The Monday night current affairs television series "Claire Byrne Live" on 9 March 2020 was filmed with a reduced studio audience as an effort at social distancing; seven days later, on 16 March 2020, there was no studio audience at all and presenter Claire Byrne conducted interviews with guests—such as Minister for Health Simon Harris—live from her garden shed, as she had been advised to self-isolate. On 23 March, ahead of her second week broadcasting to the nation from her shed, Byrne confirmed she had tested positive for COVID-19; the result had come as a shock to her as she had not had a temperature and assumed she had caught the common cold—though, as the week went on, her symptoms worsened, she had some difficulty breathing and experienced tiredness. Byrne's diagnosis had been hinted at two days earlier when a then unnamed RTÉ staff member was reported to be COVID-19 positive. On 6 April, Byrne returned to filming "Claire Byrne Live" in the RTÉ 1 studio. On 15 March 2020, "The Irish Times" announced that its building on Tara Street in Dublin would close immediately as a staff member had just been confirmed to have tested COVID-19 positive, though the paper remained in print and its website continued to be updated. On Wednesday 18 March, Newstalk radio presenter and former medical doctor Ciara Kelly announced that she had tested COVID-19 positive, though she was no longer practising, had taken precautions and had not been abroad. She had continued to present the Monday and Tuesday editions of her programme, "Lunchtime Live", from the hot press (a type of Irish cupboard) in her home, and Mick Heaney of "The Irish Times" described her Wednesday programme as "a compelling show, remarkably so considering it was hosted by an ill woman sitting in an airing cupboard". Also on 20 March, Ryan Tubridy received a live televised "mock" COVID-19 test on "The Late Late Show". Five days later, Tubridy did not turn up for his morning radio show, citing a "persistent cough"; Oliver Callan deputised. Two days later, RTÉ announced that Miriam O'Callaghan would present that evening's edition of "The Late Late Show", the first time in the programme's 58-year history that the role fell to a woman, the first time since his father died in 2013 that Tubridy missed a programme and the first time since Frank Hall's short-lived stint in the mid-1960s that a regular host had missed two programmes overall.