Do you ever get the feeling you’ve been led up the garden path and back again? The questions surrounding Claire Byrne’s garden shed certainly indicate that all is not as it seems. Did the RTÉ presenter really present Claire Byrne Live from her garden shed at her home in Bray, Co Wicklow in March 2020….
Aside from HSE compliant Byrne looking and sounding perfectly healthy, the wood panelling behind her sleekly coiffed bob looked freshly constructed, as if newly built…
… this was the tidiest garden shed of all time. No clutter. No shivering March temperatures. No passing traffic sounds. Why not the spare room in the main house for some comfort and heat? How curious. Time passed. Byrne apparently got Covid again in April 2022… was back in the famous garden shed, not a hair out of place, the picture of health, complying with those HSE regulations with virtue signalling glee.
…Brave Byrne somehow, miraculously, struggled on and managed to broadcast a live prime-time show from her garden shed. For three weeks in a row. What a trooper. That wood panelling though, it was so similar, strikingly close, to Marty Morrissey’s shed in County Clare. What a strange coincidence. Two RTÉ presenters with the same taste and choice in wood and carpentry. What are the chances?…
“Why is this important?” “It doesn’t matter”. Except it matters greatly. It’s unethical for starters. Dangerously unethical. If Byrne was lying about her location during a ‘deadly pandemic’, what else was she lying about? Current Affairs allegedly deals in facts, not fiction… Was the whole thing just theatre? Was Byrne pretending to be in her garden shed while being surrounded by crew and hair and make-up in Montrose? The silence is giving me doubts about this garden shed in Bray. Why not explain in a timely fashion? The long pause indicates something’s up…
Surely all Byrne has to do is take a photo of her garden shed and confirm she was indeed broadcasting from there in March 2020 and April 2022. It’s easy to solve this one. Why not solve it now? The more time passes, the more time to build a shed in the back garden and pretend it was there all along. Why prolong the affair? The public deserves to know either way. It’s of the utmost importance. If she was lying about her location, she is no longer trustworthy and must step down for leading the public up the garden path so to speak…
Aisling O’Loughlin spoke with Gerry O’Neill recently about ‘shedgate’ and more.
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