Fair City star George McMahon has confessed that he thinks it’s right that people fuss around the mother when a baby is born even if it means the father gets ignored.
The actor, who is best known for playing Mondo in the hit RTE soap, became a father for the second time when his wife Rachel gave birth to Kody Bloom McMahon last week.
The pair are already parents to Frankie who is almost three.
He was appearing on Ireland AM on Father’s Day when he said: “I think the reason we don’t get as much ah attention is that we really don’t put ourselves through as much trauma as the women do.
"Do you know what I mean? So when the baby is born of course people ask how mammy is doing because obviously childbirth is quite a traumatic experience. So you know it’s not something that I’m going to lose sleep about, if I don’t get as much attention as mammy on the day.”
The couple welcomed Kody on Bloomsday last Wednesday and he admitted that he had forgotten what those early days of parenthood were like.
He added: “He’s brand new and there’s thee years between Frankie and him so you just forget how magical and tiring those first special days are. The place is upside down. We don’t know whether it’s night or day. It kind of feels like Vegas without the craic!”
George also opened up about filming Fair City during the pandemic.
He said: “Well it’s a relief that we got it back up and running, obviously for a good while last year everything was shit down but everyone behind the scenes worked really hard to get it back to a position where we can get back on set and film safely.
“And it still is kind of funny because we still have this two metre stick that, you know, you have to be two metres apart and wearing masks where appropriate in the scenes and stuff like that. So it’s still kind of a little bit strange e and jarring but also you’ll do whatever it takes to get back to work.
“And I think the audience understands that as well. The audience understands that there’s a pandemic going on so I think the allow us, they give us I suppose lots if poetic licence just to get on with it which is great.”
