Gay Byrne is an Irish presenter and host of radio and television. He was the first host of The Late Late Show over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999.
Television
Sean O'GradyGay Byrne has admitted that, if given the chance, he would never host the Late...
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Independent.ie NewsdeskAuthor and broadcaster Kathleen Watkins opened up last night about her husband...
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Barry EganGay Byrne has revealed RTE want him back on air to present his Sunday show on...
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Barry EganIt's a moveable feast with Gay Byrne and Kathleen Watkins, or Uncle Gaybo and Auntie Kathleen as the nation fondly...
Gay Byrne At the time of writing, there is much controversy in the letters pages about our national anthem, mainly provoked by Fintan O'Toole writing of how much he disliked it, it being a load of militaristic...
Gordon Deegan Shareholder funds at the media firm owned by Ireland's most celebrated broadcaster, Gay Byrne, passed the €600,000 mark in 2016.
Sean O'Grady PAT Kenny says his former RTE colleague Gay Byrne has had a “tough time” following his cancer diagnosis, but is doing well.
My wife and I have sent letters at various times to Mary Kennedy and Anne Cassin to congratulate them and their team on Nationwide, which we believe is a smashing little programme. "Little" is used in our business to denote a sort of worthy non-headline-making...
Aoife Kelly Legendary broadcaster Gay Byrne returned to RTE this afternoon to speak to Ray D'Arcy about his 'gruelling' cancer treatment, long career and 'regrets'.
Gay Byrne answers the door to his Sandymount home holding a large glass of whiskey. Jameson, it transpires, in the late afternoon is not one of the well-earned pleasures of semi-retirement after six illustrious decades in broadcasting. It helps him, he says, with...
Independent.ie Newsdesk Veteran RTE broadcaster Gay Byrne has described the chemotherapy treatment he has been receiving for prostate cancer as “gruelling”.
Kathleen Watkins has said her husband Gay Byrne is recovering well from chemotherapy and is in fighting form.
Aoife Kelly Among this year's batch of Rose of Tralee escorts is Jackie Healy Rae Junior, the grandson of the late great Jackie Healy Rae senior and son and nephew or of TDs Michael and Danny.
Kirsty Blake Knox Broadcaster Gay Byrne has joked he is a "lousy patient" as he continues his treatment for prostate cancer.
Kevin Doyle and Cathal McMahon Broadcaster Gay Byrne has described the blasphemy investigation against Stephen Fry as "ridiculous nonsense" after gardaí decided to drop the probe.
By Laura Harding Police have said they will not comment on a complaint of blasphemy reportedly made against Stephen Fry.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. For proof of that famous opening line from LP Hartley's novel The Go Between, we can rewind 50 years to late April 1967 when Tralee prepared itself for the visit of Hollywood glamour girl and former...
Catherine O'Mahony 'She's a disgrace," my mother pronounced softly and shockingly, even as she conceded evenhandedly that Annie Murphy truly was a clever and very handsome woman. But what was she ever...
Terry McGeehan It would be the understatement of the century to say that the nation was shocked in 1992 when it was revealed that Bishop Eamonn Casey had fathered a secret son.
Kirsty Blake Knox When Ryan Tubridy called into Gay Byrne last month for tea and a chat he reported back that Byrne was in "fine form" and had lost none of his "Gay Byrne magic".
Kirsty Blake Knox Broadcaster Gay Byrne is recovering after undergoing two hip replacement surgeries within the space of two weeks.
Wayne O'Connor Broadcaster Gay Byrne was coming to the end of his career as host of The Late Late Show when the producers decided it would be a great idea to take a trip down memory lane on one of his final...
Melanie Finn TV presenter Gay Byrne will not return to the airwaves until 2017 as he continues his fight with prostate cancer.
Amy Mulvaney Ryan Tubridy has said that Gay Byrne "seems to be doing okay" following the news that doctors fear he has prostate cancer.
Caitlin McBride Grammy-nominated singer Hozier has opened up about his father's debilitating spinal condition which marked "the watershed of childhood."
Aoife Kelly Hozier goes head to head with Gay Byrne on the issue of the Church and Catholicism in Ireland in his interview for The Meaning of Life.
Kirsty Blake Knox Singer songwriter Hozier, Tanaiste Joan Burton, Sister Stanislaus Kennedy and writer Richard Dawkins will all take to the hot seat in Gay Byrne’s new series of The Meaning of Life.
Eilis O'Hanlon When Ray D'Arcy returned to RTE at the beginning of February from Today FM, his very first interview on the new show was with Gay Byrne.
Gordon Deegan Ireland's most celebrated broadcaster, Gay Byrne, has left his financial troubles well behind with him with accumulated profits at his media firm last year jumping past the €550,000 mark.
Paul Healy BROADCASTER Gay Byrne has led tributes to a Dublin woman who spent her life campaigning for stricter laws against drink-driving.
Paul Healy Broadcaster Gay Byrne has led tributes to the late road safety campaigner Gertie Shields who spent her life fighting for stricter laws against drink-driving.
There comes a time that every home has the builders in - and over the past month it's been our turn. For gardeners, builders are often the enemy. Thankfully, we happened on the kindest, most considerate builders who took great care not to disturb family or...
Damian Corless The Sixties might have been swinging everywhere from London to San Francisco, but Ireland was still a hostile place for women... a place where the Catholic church held powerful sway and men...
Eamonn Sweeney If Irish national self-esteem was a racehorse, it would have been subject to a Turf Club inquiry by now. The oscillations in form seem simply too severe to be genuine. Our feelings about ourselves as a nation mirror the mood swings produced by over-indulgence in the country's favourite stimulant. We go from, "This is great, I've...
Eilis O'Hanlon Think of it as the awkward moment when you're drafted in as holiday cover for another broadcaster, only for that chap to be abruptly removed from the slot he's held for five years.
Kirsty Blake Knox Val Doonican's soothing vocals, gentle repartee and penchant for eye-catching pullovers were remembered with fondness yesterday following the news of his death.
Letters to the Editor Everything has a sell-by date, including talk shows. Now that 'The Late Late Show' and 'The Saturday Night Show' are on their summer break, could this be made permanent?
Carol Hunt Gay Byrne, as he often does, got straight to the nub of the issue. "This has to do with sex specifically," he said, "and there's a feeling that these girls are getting away with something, [that] this is promiscuity, rampant in our society, and they are being paid to do it." It's 1986 and Gay is interviewing Marianne McArdle, an...
I think you have to be a bit mad to be in this business as you never know what's around the corner," says comedian June Rodgers, who is preparing to go on a nationwide tour. "I'm lucky as I've met amazing people who liked my comedy and helped me along the way, like Gay Byrne, Derek Mooney, Joe Duffy and Pat Kenny."
Kirsty Blake Knox Gay Byrne has been knocking it out of the park again this week with his witty one-liners.
Kirsty Blake Knox Gay Byrne was unimpressed at the Ifta awards when one rookie reporter continued to interrupt him while he was talking to the press on the red carpet.
Gay Byrne and his wife of over fifty years looked like the picture perfect couple as they posed on the red carpet last night.
Sarah Caden 'It must be proved that a man or woman is drunk before they can be arrested," wrote one Irish woman to Gay Byrne's radio show in January, 1990, in the week after an appearance on the...
Majella O'Sullivan THE 1995 Rose of Tralee has paid tribute to Derek Davis, who died on Wednesday, describing him as a "truly uplifting" and "generous professional".
Michael O'Doherty Today is D-Day for Pat Kenny and UTV Ireland - because nine months after he was first announced as the star of the new station we are finally going to see Pat Kenny in the Round.
Liz Kearney Within minutes of sitting down with Pat Kenny for what is supposed to be an in-depth, face-to-face interview with the broadcaster ahead of his new UTV Ireland show, he's calling the shots.
Kirsty Blake Knox High heels and hailstones do not a happy marriage make. But that didn't seem to deter the chic ladies attending the second day of the Punchestown Racing Festival.
Kirsty Blake-Knox and Bairbre Power Gaybo didn't need to be asked twice to head back to Howth to launch a photographic exhibition by his good pal, John McColgan of Riverdance fame whose 'Howth Horizons' show was a major...
Greg Harkin BROADCASTER Gay Byrne has revealed how he refused to buy a holiday home in Donegal five times before “finally giving in”.
Aoife Kelly Irish music magazine Hot Press has just released its landmark 900th issue and to celebrate it's taking a look back over almost 38 years of controversial covers and, particularly in hindsight, some pretty...
Kirsty Blake Knox Expatriates missing the drama of Carrigstown or Ryan Tubridy's late-night offerings will now be able to catch up with their favourite shows on RTE's International Player App.
Kirsty Blake Knox Veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne (80) was in good spirits when attending the launch of The Diageo Guinness World 1 Archive Exhibition.
Former Late Late Show host Gay Byrne has emerged as a beneficiary of a major office block deal in the IFSC.
NIamh Horan It's been 18 years since the tragic death of Princess Diana, but her younger brother Earl Charles Spencer is one man still gripped by the trauma of her funeral.
Ruth O'Neill Stephen Fry has revealed he was in "complete shock" over his 'Meaning of Life' interview with Gay Byrne.
Kirsty Blake Knox Gay Byrne described the Guinness Brewery and St James's Gate as a "safe haven" for shell-shocked returning WWI soldiers.
John Waters George Hook went into hospital with kneehilism and came out a reborn member of the Roman Church. Stephen Fry went on 'The Meaning of Life' an atheist and got into an argument with the...
Eilis O'Hanlon Having Gay Byrne as the first major guest was an intriguing statement of intent as Ray D'Arcy returned to the airwaves last week after unexpectedly dumping Today FM and getting back with his ex.
Carol Hunt The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne (RTE1). OCD and ME (RTE1). Abortion: Ireland's Guilty Secret (BBC3).
Niamh Horan On a recent episode of The Meaning of Life on RTE One, presented by Gay Byrne, Stephen Fry responded to the question of what he might say to God at the pearly gates. "How dare you create a world in which there is such misery? It's not our fault. It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?" The video has since been watched...
I was not in the least surprised by what Stephen Fry had to say about God on The Meaning of Life, because Stephen is an atheist. He was just a little more passionate and committed and strong about it, and more articulate, than other people.
Sarah Carey Last year my favourite word was "authentic". I liked "authentic" people, even if I disagreed with them. My new favourite word is "binary": I've diagnosed it's the reason behind the rot of public...
Emer O'Kelly Not having seen the live broadcast of Gay Byrne's Meaning of Life interview with the English National Treasure Stephen Fry, I was under the impression that the man of keen wit and effortless intellectual brilliance had indulged in an hour-long vituperative rant against everything decent that "normal" people hold dear.
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Darragh McManus Videos going viral are nothing new, but the speed and scale of how Stephen Fry's "God" comments spread this week were still remarkable. The actor made his caustic - though far from unique...
At the last count, it had five million views on YouTube, and that's in the space of a week. I'm referring to a clip from an interview Gay Byrne conducted with Stephen Fry on the RTE show, 'The Meaning of Life'.
Michael McHugh The incoming head of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has accused Stephen Fry of spiritual blindness.
Letters to the Editor Several members of the Oireachtas, including Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, have publicly boasted that they will not pay water charges.
Elaine McCahill Ray D'Arcy has admitted it was an "odd day" to be returning to RTE for his first show on Radio 1.
Letters to the Editor Stephen Fry's recent interview with Gay Byrne raised issues with which many thinking people, especially those of us who were born in the 1940s and who have lost God, have been grappling.
David Kearns Last night RTE finally aired its interview with Stephen Fry as part of Gay Byrne’s The Meaning of Life series.
Aoife Kelly Legendary broadcaster Gay Byrne is unfazed by the fact that Stephen Fry's response to his question about God on 'The Meaning of Life' has gone viral and garnered 4 million views online.
John Boland In The Meaning of Life (RTÉ1), bestselling author Cecelia Ahern told Gay Byrne that she was "very spiritual" rather than conventionally religious and that her view of God was not as some bearded...
Aoife Kelly Legendary broadcaster Gay Byrne interviews fellow legendary broadcaster Stephen Fry for his 'Meaning of Life' series.
Robin Schiller A NEW exhibition delves into the personal tales of the Irish men and women who went off to join in the Great War efforts.
Paolo Tulio Occasionally, on a Thursday, after I've done my half hour with Sean Moncrieff on Newstalk, I go to visit my pal Harry Crosbie for my tea. Harry likes to keep posh tea, so I get to drink Lapsang Souchong, black with no sugar. Now that's posh!
Colum Kenny RTE screened pornographic images last week, but the media paid more attention to the launch of Ulster Television's new Irish news programme. RTE will talk porn again tomorrow night.
Greg Harkin POLICING the rural roads of Ireland poses a dramatically different challenge to the city streets.
Eilis O'Hanlon Gaybo's first job as a broadcaster was presenting Jazz Corner on Radio Eireann. Now he's come full circle with the "old, ancient, decrepit time warp" - his words - that is Lyric FM's Sunday With Gay Byrne.
