Gay Byrne’s daughter has recalled a “mortifying” moment from her teenage years when her late father worked on RTE Radio.
Suzy and sister Crona appeared on Friday night’s Late Late Show to pay tribute to their dad.
The pair told of their memories of being raised by the TV and radio veteran, who died in 2019.
Suzy told host Ryan Tubridy: “When you’re in that life you know no different, that’s what it is, but in teenage years it is just mortifying.” The Howth woman explained how when she was in secondary school she was desperate to go to Wesley Disco with her friends.
But when she told her dad, he decided to send his radio team out to the event to do a report.
Suzy said: “The following day in school I go in and there is silence, everyone is furious with me.
“It comes out there was this big investigation on the Gay Byrne Hour and everybody was barred [from the disco].” After Gay’s team witnessed underage drinking, the broadcaster did not want Suzy socialising there.
She added: “I remember coming home and slamming the door and saying, ‘What have you done, why?’
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“And he just said, ‘What’s the problem? They did a very good piece. I don’t know why you’re getting upset, there’s no way in hell you’re going near that place’.”
