{"id":129610,"date":"2025-10-18T06:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129610\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:07:09","slug":"joanne-mcnally-id-love-to-have-three-babies-the-problem-is-i-have-no-partner-i-know-in-my-soul-i-want-the-experience-of-being-a-mother-and-if-i-dont-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129610\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne McNally: \u2018I\u2019d love to have three babies \u2013 the problem is, I have no partner. I know in my soul I want the experience of being a mother. And if I don\u2019t, I\u2019ll regret it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAfter three years touring her record-breaking Prosecco Express show, the queen of Irish comedy is back on the road. She talks to Tanya Sweeney about everything from babies and being single to meeting her biological family, making men laugh and her American ambitions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joanne McNally. Photo: Alexandra Cameron\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cb4fd98e-7b85-4538-9fca-1a8858576b44.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joanne McNally. Photo: Alexandra Cameron<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Whether by accident or design, the Top Secret Comedy Club in London\u2019s Covent Garden boasts, according to its MC, \u201cthe cheapest drinks you\u2019ll find in central London outside of a Wetherspoons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s clearly working, as it\u2019s Saturday night and the room is properly abuzz with punters who have bought tickets for a comedy in which the comedians remain, well, a secret until they make it to the stage. It\u2019s a good way for comics to try out new material and float new routines in front of what\u2019s essentially an eager, if not entirely partial, crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three years touring her record-breaking Prosecco Express show, the queen of Irish comedy is back on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,68115,12612],"class_list":{"0":"post-129610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-joanne-mcnally","13":"tag-tanya-sweeney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}