Miriam O'Callaghan is the first woman to present a full episode of The Late Late Show, having done so amid a global pandemic when Ryan Tubridy was quarantined with suspected symptoms of the Covid-19 virus.
23 Facts About Miriam O'Callaghan
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Miriam O'Callaghan's father, Jerry, was a senior civil servant in the Department of Energy.
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Miriam O'Callaghan studied law at University College Dublin, where she completed a post-graduate diploma in European Law.
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Miriam O'Callaghan received her Bachelor of Civil Law from UCD in 1979 and Diploma in European Law in 1981.
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Miriam O'Callaghan was the second child in a family of five.
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Miriam O'Callaghan's brother Jim is a member of the Fianna Fail leadership team and a barrister.
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Miriam O'Callaghan's first television appearance was an advertisement for Avonmore Milk in the early 1980s.
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Miriam O'Callaghan secured a position on This Is Your Life, then presented by Eamonn Andrews.
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Miriam O'Callaghan then moved onto researching current affairs programmes for Thames and in 1987, she left to train as a BBC Television producer.
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Miriam O'Callaghan has not ruled out a return to the BBC.
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Miriam O'Callaghan was hired by RTE and returned to Ireland in 1993 to present Marketplace, an economics and business programme.
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Miriam O'Callaghan juggled working with the BBC and RTE at the same time and worked on the debut series of the ITV show Tonight with Trevor MacDonald.
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O'Callaghan made her debut as a radio presenter on 11 July 2009 on the programme, Miriam Meets, to run for eight weeks.
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Miriam O'Callaghan flew direct to Luxembourg following the 2016 Brussels bombings and went on to Brussels from where she presented Prime Time that evening, with contributions from Prime Time reporter Robert Short.
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Miriam O'Callaghan was the first female presenter of a full episode of the show.
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Later that year, during the same pandemic, Miriam O'Callaghan posed for a photograph with a staff member who was retiring.
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Miriam O'Callaghan later admitted: "I stood in a photo and took off my mask, and I should not have done that".
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Miriam O'Callaghan is not known for confronting her subject during interviews.
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Miriam O'Callaghan did RTE's 50th anniversary party on New Year's Eve 2011, attended by President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and Jedward.
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Miriam O'Callaghan told the Sunday Independent: "We had to work hard at this and my husband was under orders to be home at precisely the right moment every month".
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Miriam O'Callaghan married her first husband in 1983 and they separated in 1995; she had four daughters at the time; Alannah, Clara, and twins Jessica and Georgia.
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Miriam O'Callaghan met her current husband, Steve Carson, while working on Newsnight.
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Miriam O'Callaghan later said: "I was covered in blood and waiting to be stitched [after a caesarean section] when someone walked into the room".