Born in Westport, she learned with Mayo harpist Anne-Marie Scanlon (a student of Nancy Calthorpe) and Kim Fleming of Roscommon, and studied music at NUIM and UCC. She plays Irish harp, specialising in dance tunes, music of the harper composers and also some international folk genres. A member of the band The Bumblebees, in 1992 she was winner of the Belfast Bicentennial Harp Festival. She has collaborated on projects and recordings with Dónal Lunny, Sinéad O’Connor, Mary Black, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Steve Cooney.