With so many of her colleagues stepping back from the limelight, Miriam O’Callaghan has weighed in on whether she’ll ever retire.

The broadcaster has been a mainstay at RTÉ for decades and loves every minute of what she does.

Chatting to EVOKE at the launch of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Autumn/Winter schedule, she revealed that she is taking a similar approach to retirement as Oprah.

‘I was listening to a podcast of Oprah Winfrey the other day, and I would be like, Oprah, I don’t understand the word retirement,’ she said.

Miriam continued: ‘I always think it sounds like you’re retiring from life, you’re retiring from what you love to do.

‘She’s in her mid-seventies. Will I get there? I don’t know, but I love what I do so far, and it’s a great place to be older in the women’s world.’

‘When I started, if you were forty, you were completely finished, but it’s a different world now, it’s a different place, and women need to be seen, and I think it’s a great time to be over forty,’ she explained.

One thing keeping her in the job is her love of working on Prime Time, which she describes as ‘an important programme.’

Miriam added: ‘An awful lot of programmes don’t matter that much but I get to interview interesting people and the same on my radio show but I am working on a couple of documentaries… and I just love life, it’s our only life, live it to the full.’

Living life to the full might potentially include writing a second book after her first efforts reached the number one spot.

Miriam told EVOKE that she’s already been asked to write another book but is still debating it at the moment.

She admitted that she never realised how much work goes into writing a book until she started writing her own and that the process gave her a new respect for writers.

Next up for Miriam is a well-deserved break in Portugal with family. The getaway comes after she recently celebrated her daughter Jess’ wedding to financier Daragh McCormack.

Commenting on the big day, she said that she prefers not to comment on her children, saying: ‘I don’t talk about it because it’s her day [and] I’m the person in the public eye [but] a great day was had and I had a ball.’