It’s been a difficult week for Patrick Kielty as he said goodbye to his beloved mother Mary Kielty.
Mary, whose husband Jack was shot dead by the Ulster Freedom Fighters in 1988, died peacefully at home in Dundrum, Co Down, last Saturday aged 84. She was buried on Monday.
Opening the show by paying tribute to his mother, Kielty said she never missed a in 50 years, joking, “she loved it so much she kept watching even after I got the gig”.
There had been some questions over whether Kielty might give this week’s show a pass while he grieved her passing, and the presenter seemed to address this directly when he said he knew there was “no way she’d want me to…