[1] Born in 1970 to Sean and Mary O'Hanlon, Boucher moved with her family from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Christchurch, New Zealand, when she was about three years old.
[2] In 1992, she returned to New Zealand and completed a six-month journalism course at Aoraki Polytechnic in Timaru, where she met her future husband, Mark Boucher.
[9][10][11] At the time of the announcement, she said the purchase gave Stuff "a real chance to take our destiny into our own hands and forge a really bright new future".
[12] She also said she intended to pursue giving staff the opportunity to purchase a share in the company,[13][12] and wanted to enshrine the independence of editorial functions from owners i.e. herself and future share-owners.
She also denied claims by The Platform's founder Sean Plunket that Stuff had received financial support from the Māori iwi (tribe) Ngāi Tahu, which she described as motivated by misogynistic views about the abilities of women.