Legendary Irish journalist and game show host Henry Kelly dead at 78

Going for Gold, now sadly gone

Whenever I was off school as a wee lad I'd enter the mysterious and unbidden world of daytime television. In Britain in the 1980s and early 1990s, that meant Pebble Mill and Curry on Ice and of course Going for Gold, the exciting European-themed game show where each contestant was from a different European country. It was cheesy and comically propagandi…