Orlaith Rafter

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Orlaith Rafter is an actor, novelist and playwright of Irish descent. [1] She is known to television viewers as the character Robin McKenna in long-running soap opera Fair City . [2]

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She was interviewed for the special A Fair City for Love. [3] She is on record as saying she is nothing like her screen character in Fair City. Cars do not interest her and neither do material things. [4]

While away from Fair City, She wrote her first play, Mercury Memory. [5] She is also experimenting with novel writing but intends to eventually return to the screen. [6]

She married software engineer Mick Quinlan in 2011. [7]

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  1. "Orlaith Rafter". IMDb. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  2. Gallagher, Brian (3 October 2005). Inside Fair City. Rooney Media Graphics. ISBN   978-0955090202.
  3. "A Fair City for Love". RTÉ.
  4. Comyn, Paddy (2 November 2003). "Orlaith Rafter: Flashy cars don't impress me much". Sunday Tribune . Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2003.
  5. Nolan, Lorna (5 June 2010). "Curtain up as Fair City's Orlaith pens her first play". Evening Herald. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
  6. Nolan, Lorna (6 May 2009). "Write stuff: Orlaith takes break from Fair City to pen her first novel". Evening Herald. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  7. "Bride and joy for Fair City's Orlaith". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 21 December 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2011.