Áine Ní Dhroigneáin is an Irish actress who was formerly a regular on

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Ros na Rún () is an Irish soap opera produced for the Irish-language television channel TG4. The series is set in a fictional village called Ros na Rún, located near to An Spidéal, where the series is filmed. It focuses on the domestic and professional ...

''. Ní Dhroigneáin played Tara Ní Néill on the popular

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, first appearing in September 2005. She left the series in 2009. She first acted in a production of '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'' on stage in

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in 1996. Since then she has acted in a number of stage plays such as '' An Triail'' and '' Fear an Tae''. She also participated in the 2006 season of ''

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''. in 2010, she starred in an Irish-language short film, Nollaig Shona, which premiered at Times Square as a part of the New York City International Film Festival. She lives in

An Spidéal Spiddal, also known as Spiddle ( Irish and official name: , , meaning 'the hospital'), is a village on the shore of Galway Bay in County Galway, Ireland. It is west of Galway city, on the R336 road. It is on the eastern side of the county's ...

and is currently teaching French and English at Colaiste na Coiribe.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ní Dhroigneáin, Áine Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish soap opera actresses Irish stage actresses Irish television actresses Actresses from County Galway TG4 people 20th-century Irish people

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