It has been revealed that RTE will be naming a studio after the late Gerry Ryan in honour of his 10thanniversary.
The acclaimed broadcaster died suddenly on April 30th2010 at the age of 53.
A decade on, station bosses plan to remember him by renaming one of the 2FM studios, ‘The Gerry Ryan Studio’.
While this will be special for everyone who works there, it will that bit more significant for Gerry’s daughter Lottie.
Lottie, who followed in her father’s broadcasting footsteps, spoke about his passing earlier this week.
Chatting to Brian Dowling on his podcast Death Becomes Him, she said, “ My whole life changed in an instant.
“I obviously wasn’t expecting the news when I got it, so I just felt like my whole world suddenly shattered. It was just horrific.”
She continued, “Thankfully I was with some of my family when I got the news, but the whole day is a big blur in my head, you know, in terms of what happened and the emotion around it.
“It was just awful. The worst moment you can think of.”
Lottie revealed that being in the public eye made their grief and that traumatic time even harder to deal with.
“I felt people were expecting me to always look upset or be in grief,” she said.
“I could be having a day where I woke up and maybe it wasn’t the first thing on my mind.
“I’d walk into a shop and there would be awful things written on a newspaper about him, and it would throw me back again. I found that very difficult for a long time.”
In honour of Gerry’s 10th anniversary RTE aired a special documentary surrounding his life and legacy.
The response online was overwhelming, as Twitter was inundated with people sharing their opinions on the show and their memories of the late presenter.