Anne Heffernan currently lives in Co. Kildare, Ireland; she has worked as a freelance journalist for over 15 years and has a wide range of interests and experiences. She has had articles published in the Kildare Times, the Evening Press, the Irish Independent, the Kildare Nationalist and the Liffey Champion and was involved in local radio while living in Co. Wicklow during the 1980s. She was reared in Co. Dublin where her parents ran a grocery store in what was once the local barracks complete with its 'black hole' and tales of a hanging having taken place by one of the criminals in the upstai...