The friendship between Mike Murphy and the late Gay Byrne was most definitely something special, as the pair had worked together for years in broadcasting.
Both men were fond of having a laugh and a joke, however, one of Mike’s pranks came at the expense of Gay and the reaction was somewhat unexpected and completely hilarious.
Back in 1982, during one of Mike’s candid sketches on his RTÉ show The Live Mike, Gaybo caught the attention of an overenthusiastic ‘French man’, and it didn’t go down too well.
The clip shows Mike, in disguise, coming up to Gay in Trinity College as he is filming a piece to camera. However, as Gaybo makes his address to the camera, this rather annoying man won’t allow him to go through with his piece, and it is very
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