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Gary Byrne

Gary Byrne

Member of the Indiana State Senate

Jun 22, 2026

30:21
portrayed.Someone who felt compelled to go to Gardai in 2016 when the Cooke and Philip Kearns story emerged was Gary Byrne.
30:30
I literally spent every hour there.
30:33
There was a great buzz around the station then because it was, phones were hopping, the ads were coming in, money was coming in.
30:43
Gary worked part-time in Radio Dublin, including through October 1986, the month Philip vanished.
30:51
In relation to Philip Kearns, I was in the station.
30:54
I was on air on that, around all that time.
30:56
I was around the station all the time.
30:58
I can categorically say that I never saw that boy in Radio Dublin, ever.
30:21
portrayed.Someone who felt compelled to go to Gardai in 2016 when the Cooke and Philip Kearns story emerged was Gary Byrne.
30:30
I literally spent every hour there.
30:33
There was a great buzz around the station then because it was, phones were hopping, the ads were coming in, money was coming in.
30:43
Gary worked part-time in Radio Dublin, including through October 1986, the month Philip vanished.
30:51
In relation to Philip Kearns, I was in the station.
30:54
I was on air on that, around all that time.
30:56
I was around the station all the time.
30:58
I can categorically say that I never saw that boy in Radio Dublin, ever.
7:29
Um, the idea that you have people that would be able to get a room in the hotel and walk down with a gun and then, you know, walk right up to the perimeter 50 yards away from the room where many people could've been slaughtered is insane to me.
7:41
Yeah, you're 100% right, Sean.
7:43
And like I said before, it's one of the reasons I wrote Secrets of the Secret Service.
7:48
What happened on Saturday night, there should've been...
7:50
And I've been to, I've been to the...
7:52
In the United, you know, inside the Secret Service, we refer to it as the Hinckley Hotel, 'cause that's where Reagan was almost assassinated.
7:59
And, and so the hotel actually built an underground garage so you can bring the president in, in, um, after the Reagan attempted assassination.
11:46
The amount of security and the number of guns in my face, it's breathtaking, and that's not happening here.

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