‘Without Ronan, Boyzone wouldn’t have worked’ – How a thrown-together boyband from Dublin found global fame 30 years ago

In 2018, Boyzone appeared on The Late Late Show with then host Ryan Tubridy. Three of the group, Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy and Mikey Graham, sang, but the fourth remaining member, Shane Lynch, was running late. He had missed the musical number, but joined them for the chat, during which an archive clip was shown of the group as a six-piece act, with Richie Rock, Mark Walton and the late Stephen Gately, dancing through their first appearance on the chat show 25 years earlier in 1993 (Graham was not in the original line-up).