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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
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. * gay byrne annie murphy *
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.
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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.
GAY BYRNE: IN HIS OWN WORDS
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"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.
GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
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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.
GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE MATRO OF IRISH BROADSTG
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. 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.
GAY BYRNE: ‘I AM NO DIFFERENT TO HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY’
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.
IT STARTED ON THE LATE LATE SHOW: GAYBO'S MOST NTROVERSIAL MOMENTS
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.