Claim: Patricia Gibney is an Irish author of eight crime fiction novels from Mullingar, County Westmeath  who self-published a children's book entitled Ragmullin and worked with the Irish Writers Centre to improve her writing.
Evidence: When her husband died in 2009, aged 49, three months after a diagnosis of cancer, Gibney turned to art and writing, self-publishing a children's book entitled Spring Sprong Sally.