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I’m sorry but this is a bit much
@Ian T Boyle: hardly, seeing as he presented the show for 37 years. I’d have been surprised if it hadn’t happened.
@Ian T Boyle: Elton John has recorded a new version of Candle in the Wind!
@Ian T Boyle: the man was a legend, he deserves this
@Alan McArdle: tribute show, yes, live streaming of his funeral, no
@Ian T Boyle: yep, I’m a fan of Gay but as usual with RTE it’s way over the top
@Ian T Boyle: way over the top. Gombeen nation.
@The Second Last Word: I would like to think his family gave permission and who knows Gaybo may well have given permission
@The Second Last Word: you don’t have to watch.
@Ian T Boyle: not at all. Number 1 irish tv and radio presenter over 6 decades. Totally deserving of this and more
@White Rabbit: What is your fake account going to do about it? Surely you have some intelligence to use?
@Simon Casey: thick
@Ian T Boyle: it’s not abit much he was the greatest chat show host in the world period .
@Gerry Cummins: Shut up
@Gerry Cummins: would this be the same fake accounts that you your self play with while discreetly selling your grand children down the road by the way. I’m am athiest but still say God love you and you’re ilk. BIG PROBLEM are ye gerry.
@Gerry Cummins: vk account. Only the silly forget
@Dave Stewart: ok how’s Annie Lennox doing? Tool!
@Dave Stewart: Lol…are you off your meds? Grand children? Change your doctor or up your dosage…
@Dave Stewart: I think you have me mixed up with someone! Just so you know….cause I don’t use fake accounts….
@Ian T Boyle: l don’t know what age you are but Gay Byrne had been in my life since early 60s. (Much like Larry Gogan). I really feel like a family member has died. May Gaybo rest in peace and sincere condolences to his wife Kathleen and children. He will be deeply missed but NEVER forgotten.
@Chin Feeyin: you can’t avoid the whole thing
National treasure.
Gonna say it one more time “okay okay,We’ll leave it there,Thank you and Goodnight”.
Was going to tune in later until I seen Sir Bob was going to be on. Sir belle*d more like
@Darren Lambe: God, you’re easily offended! Go make a cup of tea while he’s on.
@Seamus Murphy: Don’t drink tea Hamish, thanks though
@Darren Lambe: Dont like Tuesdays?
@Darren Lambe:
Sir Bob is also a national treasure.
RIP Gaybo.
@Tommy Sea: as I said in an earlier comment..RTE out for the night.Why don’t you give the general public a chance instead of all the RTE heads.
Seriously this is getting out of hand. Uncle Gaybo ? I never liked him.
All the sycophantic behaviour was sickening on the radio today. Obviously if he had been sick for a while certain people in the industry knew. Then why didn’t they do a this is your life tribute while he was alive to show how much he meant to “some” people instead of waiting until the man died.
It’s like politicians, they all hate them but when they die they are great fellas altogether, it’s pathetic.
@Kyserkelly: they can do it for free now.
@Kyserkelly: your pathetic.
@Aine O Connor: you beat me to it!
@Aine O Connor: why because I’m not on the gaybo bandwagon? I feel sorry for his family and friends it’s horrible to lose a loved one but the way the public and media go on is cringeful.
@Kyserkelly:
Oh lighten up ,he was a once off , a legend to the vast majority of the population and he gave a lot of ordinary people a voice especially on his Radio Show.
@Aine O Connor: I can have my say as much as any of the people that love all this hype. For me as an individual who is not detached from such a situation currently caring for my own mother who has ovarian cancer at 73. I just think it’s way over the top.
@Kyserkelly: That’s cos you’re a gob#hite.
@Kyserkelly: I agree! Uncle Gaybo me hoop
@JoyMonkey: for having my own views and opinions I’m a gobs***e? Good man
@Kyserkelly: he was the media fpr your parents, your granny, grandad.. He is actually an Irish Icon , a legend in this country’s history… you might get it someday… there are millions of Irish around the world mourning today for their lost youth listening to this man.
@Kyserkelly: He is 1000 times the man you will ever be.
@Kyserkelly: for having the view that other people’s views are not real you are indeed a gobsh!te.
@Paul Whitehead: your more right than you know about that
@Dave O’Keeffe: you really think that all these idiots are for real, it’s typical band wagon behaviour. Laughable. I have no disrespect for the man or his family it’s a tragic time for them. I hope they are given the time to mourn their loss in private. After the circus of course.
@Gerry Cummins: not a legend to me or an icon sorry. Just a poor man who died of a horrible disease. Like many others around the country everyday.
@Kyserkelly: why dont you ask your mother what her opinion is of him?
@Kyserkelly: what’s even sadder are those that decide to go about insulting people for displaying sadness at the loss of a very public person that brought great joy to many. Not interested? Then stay away. To insult people for sharing memories of a man that has just died is pathetic.
@Kyserkelly: I completely agree with you it’s embarrassing. While I don’t doubt some people are genuinely upset it’s gone too far. My granny knew him growing up didn’t like him.
@Irisheyes: yet here you are sharing stories. Just because others focused on the positive stories doesn’t make it embarassing. What’s embarassing is someone being irked by people offering condolences when an 85 year old man that they saw once a week and listenened more frequently for many years died.
@Dave O’Keeffe: I’m not sharing stories I’m making a point that he wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea
Do I pay 160 euros per year for this nonsense? Answers on a postcard please.
@Paul Mc: No point mate.. someone in RTE will win:-(
@Paul Mc: if it’s the only thing you watch, then maybe .
@Paul Mc:
I give up. Do you pay €160 per year for that nonsense?
Hope they do a sort of reeling in the years 2 hour episode of all the highlights of Gaybos Late Late over the years, without the music, just talking. Getting incredibly nostalgic for his 80s – 90s shows growing up.
@Diogenes: More innocent and less cynical times.
@Diogenes: i would suggest the authorities ,the church and RTÉ took advantage of that innocence on many occasions
@Limón Madrugada: I guess, but there where some good moments on the show.
@Diogenes: He owns the rights, you won’t be seeing anything until a deal is done! You only ever see what he wanted you to see. He held bach massive archives of footage..a goldmine..
@Gerry Cummins: he owns the rights to his term on the late late? Would have thought him being an RTÉ employee would have prevented that.
Aw give over. He’d be “delighred and excired” RIP Gaybo
Well I enjoyed the blast from the past . Each to there own
He was well known but let his family give him a private funeral having it broadcast live is wrong
@Karl Charlie: I’m sure when our Stazi service told them they had to have it televised, they capitulated immediately ..ffs, do you not think the family were consulted???
@Karl Charlie: it actually, oddly enough, will probably give them more privacy on the day as it will lower the number of the general public that turn up at the church
Fabulous show that brought back many happy memories watching the Late Late with some who are no longer with us. I think Ryan did a great job and Nell added that little extra spice. RIP Gaybo.
RTÉ Christmas schedule should be sorted now. Imagine the entire back catalogue of Gaybo Late Late Shows, Rose of Tralees and the 1991 Telethon should get an airing. And a bonus replay of the 2016 Mrs Brown Christmas Special, of course.
@Eoin Jaypee: unfortunately he owns the copyright, you wont see them for years.. that’s why he did hos own select shows… it’s a goldmine!
He wasn’t royalty!! Way OTT
@G.M Lockjoy: He was Irish Royalty ! Get back in your box!
Cue sinead o connor throwing herself on the coffin….
@Martin Smith: Add Michael D quoting poetry.
This is ridiculous….. another example of a waste of public money….
@Gigi Power: I mean, as much as I dislike rte and feel the tv license is used poorly…. I don’t see how this particular edition of the show is somehow highlighted as a waste of money?
I highly doubt a single one of those guests is being paid to appear and I feel a special tribute episode is a fine send off to the man who had such a profound impact on the entire country over the decades.
As for the funeral…. Its practically a state funeral in all but name. The impact of Gaybo on the public was massive and honestly should be given the same level of respect of a former President or Taoiseachs death.
@Patrick Carr: are you joking all these guests are leetches
@Gigi Power:
it’s all about the advertising.
Hundreds of thousands will tune in.
Happy days for RTÉ.
@Gigi Power: I could think of worse wastes. He is an Irish Icon. You are obviously too young to understand his impact. A shame on your education that you don’t know what he did!
@Chin Feeyin: Advertising! Pffft! I very much doubt they’ll interrupt the live streaming of the funeral with ad breaks. That’s a whole load of nonsense right there.
@TM B: what exactly is a ‘leetch ‘?
Whats the odds someone will say at the funeral service that theres one for everybody in the audience
@Brendan Devlin: that would be at the communion
Imagine how many times RTE will repeat this show.
@John: what show?
Is the house private on Friday morning?
Like him or not he was a national institution. We grew up with him. Yes he had flaws, don’t we all. He was imperfectly perfect. He opened up dialogue after dialogue. He changed perspectives. He didn’t shy away from controversy. His Toy Shows were second to none. Pat and Ryan haven’t had the same rapport with the Toy Show. Arthur Murphy’s Mailbag was kept in business with him. Rest in peace Uncle Gaybo. Your suffering is over. You’ll never be replaced.
Lets have a drinking game where when Joe Duffy mentions he was in Trinity, we drink….it wont last long we will all be gicked out of our minds in minutes! What a sycophant !
I was glued to it ..loved it
Self indulgent RTE always whoyou know or who you KNEW – Ireland is changing thankfully x
@Siobhán McKenna: pity nell mccafferky didn’t get her say
RTÉ will dine out on Gay Byrne’s death for the next 12 months.
@In my opinion: hopefully, tons of stuff unseen in decades, interviews with the best.. all held copy rite by Gaybo..
At the funeral there will be communion for everybody in the audience
Roll it there Collette: surprised I have not heard that!
Gay was an decent genuine man but many of the politicians and presidents sincere in their words of condolences their and their parties decisions in office would have Gay ranting at their insincerity as they have done immense damage to the ordinary people of Ireland as many of those on the show tonight are affluent and out of touch individuals – they are leeches
@TM B: did you get James Joyce to write that or is the comma / full stop on your typewriter not working?
@TM B: PARKLIFE!
@Bob Murray: funniest comment of the day Bob.
@sinead foley-coleman: Rory’s was funnier
@TM B: he wasn’t decent, he never paid a bill in his love except for dodgy investments
He was a great actor….
@popeye Doyle: Nail on the head
Tonight’s show reminded me of what I loved about the old Late Late: Gritty unpredictability and the audience voicing their opinions on phone and in studio.
Not the sterile safe audience can speak but on the terms of the presenter programme that’s on today. The old show always seemed current unlike now.
I’ll miss you Gay, especially your Sunday afternoon swing. It was the time I’d be driving back from the Wicklow walk with the dogs. Such a loss.
Just listen to Brian Keenans description of how he was interviewed by Gay Byrne describes Gaybo to perfection.
I’m don’t agree with all this “he changed Ireland for the better”.
What’s better about it?
Murder, rape, drugs. suicide, social isolation, homeless.
He lived off taking easy shots at ‘Catholic’ Ireland which is now every idiots scapegoat. He rarely if ever got across the other side of the story. That ‘Catholic’ Ireland did more to modernise the nation than any other organisation. Men and women who worked for nothing are now safely pilloried.
Self indulgent RTE act / my dad was
Was curious / threw a pillow
To
The tv when he realized it’s who you know or who you KNEW – Ireland is changing thankfully x
Self indulgent RTE always who you know or who you KNEW – Ireland is changing thankfully x
Self indulgent RTE alsways whoyou know or who you KNEW – Ireland is changing thankfully x
@Siobhán McKenna: anything else to add Siobhan or sleeping it off?
@Siobhán McKenna: Someone obviously has a big fat greasy chip on their shoulder.
RIP to the man. That stephen fry interview really summed up the man for me.
Wishing all the begrudgers here a Happy & Holy Christmas.
It will be a great chance for the political classes to gather and have a show of strength, as long as the Elite stick together in times of hardship there all be okay. Gay was a descent man who worked hard and was more like us than the bunch of Montrose mouthpiece’s that followed. Virtually every guest on this show I dispise as they are a representation of all that’s wrong with this country. I wonder how many of this people Gay would give the time of day to if he were still alive?
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