The women behd Gay Byrne’s succs: who they were and what they did – The Irish Tim

Contents:

• GAY BYRNE QUOT
• GAY BYRNE: IN HIS OWN WORDS
• GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE LEADG IRISH BROADSTER OF HIS ERA
• GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR
• GAY BYRNE: ‘I AM NO DIFFERENT TO HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY’
• TOP 2 QUOT & SAYGS BY GAY BYRNE
• GAY BYRNE QUOT
• TOP 2 GAY BYRNE QUOT (2023 UPDATE)
• THE WOMEN BEHD GAY BYRNE’S SUCCS: WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY DID
• GAY BYRNE QUOT
• STEPHEN FRY AND GAY BYRNEIRISH TV TERVIEW TRANSCRIPTN & MENTS
• GAY BYRNE(1934-2019)
• GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

GAY BYRNE QUOT

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.

GAY BYRNE: IN HIS OWN WORDS

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.

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.

GAY BYRNE OBUARY: THE LEADG IRISH BROADSTER OF HIS ERA

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 .

GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

Gay Byrne may have sat at or near the top of the TV ratgs for most of his half-century broadstg but his fancial health was far ls nsistent. Explore popular quot and saygs by an Irish televisn prenter Gay Byrne. Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne was an Irish prenter and host of rad and televisn.

He was affectnately known as "Uncle Gay", "Gaybo" or "Uncle Gaybo". Gay Byrne ›.

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

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We hope you enjoyed our llectn of 2 ee pictur wh Gay Byrne Quot. Was there an army of women Gay Byrne’s rner? Any further e of this image mt be re-negotiated separately wh RTÉ Mra ConnollyGay Byrne’s special assistant and programme executive 1968-1999Mra Connolly worked wh Gay Byrne for more than 30 years, a role enpassg rearcher, artist liaison, stage manager, dience warm-up, troublhooter.

TOP 2 QUOT & SAYGS BY GAY BYRNE

“Gay would always, verg an em, give a cred on air to the producer who rearched , mentng Pan or Mary or Colman. Money rolled towards the surgery (cludg quiz entrants sendg a £1 each; “we lled him the ln dollar kid”, and the remag money started the Gay Byrne Show Fund).

GAY BYRNE QUOT

I had to sell to Gay, and eventually he went for . Audrey Hepburn was another he got ill, “Gay said I don’t want to talk about . They were a tower of strength to Gay.

In a highly creative environment, tempers n go, but Gay was not that sort of person.

TOP 2 GAY BYRNE QUOT (2023 UPDATE)

”Gay Byrne prentg his fal Late Late 1999. Eventually Sbhán sat down and I shed on to the set shoutg to you, ‘Gay quick! Photograph: RTÉ Stills Library Colette FarmerProductn assistant, later director, of the Late Late Show, between 1964 and 1999Gay Byrne’s regular ll-out on the Late Late, “Roll there Colette”, beme a tchphrase and passed to Irish idm.

Colette was Colette Farmer, productn assistant, and an visible prence, through Gaybo’s reference, on the show for many years. In 1991, Farmer beme a TV director, workg on shows om Cursai to Simply Delic, and directed the Late Late Show om 1992 to 1999, cludg Byrne’s last Late “Roll there Colette”, beme “Roll there Rois”, when Rois Hark was image of Gay Byrne projected on to Cy Hall Dubl, as part of the St Patricks day Ftival 2007. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Tim Alice O’SullivanGay Byrne Show rearcher 1989-97; Late Late rearcher 1999.

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

“Gay was my mentor and my iend.

GAY BYRNE QUOT

I really learned all about life workg on the Gay Byrne Show. Women were maly his dience [on the rad] and was all about the dience for Gay.

It opened the floodgat, the secrets people were wrg to Gay. ”She rells briefg Byrne before he terviewed Graham Norton, explag he was the new boy, that the big al growg up Bandon was not that he was gay but that he was prottant; mentng that he was nervo.

STEPHEN FRY AND GAY BYRNEIRISH TV TERVIEW TRANSCRIPTN & MENTS

“When Graham was oppose Gay live, was my brief he was repeatg.

GAY BYRNE(1934-2019)

”Gay Byrne and Ehne Hand Ehne HandRad producer and wrer. Gay Byrne Show rearcher 1990-1994; producer of Byrne's s Sunday Jazz programme on Lyric FM 2013-2016Ehne Hand, who worked briefly on the Late Late Show, on Byrne’s rad show and on his Lyric show, don’t thk he had any particular affy for women’s issu but “he wanted as many people as possible to listen to that show. It was the producers and the rearchers who cid what was on the programme each morng” says: “Gay told me very recently that he learned almost all he ever knew about women’s rights and femism om June Leve, ” when she was a Late Late rearcher.

We weren’t tryg to be a woman’s programme but Gay had a voice and a style that appealed, the listeners loved him, wanted to tell him all sorts of thgs, and they were mostly women.

“I thk Gay did like that. Rearcher on Gay Byrne Show for a year the journalist observed 2014: "It is not to say, eher, that Byrne was ever a sat.

GAY BYRNE: HIS TOP 10 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON AIR

”This article was amend on November 11th, 2019, to clarify a reference to the “Roll there Colette” phrase ed by Gay Byrne. Stephen y terview gay byrne Youtube clip transcriptn. The followg is a transcriptn of a notably ntroversial passage of dialogue om Gay Byrne's terview on Irish TV, specifilly om an episo of.

Gay Byrne:... This particular segment of Gay Byrne's TV terview wh Stephen Fry as part of Irish televisn's "The Meang of Life" seri proved to be most ntroversial and attracted. Key post-terview ments om Gay Byrne and Stephen Fry.