Simon Delaney on Lyric FM: 'I'm in the chair Gay Byrne sat in. That isn't lost on me'

As with the history of Irish broadcasting in general, so with the career of Simon Delaney: the totemic figure of Gay Byrne casts a long shadow. Lately in situ as host of the eponymous Sunday Afternoon with… on Lyric FM, some of his earliest memories are being in the kitchen with his mother, “the radio on, listening to Gaybo”.

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