RTÉ Guide, reflecting on Gay’s death.‘He was such an important person, he was a friend of mine, he was a mentor and suddenly, we were doing a tribute show to him in the middle of the week.
It was just so desperate.’‘I had to try and grieve and present the show, do my radio show and be a dad; it was intense.’Soon after Gay Byrne’s passing fellow RTÉ legends Marian Finucane, Larry Gogan and Keelin Shanley also died.Speaking at RTÉ’s new season launch, Bryan Dobson shared his feeling about the difficulty of these friends and colleagues passing saying, ‘Four great colleagues in the space of the last 12 months.’‘They leave a big hole in the schedule and they leave a big gap in our hearts as well because they were all friends and people that we.