Late Late Toy Show 1992 when their furry iend Dt pops up. "I don't believe this is happeng," Gay says when Dt rears his head, before tellg the appldg dience "not to enurage them".

BEHD THE SCEN OF GAY BYRNE’S LATE LATE SHOW

"Did they have nothg left wardrobe except for that jumper?" Dt quips about Gay's Christmas jumper.

What uld be utterly crgeworthy at the hands of another broadster, works brilliantly wh Gay ntrol as he plays up his ntankero si. The Late Late Show was dog a quiz and Gay picked a married uple, Richard and Eileen Fox, om the dience and asked each of them a seri of qutns while the other was out of earshot. Gay later issued a statement, sayg no embarrassment was tend and that The Late Late was a late-night show for adults.

Pan told Gay that the show she most enjoyed workg on was the 70th birthday tribute to Micheál Mac Liammóir 1969. Eventually Sbhán sat down and I shed onto the set shoutg to you, 'Gay quick! Wh that, Gay showed the clip, addg: "That's the only barbecued birthday ke you're likely to see!".

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

THE FORMER lover of Bishop Casey, Annie Murphy has said that Gay Byrne was "jt dog his job" durg her ntroversial Late Late Show terview. 3 Murphy has said that Gay was "jt dog his job"Cred: News Group Newspapers Ltd.

Lookg back, Gay Byrne would only say: "The public thought I had done a bad terview. 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. At the time, Byrne was cricised by some for his handlg of the terview, but Murphy has said she believ that Gay had a right to say what he said.

"But [Gay] did his job, what he felt she should do and I jt said I'm gog to leave bee there is no more sense hangg around.

IRISH BROADSTG LEGEND GAY BYRNE DI AGED 85

In a televisn and rad reer spanng almost 60 years, Gay Byrne had plenty of memorable moments to choose om - we've whtled them down to 10 no particular orr. When Gaybo asked Richard what lour nightie his wife wore on honeymoon, Richard said was transparent, while his new wife said she uldn’t remember; perhaps she’d not worn any at all. In the weeks after her ath, hundreds of Irish women wrote to Gay Byrne outlg the vastatg impact of their own secret pregnanci, some of which were a rult of sexual abe, ct or rape.

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

Gay broadst the letters to a stunned natn on his morng rad show on Rad One, markg the start of a new nversatn about teenage pregnancy which ultimately helped dispel the stigma and shame3. When she told Gay Byrne who her Sweetie really was, the natn was agog and Hghey went to hidg om the media as a rult. Hghey never spoke to Terry Keane Keane talks to Gay Byrne on The Late Late ronan lang8.

Gaybo told Casey’s former lover: ‘If your son is half as good a man as is his father, he won’t be dog too bad. Stephen FryLong after his years on the Late Late Show, Gay Byrne uld still draw lns of viewers. While beg terviewed on The Meang of Life, Gay asked Fry what he would say to God if he had a chance.

Image source, Getty ImagGay Byrne, or Gaybo, as he was almost universally known, was the leadg Irish broadster of his anchor of the Late Late Show, he steered the dience through the highs and lows of Irish Ballybunn to Buncrana, he was a faiar and ntroversial face on Irish screens every Friday night, pridg over the shiftg moods of the Republic of Ireland.

GAY BYRNE: THE GREATT SHOWMAN

Image source, Inpennt News and Media/getty imagImage ptn, Gay Byrne his famo terview wh Gerry AdamsIn the 1960s, Byrne, famo for his tchphrase "and there's one for everyone the dience", was the talk of the well as givg out ee gifts to the dience, the programme and s host were creded wh fluencg Irish attus towards many show provid a platform for an unmarried mother to expla her posn at a time when to be such a suatn was still eply owned an terviewer, Byrne was very much his own man, he did not thk twice about sldg one gut who appeared unr the fluence while on another ocsn, he refed to shake the hand of former Sn Fé print Gerry Adams. Unnists were outraged and, shortly afterwards, the secretary of state Late moments:•Amerin woman Annie Murphy: the mother of Bishop Eamonn Casey's son, tells her story•NI Secretary Peter Brooke sgs O My Darlg Clemente wh hours of an IRA bomb •The Gerry Adams/Gay Byrne terview•Irish journalist Terry Keane tells of her affair wh former Taoiseach (Prime Mister) Charlie HgheyIt was not jt policians who had their feathers ffled by Byrne, but prits too.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Late Late Show hosts Pat Kenny, Gay Byrne and Ryan Tubridy celebratg 50 years of the show 2012Bishop of Clonfert, Dr Thomas Ryan, protted vigoroly at the ntent of the Late Late ed natnal outrage and led some to clare the show was "filthy dirty" and "smut" 1993, his terview wh Amerin woman, Annie Murphy, who had a child wh Bishop of Galway Eamonn Casey, end very remarked that Eamonn Casey's son would be fe, if he was "half the man his father" rponse, Ms Murphy icily retorted: "I'm not so bad eher, " before she got up and walked off was not jt Ms Murphy who had been later, her son said he had wanted to "ck" Byrne for the way he had treated his source, RTÉImage ptn, In more recent years Gaybo had a much lower profileAnother notable affair of the heart to be shared wh the Irish public was an terview wh journalist Terry Keane spoke to Byrne about her long-standg relatnship wh former Taoiseach (Irish prime mister) Charl Hghey. Image source, Inpennt News and Media/getty imagImage ptn, On his last Late Late Show Larry Mullen and Bono om U2 gave Gay a Harley DavidsonAfter biddg his fal "goodnight" to viewers May 1999 after 37 years on the show, Byrne said he planned to "do nothg" for six months.

IN PICS: GAY BYRNE’S FAL LATE LATE SHOW AFTER 37 YEARS AS HOST

His employers, RTÉ, said after his parture that the door would "always be open for a return for Gaybo" more recent years he has had a much lower profile, but still prented rad and televisn programm and was the chairman of Ireland's Road Safety Authory. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Gay and his wife Kathleen Watks pictured 2015He briefly flirted wh the ia of nng for the Irish princy before cidg agast . Gabriel "Gay" Byrne beme the biggt name Irish broadstg, hostg RTE's The Late Late Show for more than 30 years.

Gay Byrne, affectnately known "uncle Gaybo" was born Rialto, Dubl 1934.

Gay had an illtr reer - he was the first person to troduce The Beatl on Irish televisn, and raised ntroversial issu like sexualy, abortn and The Troubl on his shows. Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tweeted: "Gay Byrne was the most fluential broadster the history of the State, a much-loved figure who changed Ireland for the better so many ways. "On rad and on televisn over so many s 'Uncle Gaybo' provid a voice for all those who had been silenced or were aaid to speak up, and helped nont thgs that need to be changed.

DON MCLEAN RELLS MEETG WH GAY BYRNE ON LATE LATE SHOW AND ODD OBSERVATN ABOUT RTE HOST“HE REMD ME OF ONE OF THE IRISH CHRISTIAN BROTHERS I HAD AT SCHOOL.”IRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARESHOWBIZBYKATIE GALLAGHER08:03, 7 OCT 2022BOOKMARK (IMAGE: COL KEEGAN)WANT 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!

His fay said: "We wish to thank everybody for their love and support durg Gay's illns.

Gay Byrne (1934-2019) a rad and televisn broadster was born Dubl and he joed Rad Éireann 1958.

As a young man of 29, producg The Late Late Show wh Gay Byrne was one of those for me.