The 2FM presenter and her husband Charlie recently welcomed their second child together, a boy named Jack, and decided now is the time to move on from Stoneybatter
RTE presenter Blathnaid Treacy(Image: Instagram/blathnaidt)
Blathnaid Treacy says she and her family are “bursting at the seams” in their Stoneybatter home as they prepare to move to Wicklow.
The RTÉ star and her husband, musician Charlie Moon, are parents to daughter Nancy and son Jack.
Following Jack’s arrival last winter, the couple decided it was time to up sticks and move to a bigger home closer to their families.
Blathnaid loved living in Stoneybatter, but feels it is the right time to move.
She said: “We’re bursting at the seams in Stoneybatter.
“The house was great and it’s perfect for a young couple.
“We had a ball there in our 20s and early 30s but now we don’t get to enjoy all the pubs and social life there with the kids.
“All our family are in Wicklow so it makes sense to move to where our support network is. Go where the babysitters are!”
The 2FM host says she and Charlie are “in the swing of it now” with two young children and she feels more confident in her abilities as a mum.
“Everyone tells you it’s going to be full on, and it is, but Jack is the best child,” Blathnaid told the RTÉ Guide.
“With your second, you kind of know what you’re doing and you’ve so much more confidence in yourself and you’re not as on edge.
“But it’s like he’s always been here, and I’ve finally got a child that looks like me because Nancy is the head off Charlie.”
Blathnaid returned to her weekend show on 2FM three months after welcoming Jack, but noted that her working situation is different to a lot of other mums.
“Me going back after three months isn’t like someone who has to go back to a five-day-week office job,” she explained.
“I work pretty much part-time, which works really well for our family.
“I work weekends so when I’m in work, Charlie is off, and during the week, I’m with the kids.”
Blathnaid recently hosted her last TV broadcast of the Lotto before it moved from RTÉ to National Lottery headquarters.
She added: “I got to do my month of Lotto in February, so that was lovely, to do my last on-screen hosting of it.
“We just voice it now in Lottery HQ in town – I’ve been doing it for ten years so it was really nice to be back in time for the last ones.”
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