Meet Traitors contestant Fionula Linehan — also known as the Everyman's first female panto dame

Deirdre McArdle talks to Fionula Linehan (now a contestant on Traitors Ireland) and Catherine Mahon Buckley about bringing the Everyman’s first female panto dame to life

Catherine Mahon-Buckley, (left) producer & director of the Everyman & CADA presentation of the Christmas Panto, Beauty and the Beast, in Cork, and Fionula Linehan who plays the first ever female dame in the panto. Picture: Denis Minihane.

• This article was first published in 2023. Fionula Linehan has since joined the second season of Traitors Ireland (oh yes she did)