Miriam O’Callaghan’s is set to reunite with two of her daughters in Washington DC this week as Miriam heads to the capital to cover the US election for RTE.
Miriam will combine business and pleasure to meet up with her daughters Georgia, who works in New York for sport and entertainment platform BSE Global, and Alannah who extended her holiday for the stateside reunion.
Speaking in her first public interview, Georgia said the three girls are “so excited” to see each other tomorrow.
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“Mum didn’t find out till quite last minute, so the three of us are so excited. We have a WhatsApp group talking about it,” Georgia told the Irish Mail on Sunday.
The girls are excited to see their mum work her magic behind the camera, and while they will be in DC in an unofficial capacity, they will be on hand for any support the team might need.
“[It’s] so nice for us to be able to be a part of that and share that moment with Mum, but also to see her in action”.
“[If she] needs a hand or resources or runners, we’ll be there. I don’t know how much access we’re going to get, but we’ll be there watching her doing her thing. We’re always super proud of her in those moments”.
While Georgia hasn’t spoken to media before and, like her siblings, has been reluctant to court “the public eye”, she now says that she is “recognising that it is important to have a profile in the line of work I’m in” – which she describes as “like a [sports] player’s marketing manager” with some event management thrown in.
Georgia’s father is former rugby broadcaster Tom McGurk. Georgia’s three sisters and four half-brothers have all followed different career paths, and none of them have continued in the same industry as Miriam or Tom.
“[My parents] always encouraged us to forge our own path”, she said. “We got to watch our parents do something they’re very passionate about, so it was an amazing experience. But definitely, I think Ireland is a small place, and they always encouraged us to go and do our own thing.”
“One of my sisters is a barrister, one’s a doctor. One of my brothers is training to be a barrister. There’s an engineer. Someone works in sports analytics. My twin sister works in documentary making… so none of us really went down their [parents’] path.”
The children “didn’t know any different” from having presenters as parents (they were both “very involved” and “hugely supportive”). Georgia has lived away from Ireland since 2017, so she “almost forgets” they are famous.
“Sometimes we’re at a restaurant and people are looking and I’m like, ‘Oh yeah’. But overall, it’s been a very positive experience. I think Ireland is an easy place to grow up as the daughter of anyone famous. I think our media is… if we’d been in the UK, it might have been quite different.”
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