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The Late Late Show Tribute to Gay Byrne, Tuesday, RTÉ One, 9:35pm

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Ryan Tubridy has promised that tonight's Late Late Show tribute to Gay Byrne will be "really special".

The veteran broadcaster passed away on Monday, November 4, after a long illness.

Tubridy saluted his "great friend" and "magnificent mentor" on his RTÉ Radio 1 programme on Tuesday morning ahead of tonight's show. He described the Late Late tribute programme as "a happy wake".

Speaking to The Today Show's Brenda Donohue ahead of the show, Tubridy said: "Gay was a once off, so tonight is a once off.

"It makes perfect sense that we gather the troops, gather the family, the friends and to say a final thank you. Tonight isn't going to be maudlin, or morose, or mawkish, it's going to be upbeat, it's going to be fun."

The 90-minute live special on RTÉ One at 9:35pm will feature contributions from Gay Byrne's friends and colleagues across the world of entertainment and beyond, including Bob Geldof, Andrea Corr, Pat Kenny, John Sheahan and Mary McAleese.

Also appearing will be President Michael D Higgins, Joe Duffy, Sharon Shannon, John Sheahan, Finbar Furey, Tommy Tiernan, Pat Shortt, Eamon Dunphy, Twink and Mary Black.

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Nerdlingr

Why don't they have old clips of gay with the music playing over it?

FrancieBrady

Cheers Gaybo.

Yamanoto

They should've given it 2 weeks lead in time and put on a Late Late worthy of the man.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Sinéad O’Connor was so stunning. :eek: I always forget that, the same way I tend to forget that Kurt Cobain was a fine lookin’ man.

jojofizzio

Where’s Sinead O’Connor?she does a fab version of this....

[Deleted User]

Mary needs a visit from the tuner.

KaneToad

Mary Coughlan sounds terrible. Particularly since she's a great singer

donkeykong5

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Should a former president of Ireland be wearing such a 'dress', brings the role in to disrepute.

Why. The present president wears one when he feels like a change now and again.

Andrew00

Who's cutting onions bruv

Skid X

Gay genuinely was interested in people

I met him and he was lovely, really wanted to ask questions and hear answers about who I was and what I was doing.

Different class, he was one of a kind

Sir Oxman

adox wrote: »

Thought they missed a trick not showing more clips from the Late Late archives.

I realize people want to pay their tributes but they have an absolute goldmine in the archives they could have used, which would have been so much more of a tribute and celebration of the man than most of the waffle.

They should be able to knock up a couple of years out of the highlights and phone ins and panels they had on the old LLS.
Stick them on Saturday nights in place of Ray Darcy's awful show.
Ratings winner.

Sittingpretty

Yamanoto wrote: »

They should've given it 2 weeks lead in time and put on a Late Late worthy of the man.

Exactly. Some of them
Don’t even know the words.

Neeson

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Why don't they have old clips with the music playing over it?

Because the elite in rte want Kathleen to have something to look at after the funeral and see how much they adored her hubby Gay.

tylercheribini

adox wrote: »

Thought they missed a trick not showing more clips from the Late Late archives.

I realize people want to pay their tributes but they have an absolute goldmine in the archives they could have used, which would have been so much more of a tribute and celebration of the man than most of the waffle.

Plenty of time for that, this is RTE-still-repeating-reelin- in-the-years-20-years-later.

Zamboni

adox wrote: »

Thought they missed a trick not showing more clips from the Late Late archives.

I realize people want to pay their tributes but they have an absolute goldmine in the archives they could have used, which would have been so much more of a tribute and celebration of the man than most of the waffle.

Dee Forbes will be using all that wall to wall over the Xmas period. And Brendan Grace footage.
No money for anything else.

elperello

Great show, great man.

(I'll read back on the thread when it comes out in paperback)

Itssoeasy

I’ve enjoyed this show. I mean as long as RTE continues there will never ever be another gay Byrne or anyone like him on tv and radio. He was a once in a generation. He was like Ireland’s answer to Johnny Carson in America. He was a connection for people to times/people who are longer here.

RabbleRouser2k

Ah Ryan... you didn't talk to Nell McCafferty...

What the hell man? She might have played the role of antagonist to Gaybo, but there was genuine respect between them.

To not speak to her-you're disrespecting Gay Byrne, and her too.