Personal Life
Doody married Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of the Independent News & Media on 25 June 1994, at the O'Reilly family residence Castlemartin. The couple made their home at Bartra House, a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) home overlooking the sea in Dalkey. The marriage produced two daughters (Alanna in 1996; Lauren in 1999). She separated from O'Reilly in 2004, and divorced in 2006.
During the filming of the E4 Comedy-Drama, 'Beaver Falls' in 2011, Doody met Douglas De Jager, a packaging tycoon from Cape Town in South Africa. The couple had been keeping their relationship low-key. De Jager died of a heart attack in July 2012.
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