Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig webhost.ie. NS
Answer
webhost.ie. 5 NS ns2.secure-ssl-server.net.
webhost.ie. 5 NS ns3.secure-ssl-server.net.
webhost.ie. 5 NS ns1.secure-ssl-server.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.secure-ssl-server.net. 4 A 83.138.8.66
ns2.secure-ssl-server.net. 4 A 184.104.181.198
ns3.secure-ssl-server.net. 4 A 217.115.115.153
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0