Book extract: Jack Lynch's TV broadcast that broke the mould

In an extract from ‘I’m Glad You Asked Me That: The Political Years’, Terry Prone recalls her husband Tom Savage helping Jack Lynch pull off a media masterstroke in 1977

Tom Savage's decision to film Jack Lynch's piece to camera outdoors in his car helped enliven that party political broadcast — and had the spinoff effect of making Charles Haughey's contribution look as wooden and drab as such clips tended to be. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive

Although we were not part of Bunny Carr’s new company, Carr Communications, we were in constant touch with him. He had become godfather to our son Anton when we eventually got around to having the latter baptised.

My husband Tom and I were making a precarious living as freelance journalists, but Bunny frequently called on us to fill gaps, in that first year, which was fun and always unexpected. Tom was never fazed by the unexpected.