Tara's main storylines within the show have centred around her establishing herself as a lawyer on her own after she leaves the inner circle of Dunbar and Calloway solicitors due to end her engagement with her fiancée Eric.

On June 20, 2016, a 4-part English language remake of The Good Wife by Robert and Michelle King, was ordered on RTÉ One under the working title Cheaters, starring Amy Huberman as Tara Rafferty, a character based on Julianna Margulies's Alicia Florrick.

[3] Prior to the series starting, Huberman described Tara as "a woman who feels she has everything going for her and then finds the rug being pulled from under her, both professionally and emotionally.

When she comes home from her hen party she finds Eric in bed having sex with Caroline (Natalie Radmall-Quirke) who is one of their colleagues.

She enlists Meg Reilly (Fiona O'Shaughnessy a private investigator to help her find where the sex tape was made.

Due to helping her friend, Tara has to ask her mentor Vincent Pike (Neil Morrissey) to deal with Ray's trial.

Tara successfully gets custody of the child to its father but then finds that Pete who owned the cafe where she was operating out of has been evicted due to breach of contract she learns that the Dunbar family are still out to get her.

Tara rents office space from solicitor George Cusack (Maria Doyle Kennedy) who in turn helps her get Ray out of jail.

Tara helps Barry O'Brien the bigamist again when one of his wives is looking financial retribution over her split with him.

Tara gives advice to his son Finbar who is unhappy with all the fighting between his parents which helps her get a resolution.