No other European Heads of Government had (at that time) similarly presented their partner at official engagements.
The media discovered the couple had broken up when Larkin failed to co-host a diplomatic dinner for the visiting German Bundespräsident, although her name, along with that of the Taoiseach, was featured on the invitations.
On 2 February 2008, it emerged at the Mahon Tribunal that a house was bought by Larkin in 1993, with money donated to Ahern's constituency organisation in Drumcondra.
[4] Since parting with Ahern, she has expanded her chain of beauty salons, and has appeared on reality television, in an RTÉ show The Restaurant,.
In 2016 she began worked for Thames Water in their HQ at Reading as External Affairs Manager.