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    sound check for his show but he declined the offer. From 1973 until 1998, Byrne presented The Gay Byrne Hour – later The Gay Byrne Show when it expanded...
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    The Gay Byrne Show (previously The Gay Byrne Hour and also known as The GB Show) was an Irish radio programme, which ran from 1973 until 1998. The programme...
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  • television presenter Gabriel Byrne was always abbreviated as "Gay", as in the title of his radio show The Gay Byrne Show. Gay Allison (born 1953), Canadian...
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    condemned The Late Late Show as "immoral" and Gay Byrne as a promoter of "filth". The condemnation stemmed from a small item on the show in which Byrne was...
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  • Ireland's most popular television show, The Late Late Show, was coming to an end, when host Gay Byrne read a headline from the next day's Sunday Tribune newspaper:...
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    Radio 1's The Gay Byrne Show. Duffy was named 11th most influential person of 2009 by Village. Deegan, Gordon (31 January 2023). "Agent to the stars Noel...
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  • Evelyn O'Rourke (category The Gerry Ryan Show)
    the current Arts and Media Correspondent for RTÉ News since February 2024. O'Rourke joined RTÉ in 1998 as a researcher on The Gay Byrne Show and The Arts...
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  • Dermot Morgan (category Critics of the Catholic Church)
    with Gay Byrne on The Late Late Show in 1996 that he was writing a screenplay titled Miracle of the Magyars, based on a real-life incident in the 1950s...
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  • the original RTÉ Radio station was renamed RTÉ Radio 1. In 1973, The Gay Byrne Hour began, becoming The Gay Byrne Show in 1979. This anchored the station's...
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  • Moone Boy (category Television shows set in the Republic of Ireland)
    Ireland as it was used as the theme music for The Gay Byrne Show, a long-running and immensely popular morning radio show on RTÉ Radio 1. Background...
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    forumforus.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2010. Ciarán Byrne (27 February 2010). "The late Eugene Lambert – neighbour...
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    Pat Kenny (redirect from Pat the plank)
    Gay Byrne retired from presenting The Late Late Show in 1999. Kenny was announced as Byrne's replacement on 24 May 1999. He was in Israel for the 1999...
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    Jacob's Awards (category Television in the Republic of Ireland)
    Gay Byrne (1979), and Brendan Gleeson (1992). The record for the most awards won is held by Gay Byrne, who was honoured six times between 1963 and 1981...
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    Charlie Bird (category Neurological disease deaths in the Republic of Ireland)
    attended the funeral of Peter Graham of Saor Éire who was assassinated on 25 October 1971 in an internecine dispute. A photograph of the funeral shows Ali...
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    St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge (category Defunct schools in the Republic of Ireland)
    carried through until the 1980s. Christine Buckley was interviewed on The Gay Byrne Show on 8 November 1992 as she was looking for her parents. Media interest...
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    television film interview show, presented by Michael Dwyer, called Freeze Frame. It had a 3-year run. Former RTÉ Radio 1 broadcaster Gay Byrne praised Jennings'...
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  • RTÉ News: One O'Clock (category Irish television news shows)
    RTÉ News: One O'Clock is the afternoon news programme broadcast each afternoon on Irish television channel RTÉ One at 1:00pm. The bulletin airs until 1:25pm...
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  • hosted his own show Shay Byrne's Friday Lounge on Friday evening's between 2006 and 2011. It was announced on 4 March 2011, that Byrne would replace Maxi...
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  • programme in the 1970s, it was a replacement for Gay Byrne's similar programme.[citation needed] The Today with Pat Kenny format featured current affairs...
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  • RTÉ News: Six One (category Irish television news shows)
    evening news programme broadcast on the Irish television channel RTÉ One and simulcast on the RTÉ News channel at 6:01pm. The bulletin airs until 7pm on Monday...
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  • Aoife Kavanagh and Rachael English. The programme is also presented by Claire Byrne, Gavin Jennings and Fran McNulty. The current presenters are Aine Lawlor...
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  • Prime Time (Irish TV programme) (category Irish television news shows)
    & Claire Byrne Live There was a Monday edition of the programme. Vincent Browne 2000–2001 Richard Crowley (originally reported for the show in his role...
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  • Marian Finucane (category Alumni of the University of Galway)
    and the Garda investigation programme Crimeline. On Gay Byrne's retirement in 1999, Finucane took over his mid-morning radio slot to present The Marian...
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  • Five Seven Live (category Irish talk radio shows)
    1 between 17:00–19:00, between 1997 and 2006, the final edition being broadcast on 1 September 2006. The programme was usually presented in its later years...
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  • in RTÉ in the 1970s. In 1985 he won a Jacob's Award for producing The Gay Byrne Show. For most of his time in RTÉ, Caden was a member of the Workers' Party...
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    Sport show won him a Jacob's Award in 1992. He was also the Parade Grand Marshal for the 2007 St Patrick's Festival, having been given the honour by the chairman...
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  • programmes with RTÉ. He chaired the audience-participation political programme Questions and Answers on RTÉ One for 21 years. He is the father of comedian and...
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  • made his first appearances as Dinny Byrne in the RTÉ soap Bracken. Later the Byrne character would feature in the long-running RTÉ soap Glenroe. Lynch...
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  • on RTÉ Radio 1's Five Seven Live and RTÉ 2fm's The Gerry Ryan Show before producing The Gay Byrne Show. In 1997 he defected to Today FM precursor Radio...
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  • RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock (category Irish television news shows)
    RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock is the nightly news programme broadcast each night on Irish television channel RTÉ One at 9:00pm. The bulletin airs until 9:25pm...
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