- She met her first husband, broadcaster and journalist Tom McGurk, while she was working as a solicitor in 1980. They have four daughters.
- She has two sisters, Margaret and Anne (who died in 1995), and one brother, Jim.
- She and her husband and business partner, Steve Carson, are the executive producers and directors of Mint Productions.
- She was educated by the Sisters of Charity in Milltown, south Dublin, and studied law at University College Dublin (UCD) before spending a year at Blackhall Place and working for a short time at a Dublin legal firm.
- She met her husband, Steve Carson, a Belfast-born BBC-trained producer/director when they both worked on the BBC programme "Newsnight". They have three sons.
- September 2005: Announced she is 18 weeks pregnant with her eighth child. This is her fourth child with second husband, Stephen Carson.
- Son, James Colm, was born in February 2006 in February.
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