Newstalk host Ciara Kelly says she 'regrets' not taking husband's surname after marrying
Newstalk host Ciara Kelly has said she 'regrets' not taking her husband's surname after they got married.
'I do have some regrets about having no name connection to my children,' she explained on this morning's breakfast show.
'Should they have been double-barrelled? I don't know.
'Or should I have given them Kelly as their second name? I don't know is the answer to that,' she continued.
Ciara Kelly. Photo: Evan Doherty
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Kelly said if her husband had a 'cooler name' she 'might have been slightly more tempted.'
'I think there is fashion at play here; when I was young and getting married, none of my pals in college took their husbands' names.
'Most of my pals from school who didn't go to college did.
'So, there was different cohorts of people doing different things, and I think that's still true today,' she said.
'I also do think, as someone who didn't take their husband's name and I now have a different name to all four of my children, that I didn't give it enough thought.
'I didn't want to double barrel my name, I always thought that was for gits - that's what I actually thought.'
Her co-host Shane Coleman said he would have been 'a little bit disappointed' if his wife had taken his surname.
'I married Ev Conroy, I didn't marry Ev Coleman,' he said.
'We get texts from people saying, 'Oh, it's really difficult travelling', it isn't.
'Or that it's 'really confusing in school', I think people are capable of differentiating.
'There's no issue.'
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It comes following the publication of an Irish Times opinion piece lamenting whether or not women should change their surname after getting married.
According to Pew Research Centre, 79% of women in opposite sex marriages took their husbands' surname after they wed. While just 5% of men in opposite sex marriages took their wives' surname.
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