Ryan Tubridy beganFriday evening’s Late Late Show with another moving opening that left viewers at home in tears. The broadcaster paid tribute to the Irish lives lost during the global health pandemic, highlighting just four of the 1,014 souls who lost their lives to the deadly virus up to the time of going on air.
Putting a face to the numbers, Ryan told the stories of four ‘treasured’ Late Late Show viewers no longer with us today during the opening, having made personal phone calls to their families on Thursday.
Describing their ‘raw, unquenchable grief,’ the broadcaster urged that these losses should put into perspective why we stay at home. ‘I had four conversations yesterday afternoon, private conversations, which have banished any