Larry Masterson, who has died aged 74, was a respected and influential RTÉ producer and social justice campaigner. He had an intuitive understanding of what made for compelling television and a natural affinity with audiences, whom he believed liked to be entertained and challenged.
Masterson was the eldest of three children and grew up on Gardiner Street, in Dublin’s north inner city. His father, Peter, was a carpenter, his mother, Margaret, a homemaker. Life in the inner city at that time was tough, and the poverty he witnessed imbued in him a lifelong sense of obligation towards the less fortunate.
In the late 1970s, Masterson worked with Mike Murphy on the acclaimed Live Mike. The duo brought mischief and a sense of adventure to Ireland in the throes of recession and political instability – gaining a cult following for its candid-camera sketches. They clicked so well that when Murphy left RTÉ in the early 1980s to start his own production company, Masterson went with him.
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