Oliver Callan says he is in a good place and enjoying married life with John Lannin.
The RTE presenter tied the knot with his husband in 2022 after ten years together.
Things are going well for Oliver both personally and professionally, between married life, his RTE Radio 1 Show and Callan's Kicks specials.
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Lifting the lid on life with John, the comedian said: "We'd been together for 10 years, but the wedding got delayed because of the pandemic.
"Isn't the line that you should have someone to love, something to do and something to look forward to? I have all of that but probably too much to do."
Oliver and John are not parents, and he admits he's not sure if fatherhood is something they would consider.
"That's a conversation I'd have to have with John and, to be honest, I don't really know how to answer that," he said.
But the Monaghan native says helping to raise his sister Aine, who is 11 years younger than him, as a teenager gave him a glimpse of what that could be like.
"I now say to my husband that I got some semblance of being a dad from that time. I remember the thrill of telling Aine what movies to watch or what books she should read, believing then that I could shape a child with my interests, but eventually, they just rebel to become their own person," he added.
Being young and gay in rural Ireland growing up wasn't always easy, but Oliver said he was "brilliant at hiding".
He told the RTE Guide: "I was the funny guy in class, doing funny voices, which was a type of protection.
"I wasn't a target, blending into the background. Maybe it was just a deliberate tactic, but it was also something that was inside, just bursting to get out."
Oliver publicly spoke about being gay for the first time in 2011.
"Coming out interviews were quite rare back then. Donal Og Cusack did it in 2009, but there was a big build-up to it with his book's serialization, whereas I did it in one big atomic bomb style live on television," he said.
"Now if I'd waited five years, I might have ended up as Taoiseach as in Leo Varadkar's interview with Miriam O'Callaghan," he joked, before adding: "If Leo did that interview now, I don't think he'd become Taoiseach because we seem to be facing into right-wing headwinds."
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