Rachel Sarah Murphy: Ex-Fair City actress on returning to the stage in Cork 

After she left Fair City, Rachel Sarah Murphy moved back to Cork and set up several businesses. The acting bug never left her, however, and she's returning to the stage at Cork Arts Theatre 

Cork actress Rachel Sarah Murphy played Jo Fahey in Fair City for many years.

It has been 25 years since actor and businesswoman, Rachel Sarah Murphy, has been on the stage. The former Fair City actor, who played Jo Fahey in the TV soap for 16 years, is making her stage comeback in Same Time Next Year at the Cork Arts Theatre.  This 1975 romantic comedy by Bernard Slade is about two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for over twenty-five years.

Murphy’s last theatrical role was that of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. That too was at the Cork Arts Theatre. “After that, I pretty much went into Fair City,” says Murphy who left the fictional Carrigstown in 2016 and moved her Irish Film Academy from Dublin to Cork.