TV and radio star Mairead Farrell is reportedly the latest Irish celebrity to call time on her marriage.
However The Herald reports that friends of Mairead and her husband, marketing executive Eamon Fitzpatrick, are hopeful they may be able to work through their problems.
Despite making the decision to call quits on their three-year marriage some months ago, friends have revealed how Today FM star Mairead and Eamon have chosen to stay living under the same roof at their Glasnevin home for the sake of their two-year-old son Dara.
"They individually told close friends that they were separating a few months ago and Mairead stopped wearing her wedding ring to work around the same time," said an insider.
"They've very much been living separate lives and Mairead seems to be throwing herself into her work to keep her mind off her marriage problems," they added.
The radio personality has just signed up to join a host of big names including Blathnaid Ní Chofaigh, Breffny Morgan, Gavin Duffy and Peter Kelly, better known as Franc on the forthcoming series of RTE's 'Celebrity Bainisteoir'.
Despite her blossoming TV career, Mairead is apparently adamant that she has no plans to leave her radio post as on air contributor on the Ray D'Arcy Show anytime soon however.
It was while working on the show that the star first met her husband Eamon, who worked for the station's marketing department at the time.
