Ciara Doherty making a fresh start on Ireland AM

Ciara Doherty stepped in as ‘Ireland AM’ co-anchor last autumn just days after her return from honeymoon — and she’s never been happier, she tells Esther McCarthy.

Ciara Doherty has a teenage trauma that she and her family joke about now, but greatly bothered her at the time. As a youngster in her native Letterkenny, she was passionate about musical theatre and dreamed of playing Sandy in a production of Grease — an ambition that was to end in disappointment.