Evanne Ni Chuillinn: ‘I tried for three years to get pregnant naturally’

Evanne Ní Chuilinn was to host the Olympics in Tokyo, but when she developed hyperemesis in her third pregnancy, she was advised to stay closer to home. As she presents the Paralympics from Dublin, she speaks candidly to Rowena Walsh about the impact of IVF, and the power of sport

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: speaking openly about her IVF experiences.

For Evanne Ni Chuilinn, it wasn’t a hard decision to talk publicly about her fertility treatment. The RTÉ sports broadcaster, who is expecting her third child early next year, believes it would have been “almost dishonest not to let it be known that I did IVF because I tried for three years to get pregnant naturally and I couldn’t.

“It was something we wanted for a long time. I’d see people getting pregnant naturally with absolutely no bother and it would be really hard to take so I didn’t want people to think it had happened naturally when it didn’t. I would have felt a bit under pressure when I heard about people my age getting pregnant without any trouble.”