Radio host Emily Jade O’Keeffe announces split from husband Gerard Murtagh after 16 years

Radio host Emily Jade O’Keeffe and her husband Gerard Murtagh have split after 16 years.

The Hot Tomato breakfast presenter shared a post to Instagram on Friday, revealing the couple decided to separate eight weeks ago.

‘Here I am writing the words I never thought I’d write. That even as I write I’m shaking and I’m breaking into a million pieces… eight weeks ago my life as you and I knew it changed forever and Gerard and my marriage is over,’ the 43-year-old wrote.

‘I asked him how he wanted me to share the news and he said that although our lives are now apart we will raise our children together being the best co-parents we can be,’ she said.

‘What I want to say is that I fought hard for us. We did marriage counselling for 18 months, 3 different counsellors, and I loved him deeply, fiercely, honestly and with all my heart and soul until the very end.’

Emily went on that until eight weeks ago she thought ‘Gerard was the love of my life, that no matter what life threw at us we were a team that could conquer it together.’

‘He was my everything. He walked in the room, I lit up, he touched me, it felt electric, he would tell me he loved me, my soul would sing. For 16 years, it didn’t waiver for me ever,’ she wrote. 

She continued: ‘I want you to know that what you saw on here from me of our lives over the last 2 years was my truth, nothing was fabricated EVER.’

‘Gerard, our love created our beautiful children, the best part of us, I know now the reason God bought us together. Thankyou,’ she ended.

Emily and Gerard share two children, nine-year-old daughter Millie and two-year-old son Teddy James.

The pair welcomed their baby boy in 2018 undergoing 32 rounds of IVF.

Emily had also tried for two years before she fell pregnant with firstborn Millie.