Karen Koster tells Kirsty Blake Knox about stepping back from her busy career to spend more time with her family, the shock of her mother passing away, picking out her future husband after seeing him on television and supporting a charity close to her heart
Barretstown ambassador Karen Koster at the launch of Barretstown’s Christmas appeal. Photo: Brian McEvoy
‘I’m in the taxi phase of parenting. I am ‘Uber mum’,” Karen Koster says. “You go from changing nappies and doing feeds and now I’m like, ‘Who needs to be where? Who’s got tennis? Where are we going for music?’. It is mental. The lifts are crazy.”
The broadcaster and her husband, businessman John McGuire, have three children together – Finn (10), JJ (9) and Eve (7).