Never Have I Ever with Claire Byrne
Jun 17, 2026 · 45 min · 12 segments
Never Have I Ever is the podcast where Claire Byrne explores things she's never done by talking to people who have. This week, she steps up to the front of the room. Claire's been to plenty of…
Karen DempseyGuest
Claire ByrneHostNo entities detected.
[laughs] When people are saying, "I don't remember her name," they can say, "Actually, it's the bald one," and you find me.
I don't want it to become a capitalist transactional piece where you pay somebody money, and they say some fancy words, and off they go.
It'd be really important to do it as Claire, who you were as a child, rather than Claire Byrne, the broadcaster.
Every second weekend, someone's off to a hotel in Clare, or they're standing in the freezing cold in Wicklow, afraid to say that they're freezing cold because it really is worth it for the photographs.
If you're Irish, chances are you've probably spent a fair chunk of your life both at weddings and at funerals.
Like, despite all the ceremonies I have been at, nobody has ever asked me to officiate at one of them.
You know, like, in an unofficial capacity, like, none of my friends have ever gone, "Surely Claire would be good at that." I'm not taking it personally, but almost.
I got married myself in the Dublin registry office 10 years ago exactly this year.
And after all of these years of attending weddings and funerals and christenings and so on, never have I ever stood at the front and led one.
[laughs] When people are saying, "I don't remember her name," they can say, "Actually, it's the bald one," and you find me.
I don't want it to become a capitalist transactional piece where you pay somebody money, and they say some fancy words, and off they go.
It'd be really important to do it as Claire, who you were as a child, rather than Claire Byrne, the broadcaster.
Every second weekend, someone's off to a hotel in Clare, or they're standing in the freezing cold in Wicklow, afraid to say that they're freezing cold because it really is worth it for the photographs.
If you're Irish, chances are you've probably spent a fair chunk of your life both at weddings and at funerals.
Like, despite all the ceremonies I have been at, nobody has ever asked me to officiate at one of them.
You know, like, in an unofficial capacity, like, none of my friends have ever gone, "Surely Claire would be good at that." I'm not taking it personally, but almost.
I got married myself in the Dublin registry office 10 years ago exactly this year.
And after all of these years of attending weddings and funerals and christenings and so on, never have I ever stood at the front and led one.
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