Muireann O'Connell would consider moving back to Limerick to buy a house amid housing crisis
The Ireland AM favourite also opened up about presenting Ireland's long running breakfast television show as it celebrates 25 years of broadcasting live on air
by Mikie O'Loughlin · RSVP LiveMuireann O'Connell would consider moving back to Limerick to buy a house due to the housing crisis in Dublin.
The Ireland AM presenter and her fiancé have been trying to get on the property ladder in the capital for the last three years, but they keep getting outbid by other buyers.
She is a proud Limerick woman and she has spoken openly about how hard it is to buy a house in Ireland these days.
Muireann told RSVP Live: "At this stage we are thinking about buying a house there and travelling up, yes. It’s been three years now. The other day I thought we might get this house and I woke up the following day and €30,000 had been put onto their offer.
"Every house I’ve bid on over the last three years has gone up by at least €100,000 from what the actual offer was. I don’t have that money.
"There are certain houses where I’ll walk in and see people with their parents and I’ll walk straight back out. There’s no point doing that to myself.
"I’m bad at most things, but I am particularly bad at buying houses [jokes]. The amount of people who say to me, even strangers, 'Still no house?'."
If she was working in RTÉ would she be able to afford a house, just looking at the salary bands there? Muireann said: "I’m sure there are plenty of people in RTÉ who don’t have houses either.
"That’s what they’re paid in RTÉ and that’s none of my business. Fair play to anyone who gets whatever they can.
"We should be looking at the wealth gap in the world and the billionaires who are getting richer and richer every single day."
Ireland AM is celebrating 25 years on air, and Muireann loves her job and what she gets to do on screen every morning. For her, being on live TV is not terrifying in any way.
She said: "No, it’s a privilege. This is not a hard job, there are people out there who are going into wards for 12 or 14 hours doing the hardest jobs.
"I get to come in here, put on a dress I don’t own and feel fancy for three hours. I also get to chat to people who enrich my life and make it better.
"They give me experience I will never have and give me a rounded view of the world. It’s an utter privilege, I love it."
Ireland AM’s 25th anniversary show airs, Friday 20th September from 7am – 10am on Virgin Media One and Virgin Media Play.
Join RSVP Live's WhatsApp community to get celebrity news and our top stories