After almost 37 years, Gay Byrne presented his final broadcast of ‘The Late Late Show’ on 21 May 1999. Over the five decades since it began in 1962, the world’s longest-running chat show has brought many topics deemed taboo by elements of Irish society into a public forum for discussion. On Byrne’s last show U2 members Bono and Larry Mullen surprised him with the gift of a Harley Davidson.
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