Michael Lyster in 1984He will be 65 next year and, like it or not, that makes it obligatory for him to retire from his work with RTÉ. And so, without training, autocue or, frankly, time to process nerves, Lyster found himself sitting alongside Fred Cogley, fronting his first TV programme. It would be the following year before the conflict between two masters was finally resolved after a meeting with the then Head of Radio, Michael Carroll. ‘The Sunday Game’ presenter Michael Lyster with his successor Joanne Cantwell at the Lucan Spa Hotel. “I’m not giving up work, I’m not going to live in a hut in Connemara,” he says with a grin.

Source: Irish Independent May 12, 2018 06:22 UTC