Ciara Doherty has admitted she’s loving having a more “regular life” since leaving Ireland AM.
The TV presenter recently quit the show to host Virgin Media’s The Tonight Show alongside Matt Cooper.
Speaking to RSVP Live, Ciara said: “Anybody who works on a breakfast programme will tell you just how tough the hours are.”
“I think everybody has this impression that it is fantastic because you finish up early and then you have the whole afternoon off. If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard it a thousand times.”
“Nobody understands that you walk around like a zombie for most of that afternoon and you very much live your life by the clock. It’s only people who have worked breakfast at some stage in their career really understand what it’s like.”
Ciara’s new job will allow her to spend more time with her daughter Renee, and her husband Richard Stern.
“It was so lovely on Sunday evening to look at the clock at five o’clock and not have to do anything, because normally I would be preparing myself for the week ahead and getting to bed early,” she explained.
“It was lovely to just not have that pressure, and it’s nice to live a more regular life. What I lose out in the afternoons and evenings I get back in the mornings.”
Although she’s excited about her new role, Ciara admitted she’ll miss her Ireland AM colleagues – especially Karen Koster.
“Karen and I really hit it off. We became great pals and we had great fun together and we were incredibly supportive of each other,” she said.
“We were both working similar hours, both had young kids at home, we would both come in sleep deprived on occasion, and it was great having someone there who knew what that was like!”
“There were no secrets between us, we were very honest all the time about things that were going on behind the scenes that people at home aren’t aware of. We were really close and it was like having a sister at work,” she added.
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