Miriam fails to rule out run for the Áras
MIRIAM O’Callaghan has refused to rule out running in the presidential election.
The RTÉ broadcaster declined to respond twice yesterday to questions about her potential candidacy. She openly admits it is the question “everyone has asked me”, but her response remains highly ambiguous.
Amid continued speculation about her Áras ambitions, the Irish Independent asked the RTÉ broadcaster (58) if she might consider running.
Ms O’Callaghan smiled and said: “We have a wonderful president in Michael D Higgins.”
Asked a second time if there is any chance she might run, she replied: “As I said, we have a wonderful president in Michael D Higgins.”
With that, a PR person intervened to say: “We have to move on.”
The ‘Prime Time’ presenter and weekend radio show host says she was delighted to see the recent success of female colleagues in her industry, including Catriona Perry and Keelin Shanley, the new faces of the ‘Six One News’ on RTÉ.
“I think it’s absolutely wonderful, but lots of my male friends in RTÉ are saying, ‘Oh, it’s a bad time to be a man’.
“But I’m saying, ‘It’s great – it’s a great time to be a woman’.”
Ms O’Callaghan seems in no rush to increase the number of days she was appears on radio.
“I’m happy doing what I’m doing because I’m doing a chat show and making a documentary at the moment too, and my children are still young and I like taking them
to school.”