We all have a preference when it comes to how we make our cuppa - but Ireland AM’s Muireann O’Connell has a very specific taste.
The Ireland AM presenter’s two co-hosts outed her on Monday’s breakfast show about the odd way she takes her tea. Muireann expects her teabag to be dunked into the hot water over 20 times before she will drink it.
The hosts were talking about romantic gestures ahead of Valentine's Day when fellow star Tommy Bowe teased her, saying: "Muireann, what about you? The housemate, does he know to do 21 dunks?" Meanwhile, Alan Hughes added: "So Muireann likes 21 dunks of her teabag – we're not joking. You have to stand there and dunk the teabag 21 times."
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Muireann defended herself saying the rules are different for her – she can make a cup of tea much quicker but other people don't make it properly. She said: "It's actually 14 times when I'm doing it but it's 21 for other people because they don't know how to do it right."
Alan jokingly called her a "diva" while Tommy said: "If you don't do 21 it gets thrown in your face." Muireann however claimed that she's always grateful to anyone who makes her a cup of tea.
Last week, the TV star opened up about an unpleasant job she had during college before she was launched into the public eye on Irish television. Posting a clip on Instagram of the latest ‘And Another Thing’ podcast episode, Muireann revealed that she used to work in a nightclub toilet.
Delving into the gory details she said she has seen “liquids of all colours coming out of every orifice of people’s bodies”. She added: “I have had to climb over stall doors to break into other stalls as girls have their tops over their heads, their pants on the ground, there’s nothing going on in between, and they’ve somehow fit themselves behind the cistern in the loo.
Muirean worked in a nightclub called Trinity Rooms with a group of friends. “I do think everyone should have to work in a nightclub at one stage in their lives because there is no such thing as manners when it’s 1:50 am in the morning, and people are just fighting for survival."
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