Comedian Jason Byrne has revealed that he and his family haven’t been able to get together with his loved ones following his dad’s death.
Jason recently revealed that his beloved father Paddy passed away on February 24th, a mere few weeks before Ireland’s lockdown restrictions to tackle the pandemic were put in place.
Yesterday, the funnyman appeared on Virgin Media’s The Six O’Clock Show, telling hosts Martin and Muireann about his experience with grief during this uncertain time.
“As you know and people who are listening in that when you go through a parent or anybody close to you who passed away, you are very busy with the funeral, you’re busy with relatives, you get busy with all that stuff,” he said.
“And then it’s not till all that goes and calms down that you kind of go and grieve. But what happened was that this Covid thing happened so we haven’t even been able to get together as a family on our own and grieve.”
Jason split from his wife in 2018, but reveals Brenda and the kids live close by, which helps.
“I’m not too far away from my children and my ex-wife they’re only up the road so it’s not too bad.
“I’m obviously on the phone to my mam and my sisters all the time too.”
The successful comic also revealed that the Byrne family are dealing with the loss the only way the know how – through humour.
He explained: “It’s just so sad to lose your dad as you know, but the thing is, the way the Irish deal with everything is through humour.
“I was talking to my mam on the phone and she was saying, ‘Thank god dad wasn’t around for this because the moaning would have been unbelievable!'”
Our thoughts are with Jason and his family at this time.