{"id":662588,"date":"2026-10-23T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662588\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:06:14","slug":"inside-joanna-cooper-and-conor-murrays-forever-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662588\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Joanna Cooper and Conor Murray&#8217;s &#8216;forever home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanna Cooper and Conor Murray will soon be upping sticks from Dublin and moving to her native Derry, to be closer to her mum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The couple, their son, Alfie, and their dog, Kevin, will move into their &#8216;forever home&#8217; in around a month&#8217;s time, and their knee-deep in renovations at the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Joanna shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@joannacoops\/video\/7699238469784128790?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-9AlmW1peROA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a house update<\/a> for her followers, with people calling it &#8216;divine&#8217; and &#8216;dreamy&#8217; even before it&#8217;s finished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/073196ec-614e-42fb-98f7-09415df77bdb.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok\" class=\"wp-image-2213659\"  \/>Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanna shared a clip of an archway between the hall and the kitchen, which she and Conor plan to fill with a window. She included a photo of said window, which is a tall, arched, double-door-style glass window with a black steel frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The model said she had been &#8216;so excited to see&#8217; the light fixture in her kitchen &#8216;in real life&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a cool statement chandelier featuring three sculptural, cone-shaped shades suspended from black metal chains. Very avant-garde.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/52855744-b06d-440a-9566-0360188a7457.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok\" class=\"wp-image-2213660\"  \/>Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanna admitted: &#8216;We live so far from the house at the moment that we&#8217;re just going off pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She &#8216;wanted to have fun&#8217; with the upstairs bathroom, and so, she showed off an inspiration picture which featured a walk-in shower with an arched entryway: the focal point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funky shower features vertical green and light-toned subway tiles, giving it a boutique effect. Elsewhere, she said she&#8217;s &#8216;obsessed&#8217; with the bubble-shaped radiator in the space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/99553285-9ad9-489c-96f0-065b9926a5ab.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok\" class=\"wp-image-2213662\"  \/>Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanna also shared that she has big plans for her dressing room\/walk-in wardrobe area, and that she&#8217;s delighted with the transformation her outdoor area has undergone since the last time she saw it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She&#8217;s particularly happy with the paving in the back, while the garage will be converted into a gym\/office space for them, she said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/65899290-0ebb-46f8-8d91-6b965f05e06c.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok\" class=\"wp-image-2213661\"  \/>Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanna previously shared that she <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/07\/11\/entertainment\/celebrity\/joanna-cooper-mum-derry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feels an air of &#8216;guilt&#8217; that she hasn&#8217;t been around more<\/a>, given her mum&#8217;s battle with early-onset dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanna <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2023\/01\/26\/entertainment\/celebrity\/joanna-cooper-mother-dementia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced her mum, Terri&#8217;s, &#8216;heartbreaking&#8217; diagnosis<\/a> in January 2023. Teri was just 62 years old when she was diagnosed in 2021, but started presenting signs of the disease when she was only 60.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8a9a2e6b-3c90-4d77-8287-7432caf3076c.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok\" class=\"wp-image-2213666\"  \/>Pic: Joanna Cooper\/TikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/lifestyle\/conor-murray-and-joanna-cooper-its-an-awful-disease-if-she-knew-how-she-was-existing-in-the-world-now-she-would-hate-it\/a\/158067564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Irish Independent<\/a>, the rugby WAG revealed that her mum is living in a home, and the disease has progressed rapidly in recent times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;My mum is in a home and has been in a home for five years. But definitely there\u2019s always part of you, when you live away, and you have a parent that\u2019s not well, the guilt is always there,&#8217; she explained.<a href=\"https:\/\/showheroes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joanna Cooper and Conor Murray will soon be upping sticks from Dublin and moving to her native Derry,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-662588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}