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After over 10 years at RTE, she is a key part of the RTÉ Investigations Unit delving into the black market of weight loss drugs.
But away from her day job, she is a mum-to-two children, whom she shares with her husband.
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The researcher joined RTE back in 2013 after graduating from University College Dublin.
She and her husband Daniel Hanahoe lived together in Dublin 8 for several years, where they purchased a house for €285,000 in 2011.
They described the house as being a “cold dark house with layers of wallpaper and mismatched carpets” when they bought it.
“It had a lean-to out the back and oddly enough the bathroom was located in one of the bedrooms,” she told The Irish Times.
She was pregnant with her first child at the time, so the couple decided to give their house a superficial makeover. This included painting the home and tearing down the wallpaper.
However, four years later, Pamela and Daniel gave the home a total overhaul and gutted the property.
They completed a conversion and extension of the older property and almost doubled its size, with the house going from 76sq m to 135sq m.
“We gutted it, so much so that all we were left with were four walls and no roof,” she shared. “At the time I was in the middle of planning our wedding so it was all go; I would cycle to meet the builders on site at 7 am, then head off to wedding places and finally get over to work.”
She added: “We had mulled over ideas for the four years we had lived here, and what we really wanted was a double fronted house.”
The couple also added a garage and in the end the home also had three double en-suite bedrooms, an additional bathroom downstairs, a large open plan space with a sliding door that led from the kitchen and dining area into the garden.
Pamela and Daniel, with their two sons, later decided to move closer to the couple’s workplaces and put the property up for sale.
The current affairs researcher shared in 2020: “We really love the location, but with two small kids, Daniel’s office in town and my work at the other side of the city we are all going in different directions in the mornings.”
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