Miriam O'Callaghan

Miriam O'Callaghan (born 6 January 1960) is an Irish television current affairs presenter with RTÉ. O'Callaghan has presented Prime Time since 1996, and her own summer talk show, Saturday Night with Miriam, from 2005 onwards. In the summer of 2009, she began a radio show, Miriam Meets..., since replaced by live show Sunday with Miriam. She is also 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 (initially) suspected symptoms of COVID-19. Following confirmation that Tubridy was COVID-19 positive, O'Callaghan continued in this role until he recovered. Early life Her father, Jerry, was a senior civil servant in the Department of Energy. Her mother, also Miriam, was the 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 received her Bachelor of Civil Law from UCD in 1979 and Diploma in European Law in 1981. She was the second child in a family of five. Her brother Jim is a member of the Fianna Fáil leadership team and a barrister. A sister, Anne, had cancer and died aged 33.