Una Healy: ‘You will have the odd JLo moment, but they’re not the important moments’

Former Saturdays star and The Voice of Ireland judge Una Healy is returning to her roots with a new solo country-pop album

Una Healy, who has just released her solo album, The Waiting Game

Una Healy hunches down in her chair. We’re in the old Burlington Hotel (now the Doubletree) close to Dublin’s city centre and sipping soft drinks in an alcove semi-hidden from the main bar. It should be an easy-going interview. But Healy is suddenly acting like we’re two private detectives on a stake-out.

It turns out she has reason to look shifty. “I’ve just seen an ex-boyfriend,” she grimaces, poking up her head briefly. ...