Binchy appeared on "The Late Late Show" on Saturday 20 March (based on chronology this would have been 1982) in connection with the publication of the "Dublin 4" short story collection. "Then the conversation broadened and Gay Byrne asked about some aspects of my work, the royal weddings", Binchy later recalled in a letter she sent to the programme. "I said how much I had liked Charles's wedding and hated Anne's - about covering the election in Ireland and how I had been one of the very few journalists watching FitzGerald and Haughey on the night of the Great Debate..."