Doireann Garrihy sitting on €540k nest egg –but company made just €9k profit last year

The broadcaster’s surprise low profit of €9,140 for the year 2023 is in contrast to that of 2022, when her company Doireann Enterprises Ltd had a profit of €108,864.

But accounts recently filed for year up to August 2023 show that the 31-year-old has carried over profits and equity of €541,634.

Doireann has not elaborated much since her shock from 2FM in May, with insiders maintaining she and her comedian fiancé Mark Meighan, who will marry at the end of this year, have been toying about a move to London.

Her departure from the station was part of a series of series of shock exits from 2FM in the space of a few weeks, including the 2 Johnnies and Jennifer Zamparelli.

2FM boss Dan Healy was forced to apologise to the Sunday World live on Claire Byrne’s RTÉ Radio 1 show when he insisted to us back in April that our information that Jennifer was permanently leaving the station was “bullsh*t”.

Zamparelli turned up on Thursday to MC the launch of the Taste Of Dublin festival, where she declined to do any interviews or talk about her dramatic departure. She has told friends though she will “tell more” in an upcoming exclusive cover interview she has signed to VIP magazine.

Doireann spent five years at 2FM and there was speculation her decision to leave was prompted by RTÉ’s new Register of Interest rules, which means presenters must seek approval to promote outside companies.

But both Doireann and Jennifer are set to co-host once again the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars.

Their contract is with production company ShinAWill, which means they do not have to declare outside income to RTÉ.

Doireann announced her departure in early May from 2FM Breakfast, which she co-hosted with Donncha O’Callaghan and Carl Mullan

She took to Instagram to share the announcement and wrote: “After 5 years of 2FM Breakfast it’s time for ventures new.”

“Donncha and Carl, I have found brothers for life in you both. What an absolute blast of craic, ridiculous immaturity and lifelong bond building.

“Anyone would be blessed to work with one gentleman every day, I was beyond blessed to work with two.”

She added she was also leaving to “pursue the projects I have been dreaming of”.

“I’m most excited about personal things and just like having some time to have breathers and even just to have midweek dinners and not feel like you’ve to race home and be up at the crack of dawn. I’m really looking forward to that new element of it,” she stressed.

“It’s going to feel strange getting into it, I’m sure. It will take a while to get used to,”

Doireann also hosts a Podcast, the Laughs Of Your Life. Guest have included Michael Bublé, Micheál Martin, Amy Huberman, Paul Mescal and Chris O’Dowd.

She previously confided to us how she met Mark.

“We met through his cousin,” she tells Sunday World. “His cousin works in 2FM, so I got to know Mark through him — it’s going great.”

Doireann is known for her comic routines and impressions, but she feels that she and Mark see more to each other than their funny sides and are not always in a humorous mood.

“I think it’s probably well documented that when you’re performing, for want of a better word, or in the entertainment industry, of course you’re not always as switched on as that, so we love to have our downtime together and have very average evenings watching whatever season we’re watching,” she explained.

The Dubliner is the youngest of three sisters, who include actress Aoibhín and Influencer Ailbhe, who grew up in Castleknock, Dublin.

She attended Mount Sackville school, which has churned out TV stars including Amanda Byram, Glenda Gilson and new Home Rescue: The Big Fix presenter Dee Coleman.

“I had no interest in TV or radio when I was at school. It was always drama and acting, so I don’t know what the secret is. There must be something in the water in Dublin 15,” she said.