RIP Shay Healy.

[westcorklad]

Former RTE presenter and Eurovision winning songwriter Shay Healy has died at the age of 78.
Healy wrote What’s Another Year, sung by Johnny Logan, which was the winning entry at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980.
Originally from Sandymount in Dublin, he started his career as a trainee cameraman in RTÉ before going on to become a presenter with the broadcaster.
In 1992, an interview with former Minister for Justice Sean Doherty about phone-tapping on his late-night talk show Nighthawks eventually led to the resignation of Charles Haughey as Taoiseach. He left RTÉ in 1995 and founded his own production company, before being diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease in 2004.

RIP.

[oldfool]

One of a kind. Always seemed willing to stir up that stuffy organisation inRTE

[Brooksey86]

On the rare occasion we had a chance of winning. Rip shay

[westcorklad]

On the rare occasion we had a chance of winning. Rip shay

It wasn`t that rare back in those times. Ireland had a pretty good record in Eurovision in most years from the mid 1960s right up to the late 1990s.

[BarryD]

Former RTE presenter and Eurovision winning songwriter Shay Healy has died at the age of 78.
Healy wrote What’s Another Year, sung by Johnny Logan, which was the winning entry at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980.
Originally from Sandymount in Dublin, he started his career as a trainee cameraman in RTÉ before going on to become a presenter with the broadcaster.
In 1992, an interview with former Minister for Justice Sean Doherty about phone-tapping on his late-night talk show Nighthawks eventually led to the resignation of Charles Haughey as Taoiseach. He left RTÉ in 1995 and founded his own production company, before being diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease in 2004.

RIP.

Suppose we should sprinkle in a bit of Johnny visual for balance....