Gardai called to the door of one of Ireland's most iconic TV personalities to tell him he was in danger.
The scary threats were revealed by Gay Byrne's wife Kathleen who said cops turned up at their North Dublin home as he regularly got threats from people claiming to be in the IRA over his career.
Gay has previously spoken about getting letters saying "we'll blow you asunder" after refusing to shake Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adam's hand after the IRA ceasefire in 1994.
The former Late Late Show host's wife Kathleen Watkins has now spoken about gardai calling to their Howth home and saying they heard "something was going to happen."
"I remember the police arrived on a number of occasions because they’d heard something was going to happen." she told The Irish Sun.
"There were times when they were threats and all sorts of things.
"They did get information that (Gay was under threat) and they arrived at the house and they asked could they come in and look around the house.
"I knew one of them [the gardai], we called him Big Aidan, he was a huge man.
"He arrived at the door with a whole group of (gardai and I told him, 'There's no one here, we are perfectly safe and perfectly fine.'
"But he said, 'I'd love to come in and see around the house and make sure you are OK and that no one is holding you' — so he did that and it was fine.
"I'd have to say that the Gardai were magnificent."
Gay previously said he never took the threats seriously as "people who are going to kill you don't write to you beforehand, they just do it."
