Norma Sheahan is back where she belongs at the Cork Opera House

She’s come a long way since her Cork Opera House debut, aged 11, as Little Red Riding Hood. Next week, the actress tells Marjorie Brennan, she returns to the same stage in Angela’s Ashes.

Norma Sheahan is not one for resting on her laurels, nor anything else for that matter. The actor’s determination was there for all to see when last year her team won a celebrity special edition of the hugely popular RTÉ TV show Ireland’s Fittest Family, taking home €10,000 for Cork ARC Cancer Support House. What viewers didn’t see, however, was the injury that Sheahan was carrying for all of it.