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Claire Byrne reveals why she will NEVER be a stay-at-home mum

Claire Byrne has revealed why she will never be a stay-at-home mum, and why she won’t “apologise” for it.

The RTÉ star, who wed long-term love Gerry Scollan in a surprise ceremony alongside their two children Patrick (2) and Jane (22 months) back in June, thinks her children will appreciate the fact that she’s a working mother when they’re older.

“I’m never going to be the type of person who was going to stay at home and that’s it.

“That’s just it. I don’t apologise for that. I think my children will appreciate that when they get older. They’re secure and they are loved but I’m a working mother and that’s how it is,” she told the Irish Independent.

Tiffany Ireland lunch at Patrick Guilbaud Restaurant

Getting real: Claire won’t apologise for not wanting to be a stay-at-home mum | VIPIRELAND.COM

“If you want to leave working mothers out of the workforce, that would be a grave mistake.”

Speaking about returning to work after taking the summer off, the Prime Time host admitted that her son was confused as to why she was returning to the workforce.

“I’ve been off for the summer and my son said to me this morning: ‘What are you doing?’ I said: ‘I have to get ready to go to work.’ And he said: ‘No, you’re going to make sausages for me!’ I thought: ‘OK, it’s Monday morning and I need to get back to work because this child thinks my job is just to make sausages for him.'”

The 41-year-old also revealed that being a working mother makes you appreciate the time you spend with your children even more.

Claire Byrne & Gerry Scollan on Grafton Street

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“You get to the end of the weekend and think: ‘I’m really glad to be going to work.’ And then that brings its own guilt. And then you get to the end of a working day and you’re just so, so delighted to have time with them. I can already see that I’m going to look back on this period and just think ‘that was a blur’,” she said.

Although Claire is still unsure about where to send her children to school, as she want to “get to know” her children first – the presenter admitted that her and husband Gerry’s “very straightforward, Irish rural upbringing” has influenced how they parent their children.

“We want our children to grow up with this honesty, no airs and graces or sense of privilege. I want to give my children every opportunity, but they will know – just as I did – that someone has had to work very hard for it.

“Myself and Gerry were brought up like that – to know damn well how much hard work went into achieving what we have achieved,” she added.

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