Comedian and Broadcaster, PJ Gallagher, has revealed the adorable way he met his partner and the mother of his twins, Kelly Doolin, and it involves a pet dog
REPRO FREE: 17/09/2025 PJ Gallagher pictured at the premiere screening of the RTÉ drama The Walsh Sisters in the IFI, Dublin. Picture Andres Poveda
Comedian and Broadcaster PJ Gallagher has revealed the adorable way he met his partner and mother to his twins, Kelly Doolin, and it involves a dog named Chico.
PJ and his partner, Kelly, welcomed twins back in 2023, a boy and a girl named Milo and Stevie, after revealing they had been expecting in March of that year.
The couple originally met back in 2022 through Kelly’s English bull terrier, Chico. Kelly, who is from Boston, has been living in Dublin for almost two decades.
While Kelly was in the city, during a Pride march, she was under a Bohemian Football Club banner with her dog Chico. PJ, who is also a Bohs fan, approached Kelly and Chico and asked, “Can I pet your dog?”
PJ told the Irish Independent: “That was it,” “It was very casual. We were all hanging out for the whole day.”
Six months after that, Kelly would be pregnant with their two children, who would now be hitting toddler age
The broadcaster said when talking about his twins: “People say time flies, but it doesn’t really, does it? It’s hard to even remember what it was like before. Everyone keeps telling me, blink and you’ll miss it. I don’t feel that at all.
“That’s not a bad thing. I definitely see the world differently,” says PJ, who was talking about becoming a first-time father to twins.
Kelly works as a scientist, which PJ can’t wrap his head around: “I have no idea how her job works. She could say it to me a hundred times and I still wouldn’t understand it.”
The family moved to a new area in Dublin last year, Bayside, which can be located on the northside of the city.
Boasting about the area to RSVP, he said: “I only just moved to Bayside and I had no idea that you can walk from Sutton Cross all the way into Portmarnock and not see a public road once.
“There’s a walkway that goes from the park in Baldoyle all the way through the backway, past farms and the big hairy highland cows and right into Portmarnock village. It’s so unknown. People go into Howth and don’t know it’s there. Every excuse I get, I go out that way.
“Because of the new Greenway, if you go to the same place but in the opposite direction, you can cycle from there to the ferry port without seeing a public road. I think it’s amazing.”
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