Gay Byrne: In his own words – The Irish Tim

Contents:

• GAY BYRNE WAS ‘DOG HIS JOB’ DURG NTROVERSIAL LATE LATE SHOW TERVIEW, EX BISHOP CASEY FLAME ANNIE MURPHY SAYS
• GAY BYRNE: IN HIS OWN WORDS
• GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG
• GAY BYRNE: ‘I AM NO DIFFERENT TO HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY’
• IT STARTED ON THE LATE LATE SHOW: GAYBO'S MOST NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS

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

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.

GAY BYRNE: IN HIS OWN WORDS

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.

GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

"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. It was poor polil judgment on his part sofar as the imprsn given by the anti-Byrne falange was that Gay Byrne, this awful ogre... "Gay Byrne, then 43, pere of The Late Late show sce 1962, photographed 1979 at RTÉ.

" – In terview wh Róisín Ingle for her Irish Tim Róisín Meets podst, Febary 2015 On cricism of his show "There were special unty uncil meetgs lled together to discs The Late Late Show and Gay Byrne. You mt remember, that I lived through people walkg out of the dience of The Late Late Show bee we were discsg the possibily of crimalisg homosexualy. Controversial Irish televisn: The Gay Byrne/Annie Murphy terview 1993.

Annie Murphy was grilled by Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show Pic: RollgNews. Annie was vilified for her actns, most notably on 'The Late Late Show' by Gay Byrne 1993 but also on 'The Phil Donahue Show' Ameri.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG

However, he add that he 'wanted to fly across and ck' Gay Byrne for his treatment of his mother on the same show. 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

Mr Moynihan was so pleased wh young Gay Byrne’s performance that he gave him a threepenny those the stud thought of the boy who, the future, would revolutnise Irish broadstg, remas unknown. She had promised to go to Mass and Communn every day if her hband me back safely om the first World War – they had married Belfast 1917 – which he daily Mass-gog eventually chafed wh the young Gay Byrne and at the age of 14 or 15 he had a ser row wh his mother durg which he said some extremely solent thgs to her.

By the time the uple fally married Saggart Parish Church 1964, their weddg was a celebry event, wh a crowd of more than a thoand gatherg the Dubl village to tch a glimpse of the newlyweds, who need a Garda rt to get to their a broadster, Gay Byrne, or Gaybo, as he me to be known, saw his populary as fickle and as somethg that uld disappear at the whim of the dience. The girls who flocked to the ballrooms uld, if they beme pregnant, fd themselv shut to a mother and baby home for up to two years, spendg their time scbbg floors and workg the kchens, their nam changed, their right to munite wh the outsi world cut off, their babi taken om them to be sent to Ameri on a few hours’ Gay Byrne – who was very well aware of the existence of that other Ireland – chipped away and away at , lethally on The Late Late Show, brgg on, for stance, guts who champned the right of unmarried mothers and their babi to be treated cently by the the old Ireland stepped – and had plenty of reprentativ RTÉ, polics and the civil service – to sist that The Late Late Show stick to “safe” entertament, the story of Gay Byrne would probably be of ltle tert to today. Neverthels, his survival was a remarkable achievement for the boy who got a ser beatg over givg cheek to his mother bee he didn’t want to go to great ntradictn of Gay Byrne, of urse, was that so many of his views he was nservative, though he did so much to unrme the very nservative approach which had characterised Irish life well to the 1960sHe did make one apology which he regretted was the Bishop and the Nightie affair, when he asked a woman the dience what she had worn on her weddg night.