RONAN KEATING 'WE LOVE OUR SUNDAYS AT NIPPERS!'

The Irish singer talks family life in Australia and sharing the Voice stage with his old friend, Melanie C

- Nikita Lee

Ronan Keating's an Irishman who lives mostly in London, part-time in Dubai and travels the globe for his music career, but if he had to choose one favourite place? It'd be Australia, the country his wife Storm is from and where their children, Cooper, eight, and Coco, five, could pass for local kids down at the beach!

"It's a home away from home for me. I pine for Sydney when I'm not here, I really do," Ronan tells Woman's Day.

"My daughter's got more of an Aussie accent, Cooper's got quite a British accent but then he's in school here and he goes to Nippers and I hear all the little Aussie-isms pop into his phrases."

The lifestyle of Sydney's Eastern suburbs is always a drawcard for the musician, 48, and his family, and a bonus perk to returning to The Voice panel after almost a decade away.