Eoghan McDermott has broken his silence on his breakup with Aoife Melia. On an Instagram story, the former RTE 2FM star wrote that the last 18 months have been “devastating.”
“I met Aoife 15 years ago and think she has been and will remain the most wonderful person I’ve ever known,” he said.
McDermott met Galway native Aoife Melia 15 years ago and dated for three years before going their separate ways.
Eoghan and Aoife first dated as students in UCD, but broke up after they graduated when Aoife moved to Glasgow to study medicine, and Eoghan to London to focus on his broadcasting career.
The two rekindled their relationship in 2016 with McDermott saying: “We’ve gone off and lived different lives in different countries, grown into different people, reconnected recently and are now going for round two-7 years later.”
In 2017, the couple took the plunge and she moved into Eoghan’s South Dublin home. At the time, Eoghan gushed about the blissfully uneventful transition.
As a doctor, Mela worked during Covid-19. In 2020 at the height of the pandemic, Eoghan admitted that he and Aoife were living separately as she worked on the frontline.
Her told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “Aoife and her little sister Dearbhla, who was COVID-19 triage in St. Vincent’s Hospital, were living together in lockdown because they were seeing patients. She has handled it all really well."
Aoife and Eoghan split at least 18 months ago and Melia is now currently in a relationship with Charlie Coyle, the general manager of Tayto Park and the son of Tayto Park’s founder, Ray Coyle, who died earlier this year.
In his statement about the breakup, McDermott said: “I’m sorry we didn’t get to see our story have a happy ending and so sorry for the turmoil that upended her life, through no fault of her own” before adding, “All I can do is thank her for the many wonderful years together and wish her every happiness in her new life.”
He said that every bit of himself that he has worked on and improved over the years has been on account of wanting to live up to her standards. “She made me kinder, gentler, more patient, less selfish and better in most ways a person could measure,” he said before adding, “I hope she finds the happiness and peace she so richly deserves.”
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