IRELAND AM star Muireann O’Connell has said goodbye to renting and hello to her first-ever family pad.
The Limerick host spent the first night in her recently purchased Dublin home yesterday and has claimed “it’s like living in a hotel”.
Muireann and her fiancé – who she got engaged to in 2021 – were on the hunt to buy a house for four years.
However, the search for her forever home wasn’t easy and the host has even previously recalled people crying at viewings.
But after a tirelessly search, the popular presenter finally secured a set of keys to her very own house.
Yesterday, the happy couple were more than delighted to say their final goodbye to the cottage which they had rented in Harold’s Cross since 2017.
After weeks of packing, the Irish host posted a picture of herself holding up a duster in an empty living room, and wrote: “The GOAT of cleaning this house.
“Bye Harold’s Cross, I loved it here.”
In the next snap, the 41-year-old showed off a large blow-up bed which was placed inside a bedroom in the new home.
She joked in her caption: “Hello lover.”
After a day of organising the new pad, Muireann treated herself to a relaxing shower in her newly revamped bathroom.
The TV star snapped a photo of the gorgeous forest green tiles inside the shower and a unique shelf inset.
The host gushed after her pamper evening as she penned: “First shower here and sweet divine Jesus, it was the stuff of dreams.”
She then tagged the company which had renovated the bathroom and said: “You absolute babes @eco_scene.”
The excited star told fans that her new “combi-boiler life” was “elite” and exclaimed: “It’s like living in a hotel.”
TOUGH JOURNEY
Muireann has been open about her struggle to finally find her forever home.
She recently told VIP Magazine: “Look, listen, it’s a housing crisis and that is not lost on me, but for someone who has a good job I’ve been very bad at this house business and the disappointment of going sale agreed on a house and losing out has been real.
“I think during that time, personally for me, the old adage, ‘What’s for you won’t pass you by’ was said a lot, and every time I heard it, I wanted to stick pins in my eyes.”
Muireann then laughed as she added: “I was like, ‘Surely lads, there has to be something for me out there’. Now it just feels like this is where I was meant to be. I’m delighted.”
However, after finding her dream home the TV star revealed it’s a place she’s “very happy in”.
She said: “It’s making me calmer knowing I’m moving towards something that I’ve wanted and worked for, for a very long time. It’s also a place I feel genuinely very happy in, it’s lovely, it’s chill.”
