She has also portrayed various characters in the BBC sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys, before taking on the regular role of Birdie Flanagan in 2023.
[6][7][1] In a 2014 interview, she recounted her earliest memory of sitting on the garden wall watching tractors and cattle passing by.
[9] During the 1980s, Rodgers worked for nine and a half years in a Fujitsu factory in Tallaght, where she spent "eight hours a day looking down a microscope at cells on microchips".
[9] Fujitsu started a society where employees could perform together at the John Player Tops Of The Town talent contest, and Rodgers joined as a dancer in the back row.
[10] Rodgers credits Irish comedian Brendan Grace as an influence on her style, and used to watch him perform live at cabaret shows in a pub in Terenure during the 1970s and 80s.
[5] She also credits Lucille Ball as an influence, stating "She was one of the first ballsy comedians on our screens at a time when women were portrayed as demure and ladylike".
[1] In 2019, Rodgers revealed that she was left unable to work for 18 months after an incident in which a fall had cut off the blood supply down the right hand side of her body resulting in the collapse of her hip bone over time.