O'Loughlin has made television performances on ABC TV's Spicks and Specks, and Network Ten's Rove Live, Good News Week, All Star Family Feud, The Project, Studio 10, Show Me the Movie!

In 2011 a book of her short stories, Me of the Never Never: The (Chaotic) Life and Times of Fiona O'Loughlin was published by Hachette Australia.

[2] In the early 1990s O'Loughlin was writing a column for the Centralian Advocate, and emceeing cabaret shows at the Araluen Arts Centre.

[3] In 2001, she won the award for Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with her show, Fiona and her sister (and some weird guy).

Fiona Taheny was born into an Irish-Australian family at Warooka, South Australia, and is herself a single mother of five children.