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Shay Healy (born 1943) is an Irish songwriter, broadcaster and journalist. He is best known for his role as host of Nighthawks, a RTÉ Television chat show of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for composing "What's Another Year", Ireland's winning entry in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest.
Shay Healy was raised along with his five siblings in Sandymount in Dublin. His father, Seamus, was a civil servant and part-time stage actor who performed at the Abbey and Olympia theatres. His mother, Máirín Ní Shúilleabháin, was a singer of Irish traditional songs. She also wrote plays and stories and encouraged young Shay's early talent for writing. This led to his first appearance at the age of fifteen on the Irish national radio station, Radió Éireann, reading a self-penned article.
Healy has had a varied career to date, never focusing too intently on any one of his various professional interests. Of his tendency to diversify he has commented: "I know it infuriates some people when you don't pigeonhole yourself, but I don't take on anything that won't stand up to public scrutiny."
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For more go to: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/# The Saturday Night Show | RTÉ One | 9:45pm | Saturday Shay Healy performs his hit song, "What's Another Year", for the first time on The Saturday Night Show
Johnny Logan remembers his old friend and song writer Shay Healy with a poignant performance of 'What's Another Year'. Watch The Late Late Show live and on-demand from anywhere in the world at http://www.rte.ie/player The Late Late Show | Fridays | RTÉ One, 9:35pm Irish Time
"When they start dancing, the shaking stops" - Shay Healy on his health & living with Parkinson's #latelate
RTÉ News announces the death of legendary broadcaster and songwriter Shay Healy, best known internationally for writing Johnny Logan's 1980 Eurovision Song Contest winning entry "What's Another Year". Healy was 78 years old when he died after battling Parkinson's disease for almost two decades. R.I.P. Shay Healy (1943-2021)
ICC Digital brings you a very special concert featuring an all star cast who performed at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre to honour the great Shay Healy, who as well as writing the Eurovision winning song ‘What’s another Year’ is also a gifted ballad singer and TV host. Shay joins his hosts and shrugs off the painful fact that he is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. Artists like Johnny Logan, Finbar Furey, Aengus McNally, Don Mescall, Lisa Lambe all appear to show their respect and admiration for one of Ireland’s most loved artists. We would like to thank the Producer Gerry McColgan for the permission to share this wonderful occasion.
Shay Healy performs 'Stardust'.
Dollymount Strand sung by Shay Healy. Recorded in The Gate Theatre in Dublin in1967.
A tribute to Shay Healy. Lead Vocal & Lyric: Shay Healy Double Bass & Bari Sax: Michael Buckley Backing Vocals: Flo McSweeney: Everything Else: Philip Begley
The First Lady!
Shay Healy (born 1943) is an Irish songwriter, broadcaster and journalist. He is best known for his role as host of Nighthawks, a RTÉ Television chat show of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for composing "What's Another Year", Ireland's winning entry in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest.
Shay Healy was raised along with his five siblings in Sandymount in Dublin. His father, Seamus, was a civil servant and part-time stage actor who performed at the Abbey and Olympia theatres. His mother, Máirín Ní Shúilleabháin, was a singer of Irish traditional songs. She also wrote plays and stories and encouraged young Shay's early talent for writing. This led to his first appearance at the age of fifteen on the Irish national radio station, Radió Éireann, reading a self-penned article.
Healy has had a varied career to date, never focusing too intently on any one of his various professional interests. Of his tendency to diversify he has commented: "I know it infuriates some people when you don't pigeonhole yourself, but I don't take on anything that won't stand up to public scrutiny."
Waking up from the shock, still dying from the night before
So mad I can't speak, but I keep coming back for more
Did you see me there (looking back at you), did you even care?
All the things you said to me, every lie that I believed
I can't erase the memory, I remember
Cut so deep I can't forget, loving you is my regret
I thought that I was over it, but I remember (I remember)
I wanna shut it all out, I wish that this was all a dream (a distant memory)
I try so hard to forget but it keeps coming back to me (it's coming back to me)
I should leave I know (but I keep looking back) but I can't let go
All the things you said to me, every lie that I believed
I can't erase the memory, I remember
Cut so deep I can't forget, loving you is my regret
I thought that I was over it, but I remember (I remember)
I should've known you'd take it all away, shoulda known you'd break my heart again
I should just forget it all but I remember
All the things you said to me, every lie that I believed
I can't erase the memory, I remember
Cut so deep I can't forget, loving you is my regret