Kildare author Lorna sets up her own children's charity

Bestselling Maynooth author Lorna Byrne is hosting a fundraising event in aid of her newly-founded children’s charity.

The night benefiting Lorna Byrne Children’s Foundation takes place at the National Concert Hall on November 22.

Lorna will be interviewed by fellow bestselling author and Unicef ambassador Cathy Kelly for the event.

Lorna, whose book Angels in my Hair was an international bestseller, said: “I have known for a long time that I had to set up my charity, like my books it is something God and the angels have always told me I would have to do.

"It was to be set up to help children but I kept putting it off, my own children were too young but now they are more grown, they understand life much better, they have their own children so they recognise what is important in life.”