Comedian Jason Byrne: ‘When you divorce, it’s really hard, and it’s like constantly being punched in the face and you don’t want to do anything’

Jason Byrne says that ‘mad’ things happen to him all the time; that colourful people find him wherever he goes. On his way to this interview in an Ashbourne hotel, he arrives slightly late, on account of having to direct an elderly driver who had taken a wrong turn and stopped him on the road to ask for directions.