Comedian Rory O’Connor aka Rory's Stories has opened up about family life as a dad-of-three and his fear of his children becoming teenagers.
The funnyman, 34, from Meath shares three children with his wife Emma - Ella, nine, Zack, three, and Lucy one.
Rory is best known for his hilarious sketches on social media depicting typically Irish scenarios but recently shared his parenting fears on a podcast.
Speaking on Aldi’s Mamia & Me podcast, hosted by Amy Huberman, Rory said he likes to share the difficult parts of raising toddlers on social media so that other parents can relate but instead gets 'scary' feedback from his followers.
The father-of-three said: "I won't lie, it scares me when I put up a story on social media about a toddler and all the people comment, going: 'Oh Rory, enjoy them! They’re the easy days!'
"And I’m like, 'How is this easy? How does it get any harder?"
Amy replied: "I think the teenagers do scare me because I've heard that they're not ideal."
"It does scare me, it does," agreed Rory.
Rory also spoke about being a man in the labour ward and how he felt 'useless' trying to help his wife Emma when she was giving birth.
"Any man can relate," he said. "No matter how successful you are, or you think you are in life, you will feel useless in the labour ward.
‘It’s just, we are so out of our comfort zone.
"No matter what we do is wrong, because obviously the ladies are doing all the hard work and we’re just there and we don’t know whether to rub the head, lift the leg or blow into ya."
However, he said he finally had to give in to a long-standing argument with his wife about how painful giving birth would be.
"The whole experience, the first [child] is a gamechanger," he said.
"I used to always say to my wife, 'A kick in the golden jewels.... giving birth couldn't be any sorer than that'.
"When Ella was born, I said, 'Okay, you win!'
"It is a unique experience."
