Bláthnaid Treacy is on cloud nine.
She announced that she is expecting her second child with her husband, Charlie Moon. The latest JNLR figures revealed that her 2FM weekend morning show was the most listened-to show on the station.
We caught up with her on the Platinum VIP Style Awards red carpet…
Bláthnaid, congratulations on baby number two!
Yes, baby number two. It’s very exciting yeah, thrilled, over the moon. I’m very excited.
You already have baby Nancy, which is such a gorgeous name…
Thank you, yeah coming up with another one it’s proving quite difficult, so that’s the next thing. We keep putting lists together and Charlie keeps agreeing on one thing and I’m like I don’t know about that, I don’t know and back and forth on so many names, it’s hard.
Does Nancy understand she’s going to be a big sister?
She hasn’t a clue, no she hasn’t a notion. She’s not even two yet so she doesn’t really know. She’ll be two and four months by the time the next one arrives so hopefully she’ll kind of understand what’s going on but yeah, it’s interesting.
It must have been hard to hide the pregnancy when you’re doing telly like the Lotto!
Oh yeah listen I was like I’m going to have to tell everybody because I didn’t tell people until I was 20 weeks the last time, so I was able to keep the secret a bit longer, so it was just so obvious. I was like I’m going to have to tell people, or they’ll just know so I thought, take control of the narrative, tell them yourself. So yeah.
Tell us about your new 2FM Show!
Well, it’s about a year old now. So my show is 9am-12pm on Saturday and Sunday. It’s great, it’s the most listened-to show on the whole station. We got the JNLR figures and it’s got the highest listenership, I just couldn’t believe it, so the listeners just kind of keep going up and up. It’s just amazing but it’s also a testament to the incredible team that I’ve been working with. It’s brilliant, I love it so much and our listeners are class, and I feel like we’ve created a lovely little community on a Saturday and a Sunday morning. They’re really important to me and the show is really important to me, so I’m just thrilled that people are responding to the show.
And we love that you use your cúpla focal!
Yeah, it’s really important to drop in the cúpla focal. I also think with Kneecap and their incredible film and just everything that they’re doing there’s a resurgence of the Irish language. It’s just so nice, it’s nice to see that people are falling back in love with the language. What I like to do is try and make it a little bit accessible and not to alienate anybody and not make it too difficult. So yeah, it’s nice and people respond to it really well.
Check out all our winners at this year’s Platinum VIP Style Awards here. Take a look at the red carpet style here.
