Clelia Murphy has said that she does miss working on hit soap Fair City but that leaving felt right.
The actress played Niamh Brennan in the Dublin soap for over two decades.
“I miss the gang but it was time to go,” she told VIP Magazine and others.
“When you do something for 22 years you have to think to yourself ‘do I want to focus on this or do I need to do something else’ and they were really good and they let me out” she joked.
The character left the show back in November and her last scene saw her leave for the airport as she set off for a new life in Fiji.
With the subtle exit, Clelia reveals that there is always a chance we’ll see Niamh in Carrigstown again.
“The door is always open which is lovely and they are a great bunch,” she said.
Clelia was speaking at the launch of Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Hospice together with Bewley’s in St. Francis Hospice, Blanchardstown.
She praised the hospice for the way they cared for her grandfather when he was sick with cancer.
“This place is so important for all of us, because it’s going to touch someone we love,” she said.
Encouraging people to hold a coffee morning on September 20th, the star said: “It’s an excuse to get your pals out and have a chat and a gossip.”
“To have the coffee morning helps these guys so incredibly,” she added.
“It’s only now that I realised with all my pals that had been doing the coffee mornings – because they are going on over 25 years – the impact it has on people.”
