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Gay Byrne RIP

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    #452
    thesultan
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    BrianBoru00 wrote: »
    Absolute ****e talk - The Annie Murphy will be held up as the worst. That was more down to the audience members contributing. But if that was a negative - just off the top of my head
    - the lovely paternal way he dealt with Sinead O Connor on the Late late show a few years ago after his retirement.
    - The brilliance with how he recovered live on air with the lady who's daughter had just died
    - The topics he tackled head on
    - He was a brilliant moderator - My favourite exchange :
    "Gays" were being discussed and someone made a comment about "men who are besotted with other mens back passages" to which Gaybo said "I suppose to reposte to that is what about me who are besotted with womens front passages?.."
    - So many brilliant interviews and conversations


    What a legend

    Any link to the woman who daughter died.?


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    #453
    Raconteuse
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    Letwin_Larry wrote: »
    actually you are wrong.
    he wasn't anti anything. he was no revolutionary. he was very much part of the establishment.
    Even though the weekly television show he hosted for over a quarter of a century shone a light on the Irish establishment?


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    #454
    [Deleted User]
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    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Tubridy mentioned on his radio show that Michael D Higgins and Bob Geldof will be on tonight.
    Add Eamon Dunphy to that list.

    Geldof. A man so conceited, arrogant and odious that he turned the Brexit referendum by campaigning for the other side.


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    #455
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Even though the weekly television show he hosted for over a quarter of a century shone a light on the Irish establishment?

    A state broadcaster by its very definition cannot be anti-establishment. He may have been allowed the odd subversion/controversy, especially when ratings and ad revenues are involved,but was always operating well within the constraints of the era.


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    #456
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Geldof. A man so conceited, arrogant and odious that he turned the Brexit referendum by campaigning for the other side.

    The only comparison I can think of is if Nigel Farage came over here campaigning for the Gay Marriage Referendum. He could have actually turned the result.


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    #457
    Raconteuse
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    Yeah he was no mad radical but I think it's a bit disingenuous to say he was as establishment as the rest of them.


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    #458
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    The cynic in me is thinking the day of the funeral would be a perfect day to sneak in some unpopular policy or government announcement or such like... I'm warning ye government the skibereen Eagle has its eye on you '!'


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    #459
    blinding
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Geldof. A man so conceited, arrogant and odious that he turned the Brexit referendum by campaigning for the other side.
    A German good for Brexit ~ Who’d have thunk it !;);)


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    #460
    Lollipops23
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    thesultan wrote: »
    Any link to the woman who daughter died.?

    Her family asked RTE to remove the link as it was really distressing for them to have to listen to the call over and over.


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    #461
    Letwin_Larry
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Even though the weekly television show he hosted for over a quarter of a century shone a light on the Irish establishment?

    he was a comsumate professional, and like all great media types he had an eye for a good story/scandal.
    irish society was a blocked cesspit brimming with such scandals. all he had to do was lift the lid and let the public take a whiff.


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    #462
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    Letwin_Larry wrote: »
    he was a comsumate professional, and like all great media types he had an eye for a good story/scandal.
    irish society was a blocked cesspit brimming with such scandals. all he had to do was lift the lid and let the public take a whiff.

    In such a surpressed society,ubdoubtedly far more was buried than revealed on the show, just the right level of contrived controversy to boost ratings whilst not pissing off his employers and Official Ireland too much.


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    #463
    nkl12xtw5goz70
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Yeah he was no mad radical but I think it's a bit disingenuous to say he was as establishment as the rest of them.

    Byrne knew better than to take an anti-establishment stance that probably would have cost him his job in the Catholic Ireland of yore.

    Instead, he let the advocates of tradition and change go at each other, opening up space for debate where previously there had been none. The hard-core traditionalists invariably came off looking autocratic and foolish.

    Byrne wasn't especially remarkable for the stances he took on anything, but more for his willingness to moderate intense national conversations during a period of social transformation.


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    #464
    Colmurph75
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    A consummate professional- he will be missed.


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    #465
    FrancieBrady
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    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    Her family asked RTE to remove the link as it was really distressing for them to have to listen to the call over and over.

    I seen it yesterday somewhere. Although it was only a partial clip. Didn't know that they had asked. Fair play, it was distressing even as somebody not affected by it.


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    #466
    partyguinness
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    Oh great.

    We can look forward to bitter "Sir Bob" Geldof's tired old diatribe talking about how repressed Ireland is and sounding like it is still 1950 and how great he was to get out and join the UK Establishment.

    Pity he didn't stick around to contribute more to Irish society instead of slagging it off at every given opportunity.

    While I am loathe to use the expression but the term 'West Brit' was invented with Geldof in mind.


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    #467
    Edgware
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    Colmurph75 wrote: »
    A consummate professional- he will be missed.

    "he will be missed"

    He will be missed by family and friends. He stopped doing the Late Late Show in 1999, when it was on its last legs anyway
    Anything he has done since his retirement from the show was just to top up the pension. None of it was of any great use. We wont miss his efforts on Who wants to be a millionaire etc.


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    ToBeFrank123
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    Edgware wrote: »
    "he will be missed"

    He will be missed by family and friends. He stopped doing the Late Late Show in 1999, when it was on its last legs anyway
    Anything he has done since his retirement from the show was just to top up the pension. None of it was of any great use. We wont miss his efforts on Who wants to be a millionaire etc.

    Again, wrong on most counts.

    Did you not win a LLS postal quiz or something and hold it against him ever since?


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    #469
    Invisibleman
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    chrissb8 wrote: »
    He did coke like alot of people do. Some of them aren't addicts or let it get in the way of their work. Why define him by that. It's like calling Jimi Hendrix a junkie depsite his talent or calling Hemmingway a drunk. People do drugs it doesn't mean they are that drug and defined only by that.

    he was a junkie and an absolute hypocrite(gerry ryan), if you can't accept the truth fair enough.
    Give it a few days there's dirt to come out on "uncle" gaybo too


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    #470
    Beechwoodspark
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    RIP to him and condolences

    But this fawning over him by absolute odious obnoxious chancers like terry prone Ray Darcy tubridy joe duffy bob geldof lou welsh boyzone clowns various conmen politicians and many others

    would absolutely turn your stomach.


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    #471
    [Deleted User]
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    Invisibleman wrote: »
    Give it a few days there's dirt to come out on "uncle" gaybo too

    I don't think so. By all accounts he was quite a boring, almost robotic, personality. I think the worst we will hear is that he could be aloof and unfriendly at times. Boo-hoo.


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    #472
    Invisibleman
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I don't think so. By all accounts he was quite a boring, almost robotic, personality. I think the worst we will hear is that he could be aloof and unfriendly at times. Boo-hoo.

    oh there is trust me, give it a few days.


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    #473
    Arghus
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    safetyboy wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBYqNj7Rrh4


    That time pop will eat itself :pac: wrecked the show

    I remember watching that as a kid. Gas stuff and not a bit of clapping from the audience!

    Seem to remember that he interviewed the klf about them burning a million pounds. Young me thought, what's the big deal? It's only paper?


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    #474
    Naggdefy
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    Invisibleman wrote: »
    oh there is trust me, give it a few days.

    What is there? You sound like you know something major already..


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    #475
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,409 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Invisible sounds like he has the inside knowledge on something?


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    #476
    riclad
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    He talked about many subjects on the late late show that were controversial, he had many famous guests ,actors ,comedian,s ,singers .
    he was a major influence on irish culture ,in the 70,s and 80,s .
    His radio show was very entertaining ,he could talk to anyone about any subject.
    He was not afraid to criticise the church .
    i don,t think the late late show matters now , apart from the xmas toy show .
    Young people now may not remember him, in a time of 100,s of tv channels , and youtube .streaming tv, video on demand .
    He was at the center of the conversation as ireland slowly changed
    into a more modern open society .In the 70,s and 80,s ,irish people mostly had acess to 6 or 7 channels, bbc,itv, c4,rte ,
    so the late late show was watched by most adults .
    it got great ratings .
    I can,t think of anyone who was more important to irish media and culture in the 70,s and 80,s .


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    #477
    Cork Boy 53
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    Invisibleman wrote: »
    it'll be interesting when the dirt comes out in a couple of days, just like the drug addict Gerry Ryan
    Invisibleman wrote: »
    he was a junkie and an absolute hypocrite(gerry ryan), if you can't accept the truth fair enough.
    Give it a few days there's dirt to come out on "uncle" gaybo too
    Invisibleman wrote: »
    oh there is trust me, give it a few days.

    3 posts from you stating the same thing. Do you want to give us the benefit of your enlightened knowledge or are you just stirring ****e? I have a good idea which one it is.


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    #478
    ToBeFrank123
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    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    3 posts from you stating the same thing. Do you want to give us the benefit of your enlightened knowledge or are you just stirring ****e? I have a good idea which one it is.

    He's just attention seeking. He has nothing specific to say, so just stirring the pot. Sad really.


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    #479
    Naggdefy
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    He had a fling with Sinead O'Connor :D

    I found the interaction a bit strange, not father/daughter.

    Then again, she was a beauty then and we all could be smitten.


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    #480
    Invisibleman
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    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    3 posts from you stating the same thing. Do you want to give us the benefit of your enlightened knowledge or are you just stirring ****e? I have a good idea which one it is.

    Actually i was just responding to questions, but i'm not surprised a cork man is sticking up for uncle gaybo with his British allegiancies.
    But fine i won't say it again if that makes you happy.


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    #481
    Cork Boy 53
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    Invisibleman wrote: »
    Actually i was just responding to questions, but i'm not surprised a cork man is sticking up for uncle gaybo with his British allegiancies.
    But fine i won't say it again if that makes you happy.

    What would make me happy would be for you to back up your comments instead of just deflecting with irrelevant bull****.


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