{"id":226721,"date":"2026-01-04T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:30:08","slug":"gaybo-chairgate-and-the-auctioneer-the-row-that-started-on-the-late-late-show-and-ended-in-the-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226721\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaybo, Chairgate and the auctioneer: the row that started on \u2018The Late Late Show\u2019 and ended in the High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Brian Coyle will for ever be associated with a chair restored for Gay Byrne\u2019s TV show\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony McMahon, owner of Johnny Fox's, at the High Court with the restored library chair. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3897bde6-3481-4d98-9955-df407fea4f01.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tony McMahon, owner of Johnny Fox&#8217;s, at the High Court with the restored library chair. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIsn\u2019t that a little beauty?\u201d enthused Gaybo. \u201cIt is a beautiful chair, a lovely, comfortable chair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Coyle will for ever be associated with a chair restored for Gay Byrne\u2019s TV show Tony McMahon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9924,93,61,60,6085,7539],"class_list":["post-226721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dublin-courts","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rte","tag-the-late-late-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}