The Dublin actress has relocated to London with her family, including daughter Evie, who has Stargardt Disease. After eight years in Hollywood, it was time, she tells Esther McCarthy.

IT'S a long way from Ballykissangel to Tanzania, but that's where actress Victoria Smurfit will be spending the start of the new year.

BALLYVALLEY sounds like the name of a fictional Irish townland, the sort of place an English TV show might latch onto - if it hadn’t come up with Ballykissangel.