Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne (born 5 August 1934; affectionately known as "Gaybo" or "Uncle Gaybo") is a veteran Irish presenter of radio and television. His most notable role was first host of The Late Late Show over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999. His time working in Britain with Granada Television saw him become the first person to introduce The Beatles on screen.
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- Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne (born 5 August 1934; affectionately known as "Gaybo" or "Uncle Gaybo") is a veteran Irish presenter of radio and television. His most notable role was first host of The Late Late Show over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999. His time working in Britain with Granada Television saw him become the first person to introduce The Beatles on screen. From 1973 until 1998, Byrne presented The Gay Byrne Hour—later The Gay Byrne Show when it expanded to two hours—on RTÉ Radio 1 each weekday morning. Since "retiring" from his long-running radio and television shows Byrne has presented several other shows, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Big Class Reunion, The Gay Byrne Music Show, Make 'Em Laugh, Gaybo's Grumpy Men and The Meaning of Life on RTÉ One and Sunday Serenade/Sunday with Gay Byrne on RTÉ lyric fm. In 2006 he was elected Chairman of Ireland's Road Safety Authority. Since retiring he has become the "Elder Lemon of Irish broadcasting". Byrne is credited with being a catalyst in the transformation of Irish society since the 1960s. He has broken several Irish social taboos by discussing topics like contraception, homosexuality, and abortion and is considered "a catalyst for social change". When Barry Galvin, then as Cork's state solicitor, appeared on The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne in 1992 to speak of the increasing problems Ireland was experiencing with the illegal drug trade, he was subsequently given the post of first ever head of the important Criminal Assets Bureau. Byrne is, alongside Terry Wogan, one of Ireland's two most notable broadcasters, but also described as "the most famous Irish broadcaster in history", lauded by the media as "the man who changed Ireland". According to the Irish Examiner, Gay Byrne has "had more influence on changing life in this country than any of the political leaders", including Taoisigh W. T. Cosgrave, Éamon de Valera and John A. Costello as well as Ruairi O Bradaigh, John Charles McQuaid, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland for over 30 years. A 1998 poll found Byrne level with notorious former Taoiseach Charles Haughey as the most hated public figure in Ireland but Byrne was also named the most popular public figure in the same poll. In 2010 The Irish Times said Byrne was "unquestionably the most influential radio and television man in the history of the Irish State".
- Tiedosto:Gay Byrne. JPG Gay Byrne Gabriel Mary Byrne, tunnetuin nimellä Gay Byrne on irlantilainen tv-juontaja. Hän juonsi Late Late Show'ta vuodesta 1962 vuoteen 1999 yhtä vuotta lukuun ottamatta. Hän juonsi myös suosittua radio-ohjelmaa RTÉ:llä. Byrneä pidetään yhtenä tärkeimmistä irlantilaisen yhteiskunnan muokkaajista 1960-luvulta lähtien, sillä hän rikkoi useita tabuja tuodessaan julkiseen keskusteluun aiheita kuten ehkäisy, abortti ja maastamuutto.
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- Gay Byrne speaking into a microphone in 2008
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- “Anonymous, private people to whom something extraordinary had happened whether it was falling out of an aeroplane or escaping from a burning building or a sinking ship and who had the capacity to tell the story and that was always a sure-fire recipe for arresting people's attention.”
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- Host of The Rose of Tralee
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- Tiedosto:Gay Byrne. JPG Gay Byrne Gabriel Mary Byrne, tunnetuin nimellä Gay Byrne on irlantilainen tv-juontaja. Hän juonsi Late Late Show'ta vuodesta 1962 vuoteen 1999 yhtä vuotta lukuun ottamatta. Hän juonsi myös suosittua radio-ohjelmaa RTÉ:llä. Byrneä pidetään yhtenä tärkeimmistä irlantilaisen yhteiskunnan muokkaajista 1960-luvulta lähtien, sillä hän rikkoi useita tabuja tuodessaan julkiseen keskusteluun aiheita kuten ehkäisy, abortti ja maastamuutto.
- Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne (born 5 August 1934; affectionately known as "Gaybo" or "Uncle Gaybo") is a veteran Irish presenter of radio and television. His most notable role was first host of The Late Late Show over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999. His time working in Britain with Granada Television saw him become the first person to introduce The Beatles on screen.
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