‘Oh, every day,” Una exclaims when I ask her if, in her days as a singer-songwriter gigging around Ireland, she ever thought, “This is just not going to happen.”
“I’d be going, ‘When is it gonna happen, when is it gonna happen?'” The 28-year-old Tipperary native says, smiling at the memory.
“I wrote songs about when is it gonna happen, why is it taking so long. So Long, So Long is a song I wrote,” she giggles self-deprecatingly.
Was it tough, the years spent struggling in anonymity? “It was. Well,” she pauses to qualify that, ever determined to see the positive side. “You feel, I wouldn’t like to still be doing that, ’cause it’d be like, ‘Where am I going?’ You know? But I felt at the time it was necessary. And I enjoyed the place where I was at; I didn’t want to be at the top or anything. I was enjoying getting there and that.”
It’s been a long day for Una. Having flown in to Dublin the night before, she has been on the go since half six in the morning. It’s now almost four, and she’s had only a 10-minute break between photo calls and interviews, promoting Diet Coke’s Love it Light Roadshow.
This year’s Marquee in Drumlish Festival with the Saturdays’ pop star Una Healy set to perform on the opening night.
The Tipperary singing sensation, who is Declan Nerney’s niece, will sing on Friday August 20 next alongside her well known uncle.
Last year when the Leader discovered Declan had a famous niece and god-daughter he told us he hoped that she would perform live in Longford and it seems his wish has come true.
Irish singing sensation Mundy will also perform live at the Marquee at the Drumlish Festival. He will take to the stage on Saturday night, August 21 with the Aftermath and afterwards a host of i102-104 DJs who will perform a DJ set.
Speaking to the Leader about the exciting line-up of performers at this year’s festival Eimear Kelleagher, the PRO of the Marquee in Drumlish Festival said, “We are absolutely delighted to have such a well known international star as Una Healy appearing at the festival. She also has a great connection to Drumlish with her mother, Anne Healy and her uncle Declan being from the area and that’s very important to us with a community festival such as this one.”
After discussing this with Matt, and thinking it over and over again, i desided to post it anyway.
A few pictures of Ben and Una in Ibiza appeared on the internet, and this time (in my oppinion not one of the smartest move Una ever made) Una is topless. It looks like she’s having no problems to showing her topless body to the paparazzi at all, but I censored it anyway (sorry boys!)
Click HERE to see the censored pictures, but I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t.
Saturdays member Una Healy has revealed that she had to plead with her management team to let her go on holiday with her boyfriend.
Healy, who has been dating rugby star Ben Foden for over a year, admitted that she was keen for them to go on holiday together as they had never done so before.
She said: “I’m going on my first holiday with Ben since we’ve met – we’ve never been away together. So I had to ask… please just give me that week off to go on holiday with my boyfriend, or I’ll go insane!”
Badmate Mollie King joked: “She’s the special one and we have to work our a*ses off!”
Healy will still be present for this Sunday’s T4 On The Beach festival in Weston-super-Mare, where the group will give their first performance of new single ‘Missing You’.
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