RTE broadcaster Gerry Ryan has passed away aged 53.
He anchored a daily morning chat show on RTE's radio station 2FM and presented numerous tv programmes including Ryan Confidential and Operation Transformation.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen today led tributes to the popular broadcaster.
Mr Cowen said the popular Gerry Ryan Show on 2FM was compulsive listening for hundreds of thousands of people.
"As a broadcaster, Gerry Ryan was both informed and intelligent, forthright and articulate," he said.
"As a man, he was generous, famously irreverent and witty."
"He will be hugely missed by all those who had the good fortune to know him."
Fellow RTE broadcaster and long-time friend Joe Duffy choked back tears live on air as he recalled the "bold schoolboy" he first met in 1979 at Trinity College Dublin.
"He was the best company you could ever have," he said. "He was bold in every sense of the meaning of that word.
"He was brave in his broadcasting, he was brave in his life, he lived his life to the full."
He is survived by his five children and his wife, Morah, from whom he was separated.
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Report this message By pauline on 30th Jul 2010i listened to gerry every morning goin to work
the journey has never been the same since,only the good die young,heven truely have called back an angel.my taughts r with his family. RIP GERRY
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Report this message By Veronica - Kildare on 24th Jul 2010
Gerry, the mornings are still so empty without your voice to brighten up our day. We have yet to move on and take the step of tuning into 2fm during your 9 to 12 slot. Your shoes will be hard to fill but I know from your place in heaven you will be cheering on your replacement. Your consistent positive and enouraging voice still plays in my memory and its this memory that will ensure I will tune in again soon and in your memory move on...you will always be missed
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Report this message By angela barry on 13th Jul 2010so sad that you are gone too soon,,,,far too soon,,,stay safe in the arms of the angels,,,, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Report this message By Rachel Wynne on 10th Jul 2010Gerry you are sadly missed, radio will never be the same without you. Rest In Peace
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