{"id":663061,"date":"2026-10-23T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663061\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:12:15","slug":"ciara-kelly-couldnt-be-prouder-as-only-daughter-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663061\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciara Kelly ‘couldn’t be prouder’ as only daughter graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ciara Kelly looked proud as punch as she shared a photo with her daughter, Ella<\/a>, on her graduation day.<\/p>\n

Ella, 24, has graduated from Trinity College with an MSc in Biomedical Engineering. Swit swoo!<\/p>\n

She looked fabulous on the occasion, sporting an all-black ensemble underneath her gown, which bore the traditional colours of white, lined with myrtle green, and her cap.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Ciara Kelly\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Ciara and Ella posed for a photo together in Trinity’s iconic courtyard, and the Newstalk star looked just as glam as her daughter.<\/p>\n

She wore a fabulous light-coloured trench coat, accessorising with furry wrist warmers and a matching snood. She also wore some cool shades because even though it’s October, the sun was shining on the crisp autumnal day.<\/p>\n

A host of well-known faces took to the comments section to congratulate Ciara and Ella on the achievement, with Dearbhla Mescal commenting: ‘Magic.’<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Ciara Kelly\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Miriam O’Callaghan wrote: ‘Wonderful Ciara – what a superb achievement – congrats to the engineer and to you all,’ as Dr Doireann O’Leary said: ‘Ah wow. What a day! Congratulations to all. LOVE your coat.’<\/p>\n

Finally, Mary Kennedy commented: ‘Lovely news Ciara. Many congrats to your daughter xx.’<\/p>\n

Ella is the second eldest of Ciara and her husband Eoin’s four children. They also share three sons: Ois\u00edn, 26, Milo, 20, and Blaise, 16.<\/p>\n

\"CiaraCiara Kelly with her daughter and son’s girlfriend. Pic: Ciara Kelly\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Speaking previously to RSVP magazine<\/a>, Ciara said her relationship with her kids is ‘totally different’ now that they’re grown up.<\/p>\n

‘I like it a lot,’ she said, fondly. ‘When they were small, I found it hard. I had four kids, I was working all the time, and you do feel unsure about whether you are doing everything right.<\/p>\n

‘That\u2019s the juggle of the working mother. At work, you could be distracted with home things, at home, you\u2019re distracted with work.’<\/p>\n

\"CiaraCiara Kelly with her daughter. Pic: Ciara Kelly\/Instagram<\/p>\n

‘My oldest ones are turning out fine, so it gives me a great sense that it\u2019s all going to be okay,’ Ciara continued. For someone like me, who has worked hard both in college and my career, there\u2019s been a lot of sowing.<\/p>\n

‘Now I am in the reaping phase of parenting. They\u2019re kind, funny and well-rounded. They have friends, they socialise, they are functioning in the world. That\u2019s as good as it gets!’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ciara Kelly looked proud as punch as she shared a photo with her daughter, Ella, on her graduation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-663061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663061","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=663061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}