It's like living in a hotel', says Ireland AM host Muireann O'Connell after first night in new pad is ‘stuff of dreams'
The
Dublin
home yesterday and has claimed "it's like living in a hotel".
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Muireann O'Connell purchased her first home back in May
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Muireann said goodbye to her rented cottage yesterday
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Muireann spent the first night in her family home yesterday
for four years.
However, the
But after a tirelessly search, the popular presenter finally secured a set of keys to her very own house.
Yesterday, the happy couple were more than delighted to say their final goodbye to the cottage which they had rented in Harold's Cross since 2017.
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After weeks of packing, the Irish host posted a picture of herself holding up a duster in an empty living room, and wrote: "The GOAT of cleaning this house.
"Bye Harold's Cross, I loved it here."
In the
next
snap, the 41-year-old showed off a large blow-up bed which was placed inside a bedroom in the new home.
She joked in her caption: "Hello lover."
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After a day of organising the new pad, Muireann treated herself to a relaxing shower in her newly revamped bathroom.
The
TV
star
snapped a photo of the gorgeous forest green tiles inside the shower and a unique shelf inset.
'This won't be for everyone', says Muireann O'Connell as she steps out on air in unusual look
The host gushed after her pamper evening as she penned: "First shower here and sweet divine Jesus, it was the stuff of dreams."
She then tagged the company which had renovated the bathroom and said: "You absolute babes @eco_scene."
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The excited star told fans that her new "combi-boiler life" was "elite" and exclaimed: "It's like living in a hotel."
TOUGH JOURNEY
Muireann has been
She recently told
housing crisis
and that is not lost on me, but for someone who has a good job I've been very bad at this house
business
and the disappointment of going sale agreed on a house and losing out has been real.
"I think during that time, personally for me, the old adage, 'What's for you won't pass you by' was said a lot, and every time I heard it, I wanted to stick pins in my eyes."
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Muireann then laughed as she added: "I was like, 'Surely lads, there has to be something for me out there'. Now it just feels like this is where I was meant to be. I'm delighted."
However, after finding her dream home the TV star revealed it's a place she's "very happy in".
She said: "It's making me calmer knowing I'm moving towards something that I've wanted and worked for, for a very long time. It's also a place I feel genuinely very happy in, it's lovely, it's chill."
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Muireann swooned over her newly revamped bathroom
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