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Katie Gallagher

Who is on RTE Late Late Show with Ryan Tubridy? Derry Girls star leads line-up with country legends

Derry Girls star Jamie Lee O Donnell leads this week’s Late Late Show.

Shobsy, Trudi Lalor, Gloria, Jimmy Buckley, Robert Mizzell, Declan Nerney, Professor Luke O'Neill and Mary Mc Aleese have also been announced for the Friday night line-up.

Actress Jamie Lee O'Donnell joins Ryan off the back of the return of her character Michelle in Derry Girls, season three, which premiered this week.

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Dublin singer Shobsy is live in-studio for a very special performance at the end of a very moving week.

Friends of the show from the world of Irish Country Music including Trudi Lalor, Gloria, Jimmy Buckley, Robert Mizzell and Declan Nerney will be on to mark the anniversary of Big Tom.

Cathy Wheatley will be on the show to tell the tale of evacuating her Ukrainian surrogate from war.

Ivana Holub is the surrogate mother to Cathy’s twins and now Ivana, along with her three children are living with Cathy, Cathy's husband, and the twins.

Immunologist Professor Luke O'Neill, just home from volunteering in Slovakia to deliver humanitarian supplies to Ukraine, will join host Ryan Tubridy as will Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese who first spoke about Ukraine on The Late Late Show just over a month ago.

There will also be a special performance by young Ukrainian dancer Taya Shvets.

Taya fled Ukraine with her mother and her brother when war broke out in their homeland.

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