Mairead Ronan has revealed that she once thought she’d never have a child or find love again.
The Today FM producer had her son Dara, 9, from a previous marriage but found love again when she met her husband Louis Ronan who she married in 2015.
“I was married before, it didn’t work out. I have Dara from that marriage and he is the light of my life. I never thought I’d have another one,” she said.
Lovely Louis: Mairead thought she’d never marry again until she met hubby Louis | VIPIRELAND.COM
The Fittest Families presenter thought she’d never have another child – but that all changed when her relationship with Louis became more serious.
“In fact, I never even thought I’d meet somebody else. Because you think to yourself ‘Who would want me with a broken marriage at 29 and a child,'” she told Ray D’Arcy on his RTE show.
“But actually, when I met Louis and when we got really serious I thought, I might have another child. I didn’t want to even wish it would happen in case it didn’t but it did and she’s here and I pinch myself every day.
“I’m delighted to get up and feed her at 3am.”
Name game: The presenter revealed it was her son Dara who came up with her daughter’s name | VIPIRELAND.COM
Mairead welcomed her first child with Louis, Eliza, in September this year and admitted it was her son who came up with her unique name.
“I felt all along that it was a girl. I had another name that I loved but I said it to Dara and he said ‘Oh please mum, don’t call the baby that name’, he hated it.
“And I’ve even sworn I won’t say the name out because it’s so awful and he wanted to call the baby Elizabeth. ‘If the baby is a girl we have to call her that’ he said.
“I thought that was a really old fashioned name for Dara to come up with and I said ‘Look Dara, we’re from the Northside, people might call her Betty.’
“I said ‘How about Eliza, we’ll chop it in half.’ It was really Dara who had the idea of it.”
