Gerry Ryan - He enriched all our lives

The sudden death yesterday of Gerry Ryan, at the relatively early age of 53, came as a profound shock, and the Irish Examiner offers its condolences to his family and many friends.

He was a brave, pioneering force in Irish radio and one of its great success stories.

His three-hour daily programme, The Gerry Ryan Show, which went on air in 1988, was probably the driving force in helping to establish 2FM after the station’s launch in 1979 and overcome its shaky existence during much of the 1980s.