Orlaith Rafter is an actor and playwright. She is known to television viewers as the character Robin McKenna in long-running soap opera Fair City . [1]
She was interviewed for the special A Fair City for Love. [2] She said she is nothing like her screen character in Fair City. Cars do not interest her and neither do material things. [3]
While away from Fair City, she wrote her first play, Mercury Memory. [4] In 2009, she experimented with novel writing but intended to return to the screen. [5]
She married software engineer Mick Quinlan in 2011. [6]
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