'Very easy to love': Tributes paid to Eurovision winning songwriter Shay Healy

Johnny Logan pictured with Shay Healy at Dublin's Sugar Club where friends and family gathered to raise a glass to the broadcaster Shay Healy, his songs and his TV shows. Picture Andres Poveda

Tributes have been paid to Shay Healy, the former RTÉ broadcaster and Eurovision winning songwriter, who has died at the age of 78.

Originally from Sandymount in Dublin, he joined RTÉ in 1963 as a trainee cameraman and enjoyed a long career presenting programmes such as Twenty Minutes With..., Ballad Sheet and Hoot'nany.