Miriam Ahern
{{Short description|Irish charity patron}}
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| birth_name = Miriam Kelly
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954|3}}
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| nationality = Irish
| spouse = {{marriage|Bertie Ahern|1975|1992|end=sep.}}
| children = {{Hlist|Georgina|Cecelia}}
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| occupation = Charity patron
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Miriam Ahern (born Miriam Kelly, March 1954){{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/miriam-puts-together-glamorous-guest-list-to-celebrate-her-60th-30093863.html |title=Miriam puts together glamorous guest list to celebrate her 60th|website=Independent.ie}} is an Irish charity patron, the former spouse of Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and mother of author Cecelia Ahern.
Charity work
Ahern is a patron of CARI,{{cite web |website=CARI.ie |title=Annual Report 2017 |year=2017 |url=https://www.cari.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CARI-Annual-Report-2017.pdf}} a child therapy and counselling organisation.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cari.ie/ |title=CARI – Shining a Light for Children|website=CARI.ie}}{{Cite web |first=Emma|last=Costello |url=https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/cecelia-georgina-sister-ahern-mum-12596562|title=Georgina and Cecelia Ahern step out for glamorous charity event with mum Miriam|date=May 25, 2018|website=RSVPLive.ie}}
Personal life
Miriam married Fianna Fáil politician Bertie Ahern in St. Columba's Church, Iona Road in 1975.{{cite book |title=Bertie Ahern:The Autobiography |first1=Bertie |last1=Ahern |first2=Richard |last2=Aldous |publisher=Arrow Books |isbn=9780099539254}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/strong-women-who-are-the-rocks-behind-the-leader-26434763.html|title=Strong women who are the rocks behind the leader |website=Independent.ie}} They had two children, Georgina, who would marry Westlife's Nicky Byrne, and Cecelia, an author and screenwriter.{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/cecelia-ahern-i-don-t-have-small-worries-i-have-big-worries-like-the-end-of-the-world-1.4362541|title=Cecelia Ahern: 'I don't have small worries, I have big worries. Like the end of the world' |newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-40722057.html |title=Cecelia Ahern: Her roar to represent older women in books, film and TV|date=October 17, 2021|website=IrishExaminer.com}} Their separation in 1992,{{cite news |title=Politics ruined life with Miriam |work=Irish Mirror |date=12 December 1998 |page=3 |via=Gale OneFile: News |id={{gale|A60623382}}}} was thought by commentators to have affected his party leadership prospects in that year, ultimately choosing not to oppose Albert Reynolds.{{cite news |title=Frontrunner in race to succeed Haughey thinks he has 'blown it' |work=The Guardian |date=27 January 1992 |page=6 |via=Gale OneFile: News |id={{gale|A171114006}}}}{{cite news |last=Tallant |first=Nicola |authorlink=Nicola Tallant |title=Priest attacks Bertie's affair |work=Irish Mirror |date=4 April 1998 |page=1 |via=Gale OneFile: News |id={{gale|A60681238}}}} The circumstances of their separation, and the lack of a personal bank account for the then Minister for Finance was the subject of political turmoil during the final year of Bertie's term as Taoiseach.{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ahern-defends-having-no-bank-account-1.993441 |title=Ahern defends having no bank account|newspaper=The Irish Times}}
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Category:People from Drumcondra, Dublin
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