Todd Andrews Andrews jnr. aka comedian David McSavage. In May 2009, Ryan Tubridy was appointed by RTÉ to succeed Pat Kenny as host of the television station's long-running chat show "The Late Late Show", whose first host (and producer) was Gay Byrne until Kenny took over in 1999. Byrne, in his 1989 memoirs "The Time of My Life" and subsequently in an RTÉ documentary in 2005, related how Andrews, then chairman of the RTÉ Authority, phoned the Director-General of RTÉ Tim McCourt and ordered him to fire "that fucker Byrne"; however McCourt refused to dismiss Byrne. Todd Andrews Christopher Stephen Andrews (6
The Ray D'Arcy Show The Ray D'Arcy Show The Ray D'Arcy Show is Ray D'Arcy's weekday afternoon radio show on Irish radio channel RTÉ Radio 1. Originally a weekday mid-morning show broadcast from 09:00–12:00 midday on Today FM until 2014, it competed with RTÉ 2fm's Gerry Ryan (and his successor Ryan Tubridy), RTÉ Radio 1's Pat Kenny (and his successor Sean O'Rourke) and Newstalk's Tom Dunne (and his successor Pat Kenny). During the 2000s, D'Arcy won three consecutive "Best National DJ" Meteor Awards while presenting the morning show. The production team of Jenny Kelly, Will Hanafin and Mairead Farrell featured prominently on that show,