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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 28: Singer Una Healy of The Saturdays and her husband rugby player Ben Foden attend the UK film premiere of Oz: The Great and Powerful at the Empire Leicester Square on February 28, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images) Expand
LONDON - SEPTEMBER 17: Jamelia attends the Sass & Bide s/s 2011 catwalk show at the Royal Opera House during London Fashion Week on September 17, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images) Expand

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Una Foden has revealed she is expecting a baby boy

Una Foden has revealed she is expecting a baby boy

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 28: Singer Una Healy of The Saturdays and her husband rugby player Ben Foden attend the UK film premiere of Oz: The Great and Powerful at the Empire Leicester Square on February 28, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 28: Singer Una Healy of The Saturdays and her husband rugby player Ben Foden attend the UK film premiere of Oz: The Great and Powerful at the Empire Leicester Square on February 28, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 17: Jamelia attends the Sass & Bide s/s 2011 catwalk show at the Royal Opera House during London Fashion Week on September 17, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 17: Jamelia attends the Sass & Bide s/s 2011 catwalk show at the Royal Opera House during London Fashion Week on September 17, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

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Saturdays star Una Foden will be the third judge on the new series of the 'Voice of Ireland'.

The Tipperary mum-of-one will replace Cranberries frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan who departed earlier this year and will join Kian Egan and Bressie as well as a yet to be announced fourth judge.

Una (32) who mum to two-and-a-half-year-old Aoife Belle  is pregnant with her second child by rugby hubby Ben Foden and will commute from London for the TV gig.

Una started out by competing in the Irish Popstars show and has had massive success with The Saturdays since they formed in 2008, selling over 4 million records in the UK and Ireland.

She also took part in Tom Daley's diving show, Splash, earlier this year.

The Voice of Ireland returns to RTE in March next year by which time Una will have given birth to her second baby. 

Singer and judge Jamelia is understood to have departed the show due to the expensive commute from London every week and her replacement, and fourth coach, has yet to be revealed.

Dolores announced she was departing in July this year, saying the commute from her Canadian hometown to Dublin was just too much.

Dolores, who has three children, Dakota, Molly, and Taylor, with hubbie Don Burton, was on the show for just one series and appeared to go down well with viewers.

She was credited with breathing a fresh lease of life into the show, which films in The Helix in DCU, after joining Niall Breslin, Kian Egan, and Jamelia in the rotating red chairs.

Despite admitting to never watching the show before becoming a mentor, the Limerick-born singer made it to the final stages with her talented contestant Kellie Lewis.

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