Celia Larkin was the longtime partner of Irish prime minister (Taoiseach) Bertie Ahern. They are currently unmarried as he is separated, but not divorced from, his wife, Miriam. Media reports in April 2003 suggested that Larkin and Ahern had ended their relationship, an act confirmed when she failed to co-host a diplomatic dinner for the visiting President of Germany, though her name, along with the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, features on the invites.