So once you know it can happen, you think well, okay I’m terrific one day and then I get a bang out of the blue and I was told to expect that. Kathleen Watkins pictured leaving the Pro Cathedral in Dublin after her husband’s funeral.
The hospital bed was positioned at a window for the best possible view of the former Late Late Show host’s beloved Baily Lighthouse and the wide expanse of Dublin Bay. That house, now rebuilt and lived in by the couple’s daughter Suzy and her family, was where Gay received palliative care last year. The woman who was the first continuity announcer to appear on RTÉ television, back in 1961, looks elegant, as always, and is in enthusiastic spirits as she points out a freshly painted trawler nearby that might make a good backdrop for photos.Īs the whole of Ireland probably knows, Watkins used to live in Howth in a house up on the hill with the late and legendary RTÉ broadcaster Gay Byrne, her husband of more than 50 years. She is about to turn 86 – her birthday falls on October 17th.
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It’s a blustery, bright afternoon and the air is full of the smells of freshly caught fish and the sounds of hungry seagulls. I meet Kathleen Watkins outside Crabby Joe’s seafood restaurant on the pier in Howth. A year on after her husband's death, the 86-year-old author knows everything is going to be alright