IRISH presenter Kathryn Thomas has revealed her biggest insecurity is worrying about her job.
The Carlow native has worked in Irish TV and radio for over 25 years, starting on RTE travel show No Frontiers.
She joined Dublin’s Q102 as the host of their brand new breakfast show, ‘The Morning Show with Kathryn Thomas’ earlier this year in February.
The mum-of-two presents her show every weekday morning from 7am-10am and it’s the first time she’s had a some-what ‘normal’ routine.
When asked what her biggest insecurity is, Kathryn told the Irish Independent: “Worrying about my job. I have worked as a freelancer all my life.
“This is the first time I have had a Monday-to-Friday job in 46 years. I think people just assume that when you’re on the TV, you’re loaded.
“I want to be able to provide for my family the way my parents did for me.
“The media landscape is changing at a rate of knots, and you have to be able to back yourself. I’m at an age where I have faith in my abilities.”
And while life in the showbiz world isn’t all glitz and glamour – Kathryn has said she’d “loving” her new radio job.
She said: “The first few weeks was a baptism of fire. I had never driven a desk before.
“In any of the previous radio I had done, everybody was pressing buttons and doing all the other stuff for [me]. Commercial radio is very different to anything I would have done previously; it’s very fast paced.”
The 46-year-old also shared that her “most treasured possession” is her home.
She added: “I know we are very privileged and lucky to have it. We still have a big mortgage, but we have our four walls and have somewhere warm. I never take it for granted.”
Kathryn lives in Dublin with her husband Padraig McLoughlin, who tied the knot in 2019 at Kilkea Castle, Kilkenny, and their two daughters; Ellie, seven, and Grace, three.
Ellie is going into second class this September and her youngest will be completing her last year of preschool.
Kathryn recently said she’s glad to be “on the other side” of the potty training and that her kids are “just great”.
BABY BLUES
And when asked if she’s getting notions about having another child, Kathryn told The Irish Sun: “No… the shop is closed!”
However, she admitted that she briefly thought about it around two years ago.
She explained: “My sister had a baby, Lily, she’s two now. But I remember going in to see her in the Coombe.
“Grace was one. I had said to my gynaecologist, ‘No, done, shop is closed’, and my doctor said, ‘I’ve heard of women like you before’.
“Anyway, I went in to see my sister in the Coombe, held the baby, gave her back, ran outside, rang my husband, was like, ‘Do you want another baby?’, and he was like, ‘Not on your f***ing life’.”
Kathryn laughing added: “So that was the end of that conversation. And very quickly I kind of was like… the hormone release died down, I was fine.”
