Room To Improve star Dermot Bannon says his colleagues were “shocked and angered” when they learned of evil killer architect Graham Dwyer’s double life.
Dermot returns to our screens with a new RTE One series of Room To Improve this Sunday. He said while he didn’t personally know Dwyer, he knew colleagues who knew him and said everyone was shocked when they discovered he had committed a heinous crime that shocked Ireland.
Dwyer is appealing his 2015 conviction after he was found guilty of murdering vulnerable care worker Elaine O’Hara, 36, in 2012. His lawyers are arguing that the retention of mobile phone data used in his trial is an “opportunistic form of mass surveillance” that transforms phones into tracking devices that can reveal a detailed picture of every aspect of a person’s life.
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Speaking exclusively to Irish Mirror, the popular TV host said: “I never have [met him], which is unusual as we’re the same age.
“I know people who know him and who worked with him. I know people who worked in the same practice as him – yes, it is a small world. Like everyone kind of knew Graham Dwyer. I never came across him, never met him but for a lot of people they were really shocked. It was amazing the double life that he lived.
“That was what I heard – that there were people who were friends of his who were genuinely shocked and angered by the second life he was leading.”
Last September, the Irish Mirror revealed that sadistic killer Dwyer is still registered as an architect in Ireland. It was also revealed by us that Dwyer was still registered with the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland.
Dermot, 49, is set for a busy 2023 as he continues filming the popular hit show, as well as renovating a house in Rathgar, Dublin, for families of Cystic Fibrosis patients in need of a home away from home during long hospital stays.
The first episode of Room To Improve will see engaged couple Conor and Amy, renovate a derelict farmhouse in Tullamore in Offaly. Dermot said: “The first episode is gorgeous. Conor inherited his granny’s old farmhouse and what really makes it is the setting.
“It’s down the end of a lane, you go through the trees... it was gorgeous and even though there were no windows in it, the place was in rack and ruin. My job was not to destroy that feeling.”
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