RTE.ie – 24th April, 2015

Richard will appear as one of the guests on Ryan Tubridy’s Late Late Show on RTÉ One on Friday night. Ryan will also be chatting to Irish acting legend Gabriel Byrne, while Christine Bleakley will tell all about her recent trip on the lovely Wild Atlantic Way. Love/Hate stars Peter Coonan and Killian Scott will be on the show discussing their new movie Get Up and Go.

Richard is in Dublin this weekend to launch his second unisex fragrance, Jack Covent Garden. In a past interview he has said that if he was ever looking for Gabriel Byrne on set, he’d find him among a group of women.

The pair worked together in 2004 when Byrne played Grant’s father in Wah-Wah – a movie based on Grant’s childhood in Swaziland during the last days of the British Empire in Africa in the 1960s.

“He was extraordinary, other than Jude Law who I’ve worked with, if you ever wanted to know where Gabriel was at any point of the day, you’d just need to look where there was a group of women clustered and in the middle of them would be Gabriel Byrne – that tells you about the man’s charisma”.

The Late Late Show is on RTÉ One on Friday at 9:35pm.

For those interested, fans have the opportunity to meet him at Brown Thomas from 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon.

In other news, Richard will be hosting the 2015 International Opera Awards. The event will showcase live performances by singers including Aleksandra Kurzak, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Justina Gringyte, and will be held at the Savoy Theatre on Sunday April 26, at 7pm.