“If it wasn’t for Gay Byrne we’d be in the Dark Ages still because he started things, he got people talking about them,” she said, speaking as the sound of funeral hymns drifted out from the church onto the street. The Late Late Show, it was sacred in our house . Gallery Gay Byrne funeral: In pictures VIEW NOWPic of Siobhán Kennedy (56) at Fairview footbridge to watch Gay Byrne funeral cortège. When I heard about it first I really had no investment in him, I said, ‘who is Gay Byrne?’” he said. “What Gay meant to us, it’s part of my childhood, the Toy Show, the Late Late Show,” she said.

Source: The Irish Times November 08, 2019 13:40 UTC