Clare McKenna is an accomplished television presenter who has fronted programmes like Ireland AM and Alive and Kicking on Newstalk.
However, another one of her achievements is her 16-year marriage to her husband Johnathan O'Connor.
The couple are both originally from Howth in County Dublin and their relationship had a more unexpected start than people might expect.
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Clare and Johnathan knew each other for a while before the romantic side of their relationship developed.
They started out as friends and even lived five minutes away from each other. He originally dated a friend of Clare’s and that’s how they first met, she shared.
The radio host remembers sharing that story on the television before and it getting a big reaction from people.
“I remember saying that once, I might have been covering for The Elaine Show, and the whole studio made a big gasping noise,” she previously told Evoke.
She continued: "When I said he used to go out with a friend of mine, I mean literally there was a giant gasp!
“I was like, ‘What? C'mon!’ Now I didn't break the girl code. It was five years after they had broken up. I wouldn't, I was always quite funny on those girl codes things, I'd never kiss two boys from the same group.
“It just kind of happened five years after they'd broken up. It blossomed into something else and I'm still very good friends with her, and she's happily married with three boys so we all lived happily ever after. We're okay!”
Clare remembers the moment she acknowledged that her feelings for him had changed. They were at Electric Picnic and Johnathan had gone to get drinks. The Ireland AM star was eager for him to get back and things just progressed from there.
The couple went on to get married on 20 September 2008. Clare looked stunning wearing a Vera Wang dress which featured a dark belt around her waist. Her husband looked great as well in a dark three-piece suit.
They later welcomed two children together, son Flynn who is around 13 years old and daughter Lois who is around 11 years old.
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