Claire Malone: Before getting bloods done ahead of IVF, I did a pregnancy test...

Transplanted reluctantly to County Louth just days after becoming a first-time mother, the actor and singer Claire Malone was sure she could never live anywhere but Dublin, where she’d been a busy girl-about-town. She describes the journey to finally feeling she had truly come home

Claire Malone: 'I realised I was in love with a calmer, quieter way of life.'

When we were pregnant with our first child, Maverick, we knew that we couldn’t afford to live in Dublin anymore.

My husband, Paddy, really wanted a baby. I wasn’t massively open to it because I loved my life. I’m a musician, I was on the road all the time, doing gigs. We’d gone to a fertility clinic but they said there was no chance I’d get pregnant. It made me want to prove them wrong!