Eabha, Tara and Muirgen have known Eimear at least since 2021 as shown by them liking some of her reel dating back to that year.

Eimear and Muirgen also did a show together in 2025.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGwJOa4NgCD/?igsi=MWJ1cGp5c2ZoM3Zkbw==

According to Behind the name, her first name is pronounced EE-mur.

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We hope to welcome her back to the Celtic Woman family again soon.

So I do wonder if this is supposed to be temporary. But you’d think they’d find an old member if this spot was just temporary. But this is also an odd thing to say if she’s leaving permanently. Does anyone have any insight?

Mairead posted this on her FB:
Thank you Celtic Woman for everything, I am so grateful for the friendships and for the music we’ve made and I promise you’ll see me again.

So that's a good sign. So maybe we'll see here like we saw Susan in the past. We'll see.

I do find it interesting that some CW leave quietly out the back door, but some have official announcements, etc. 

It's official. CW announced Mairéad has left the group.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HaAauPMh6/

Well, that’s tragic. But the new member does seem cool. We’ll have to edit the Wikipedia page and create a board on here for her. This is the third member from Northern Ireland.

Eiméar seems to have a very traditional background, and with Muirgen and Caitríona also singing very traditional material as their CW repertoire, I wonder if this could mark a musical shift away from their more classical-crossover-esque sound.

I’ll try to find some clips of Eiméar. I’m very sad that Mairéad is gone, but I do get a good feeling from Eiméar. Maybe it’s just that she kind of looks like Máiréad Ní Mhaonaigh to me, and that’s one of my favourite musicians.

This does make me wonder if this was a decision on Mairéad’s part or management forced her out, but that’s a different topic for a different day….

Edit: here’s (https://youtu.be/b6EN-cGCP_YiQkoUPAvmxyj9kpN) a clip of her singing. While her voice isn’t as high as Mairéad’s, she seems quite fit to take the high soprano role.

I also find it important to note that in the site announcement of Eiméar’s membership, they said

We hope to welcome her back to the Celtic Woman family again soon.

So I do wonder if this is supposed to be temporary. But you’d think they’d find an old member if this spot was just temporary. But this is also an odd thing to say if she’s leaving permanently. Does anyone have any insight?

Edit 2: I updated their Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Woman#History). This makes this the first lineup where none of them have their own Wikipedia pages. However, I do think that Kate and Muirgen (possibly Eiméar, too) are worthy candidates to get their own pages. (I’m unsure if Caitríona would qualify under the notability criteria). Could someone please help in getting those set up? But that’s for another thread. There’s a lot of updates that need to be made on the womens’ Wikipedia pages.

Good lord, I’m updating this response like The Guardian’s “breaking news” threads 😭.

It's official. CW announced Mairéad has left the group.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HaAauPMh6/