[7] In 1954, she married fellow The Riordans actor John "Johnny" Hoey (who played "Francie Maher").

[6] Fans often thought she was married in real life to actor John Cowley who played "Tom Riordan", her television husband.

[3] In 2009, she reunited with the cast members of the rural drama The Riordans for an RTÉ documentary on the programme.

[4] Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport Mary Hanafin commented on her part in Irish history: "In her role as the matriarch of The Riordans homestead, she was ever present, each Sunday, on our television screens dealing with the changing landscape and domestic issues that Ireland as a country was experiencing".

[4][5] John Boland, writing in the Irish Independent, called her "everyone's mammy and the conscience of a nation" while reflecting that her death meant all the senior cast members of The Riordans were now deceased.