Miriam O'Callaghan (media personality)
| Miriam O'Callaghan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 January 1960 Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland |
| Education | Law |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Employer | RTÉ |
| Salary | €302,000 (2008), €290,625 (2009), €307,000 (2011) |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Spouse(s) |
Tom McGurk (1983 - 1995) Steve Carson (2000 - present) |
| Children | 8 |
| Relatives | Jim O'Callaghan (brother) Dr Margaret O Callaghan, Academic & Historian QUB |
Miriam O'Callaghan (born 6 January 1960) is an Irish television current affairs presenter with RTÉ. She has eight children. She has presented Prime Time since 1996, and her own summer Talk show, Saturday Night with Miriam, since 2005. In the summer of 2009, she began a radio show, Miriam Meets..., since replaced by live show Sunday with Miriam.
Her father, Jerry, was a senior civil servant in the Department of Energy. Her mother, also Miriam, was daughter of a garda sergeant. O'Callaghan studied law at University College Dublin, where she also completed a post-graduate diploma in European Law.
She was second child in a family of five. Her brother Jim is a member of the Fianna Fáil leadership team and a barrister.
Soon after qualifying as a solicitor in 1983, she moved to London with then husband, Tom McGurk, and applied for a researcher's job in Thames Television. She secured a position on This Is Your Life, then presented by Eamonn Andrews. She then moved onto researching current affairs programmes for Thames and in 1987, she left to train as a BBC producer in the BBC Television Centre in west London. As a producer, she worked on shows such as Kilroy, Family Matters and Prime Time, responsible for specials from Hong Kong and Jerusalem. O' Callaghan then joined the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight as a reporter where she worked for ten years. While there she oversaw several high-profile investigative programmes, including one on the UDR 4 miscarriage of justice and another miscarriage of justice case about Kiranjit Ahluwalia. She also covered the Northern Ireland Peace Process for Newsnight. She has not ruled out a return to the BBC.
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