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26th May 2023
04:13pm BST

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Ryan continued: "I’ll say later on: I did my best, and I was surrounded by great people and all those teams year in and year out, it meant a lot to me. They work very hard, and I’m grateful to them too.
"I think I know pretty much everything that’s happening. They just said that ‘There’s a bit of business here, and a bit of business there,’ which is code for: ‘We’re not telling you."
"So, we’ll see – there’s gonna be some lovely reunions; we’re gonna meet some people that I’ve admired and loved to meet down through the years.
"We had our international fun with Ed Sheeran and Michael Bublé and Hillary Clinton and Noel Gallagher in recent weeks, so I think we’re going to shop local this week and bring in all our friends that we’ve known and have a sort of… kitchen party, does that make sense? We’re all the good stuff happens.”
Ryan took over the show in 2009 from Pat Kenny, who fronted the show for 10 years from 1999, with Gay Byrne originally hosting it prior, starting in 1962.