Leeanne O’Donnell: 'There’s the question, how do you keep all the plates spinning?'
Leeanne O’Donnell writer-in-residence at Cork County Council for 2025 Picture: Kate Bean Photography.
Living in an old farmhouse in Ballydehob on the foothills of Mount Gabriel with her wife, two teenage daughters, cats, dogs and chickens, writer Leeanne O’Donnell paints an idyllic picture of life in West Cork.
Dublin-born O’Donnell, who is the new writer-in-residence for 2025 at Cork County Council, says that if she had a trust fund, life really would be idyllic. As things are, O’Donnell says: “There’s the eternal question, how do you keep all the plates spinning? How do you earn a living while you have this kind of idyllic life?”
