Terry Prone: Solid gold Larry the most humble of broadcasters

It might be possible to find someone who didn’t like Larry Gogan, but it would take one hell of a search to identify them. Pick any year out of the half a century he worked for RTE, and you’d find the same Larry. Smiling. Unpompous. And wonderfully UNSURE of himself.

That was the extraordinary thing about him. He knew more about music than it was possible to know, but he was never sure of it. He never laid down the law and was always eager to hear other people’s views. He may have been the most humble individual in the history of broadcasting. He had simply no ‘side’ to him at all.