Brian Coyle will for ever be associated with a chair restored for Gay Byrne’s TV show
Tony McMahon, owner of Johnny Fox’s, at the High Court with the restored library chair. Photo: Gerry Mooney
It was a Regency style rosewood library armchair, and as antiques expert Brian Coyle and Late Late Show host Gay Byrne circled it, their admiration was palpable.
“Isn’t that a little beauty?” enthused Gaybo. “It is a beautiful chair, a lovely, comfortable chair.”