I come from a little town in Ireland called Kilmallock and was taught how to tie flies by my father, Tom Conba, a champion fly fisherman. When I was seventeen years of age I won an All Ireland fly tying competition sponsored by the national newspaper, The Irish Press. It was at this point that I decided to tie professionally.

After a period of manufacturing and exporting large quantities of flies to European corporations in the seventies, I travelled to the United States where more challenging areas of the craft of fly dressing were to be found.

In 1992, I was the first woman from Ireland to demonstrate at the International Sportsmen's Exposition in San Mateo, California. Shortly afterward I was made a member of the San Francisco Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club (GGACC). I have since presented fly tying demonstrations in the UK, Norway, Germany, and The Netherlands and have returned many times to demonstrate my work in the United States.

I now live and work in Tipperary Town (it's a long way no longer!) where I concentrate on exhibition quality tying. My husband, Noel, makes unique three dimensional frames onto which the flies are mounted.