Irene is just back from holiday when the Susie murder mystery begins. What is her reaction? As Irene was the last person to see Susie alive, is she anxious over the news? I think this is the third time Irene has been arrested for murder. Irene was found in a heap on the floor at John Palmer's house and of course Susie had bailed. I know that Justin has had a lot of pain issues after his surfing accident and an addiction to painkillers.
I mean, this woman was a serious piece of work. She broke up a public argument betweeen Leah and Zac but when she later discussed it with Roo Leah saw it as betraying a confidence and announced she wanted to sell her share of the Diner. Irene returned when Alf told her Luc was in hospital, having surgery for a bowel problem she had been born with. It was revealed that a letter Irene left for Leah offered to sell her share of the Diner instead but Leah forgave her and they made up.
She began making secretive phone calls that led Olivia to believe she had a new boyfriend but she admitted the truth: Mick was harassing her to help him get access to Luc. She then discovered Hunter was the one who had robbed the Diner two years earlier and that Olivia had known all along. Although furious with the pair, she declined to press charges. She attended a meal intended to clear the air and found out they planned to take part of the Diner in order to open up a beachwear boutique.
The plans eventually came to nothing when Nick Dutton blocked the application. She helped Hunter with his attempts to bond with his biological father Wally Burns and took Brody under her wing after his drug addiction, advising him against pursuing a secret friendship with Ziggy or dating her in secret. She suggested Ash and Luc move in with her after he struggled to afford the rent on the flat and managed to get Tori to convince him, then encouraged Ash to act on his feelings for her.
She helped Olivia organise a launch party for her designs but lost her bond when Salt was damaged as a result. She also encouraged Ash to see single mother Liz. When Olivia asked to access her trust fund in order to finance her dressmaking business, Irene told her she would match a business loan but needed to see a business plan first. Mick contacted her and asked her to speak for him at his parole hearing and she had to stop Ash attacking him at the clinic.
He promptly went too far, making fancy dishes instead of what the customer asked for and trying to change the menu. Irene ordered him out and eventually compromised by letting him do specials. She then learned Mick had been released. While she agreed with plans to keep him away from Luc, on learning he had been beaten up at his halfway house she arranged a room for him at the motel. She kept his presence from her friends, leaving her feeling guilty when they arranged a meal to cheer her up, and told Mick he had to be gone in a week.
However, when she spoke to his caseworker she learned he had been turning down new placements. She told Mick to leave town but he refused, and when she stopped paying for his motel room he started using his benefits to pay for it. When Mick left a toy for Luc against her instructions, she followed him to give it back but then collapsed with chest pains, leaving him alone with Luc while she was taken to hospital. She finally managed to tip off Leah and Olivia, and Luc was soon found, while Irene was diagnosed with a gall bladder infection.
She was soon well enough to return home after an operation where she tried to advise Olivia against signing an unfavourable contract with online retailers the Find. When Ash felt unable to leave pregnant Kat, Irene agreed to the alternative plan of VJ taking her to Cyprus, keeping Mick busy while he slipped out of town. When she saw Mick throwing his medication away, she told him he needed to build a new life himself, not rely on Luc to give him a purpose. Mick decided to take the job in WA and Irene went with him to help him settle.
Irene returned from the trip just in time to overhear that Olivia had cheated on Hunter with her Find contact Axel Boyd and was aghast that she was happy to keep it from Hunter and carry on working with him. Coco confronted her about the lack of recycling at the Diner but she was initially dismissive. However, after Coco led the teens in a protest, she agreed to try eco-friendly alternatives to plastic waste.
Hunter revealed he was planning to propose to Olivia and asked her to record a video message; despite being very uncomfortable with what she knew, she managed to stammer something out. She tried to get Olivia to be honest with Hunter before he proposed, and then tried to get her to tell him the truth when she turned the proposal down. However, she accepted Olivia leaving with Axel. Olivia returned, resulting in Hunter moving out when he realised Irene had known about her cheating.
Nevertheless, Irene stuck up for Olivia when Leah tried to order her out of the Diner. She also tried to keep Ash and the River Boys in line during their search for Robbo and told Hunter to stop giving Olivia a hard time. When they were on better terms, she encouraged Olivia to tell Hunter she wanted to get back together but it resulted in her being rejected.
Irene and Marilyn visited Maggie in hospital when she was having cancer treatment and gave her a head scarf. She was thrown when Jasmine turned up on her doorstep and announced Olivia had invited her to move in, but immediately accepted it and staged a fight with her when Olivia came home to pay her back for it.
She confided in Jasmine when due a mommogram and smoothed things over when Olivia became jealous of their new friendship.
She attempted to dissuade Olivia from spending too much time with Hunter after he was injured during a scuffle with some smugglers. She then got a call saying Mick had been injured in a mining accident and went to look after him, saying a goodbye to Ash before she went. When Olivia was offered a job in Melbourne with a firm making wedding dresses, Irene convinced her to take it. She began teasing Jasmine about seeing Robbo as more than a friend when they began spending time together which Jasmine eventually accepted was true.
She learned there had been unauthorised transactions on her credit card as a result of it being skimmed and felt betrayed when it turned out Dean had been behind it. When she saw Willow flat hunting, she invited her to move in with her.
However, she quickly became frustrated at the amount of mess Willow was leaving around. Willow then admitted she had been involved in the credit card skimming and a break-in in which Alf was hurt. Irene let it slip to Leah and Jasmine and tried to get her to own up but she moved out.
However, Irene took her back after she confessed to the police. She quickly offered her services to Maggie in raising funds for cancer research and ended up recording a video discussing her own experience of cancer. She and Ryder convinced John to drink smoothies they prepared for him at the event. She teased Jasmine after she had Robbo stay over for the first time and dealt with a drunken Justin turning up looking for Willow.
Jasmine sounded her out about Robbo moving in with them and he ended up staying over a lot to give Colby, Chelsea and Bella space. She returned to find Jasmine holed up in the house; Robbo had broken up with her after she had kept quiet about Tori using his embryo to get pregnant without his knowledge. Irene ended up ringing up the absent Robbo to give him a serve then having an argument with Tori in the Diner which resulted in it becoming common knowledge.
She began taking an interest in Bella, giving her a free packed lunch, and looked after her while Colby and Willow were helping Dean through sleeping pill withdrawals. She began to suspect Leah had a secret boyfriend, especially when she wrote a blog about no-string sex, and was proved right when she turned out to be dating Justin. When Robbo returned to town, Irene warned him to stay away from Jasmine although she later changed her mind on seeing how confused Jasmine was.
She was going to take Jasmine to a counsellor but Robbo ended up stepping in at the last minute. After Bella ran away again, Irene tried to convince Colby she needed a stricter approach. When this resulted in Bella hitting Colby with a pool ball, Irene offered to look after her for a while and Colby agreed. Bella finally broke the impasse by simply smashing the plates. However, they did then bond while making cupcakes, with Bella opening up about her life with Ross, and Bella elected to stay with her rather than return to Colby.
Irene let Bella out of the house for the day to do a photography assignment, although when she saw her struggling with English she wondered if structured learning was right for her.
However, Roo helped her through the assignment. Colby said he was happy to have her back and Bella agreed. Irene helped try and cheer up Marilyn with afternoon tea before leaving for London early the next morning. She found Bella was still living with her and assumed a trip to an art exhibition she was going on was organised by the school. When she learned she was just going with friends, she refused to let her go unaccompanied. Irene got Tommy off her, but when he said he was going and suggest it be their little secret, Irene saw red and hit him repeatedly with a bottle, having to be dragged off by Bella.
She learned he was in a coma unidentified and obsessively scrubbed a bloodstain on the bed, becoming even more frantic when Colby worked out who he was.
She eventually decided to confess, with Colby taking her statement, and was charged with grievous bodily harm. She also began seeing a rape counsellor.
After learning Bella, who had returned to live with Colby, was shut away in the flat, Irene took her to her support group. Irene was left thinking she had no chance but Leah convinced her to let her drum up public support. She learned Tommy was planning to sue her if she was found guilty and worried about losing the Diner. She tried to sign it over to Leah but Leah refused, so Irene again asked Bella to testify.
However, she remained pessimistic despite Leah getting her support group to tell their stories online and Leah had to talk her out of running away. In court, Tommy claimed Bella had simply changed her mind and Irene had got the wrong idea but Bella insisted he was going to rape her.
With the jury out, Irene was shocked when the militant Teresa Masterson and other members of her support group asked her to be the face of their campaign. On hearing the verdict would be delivered in 48 hours, she organised a last meal with her friends. Irene was found guilty but given a good behaviour bond on condition she continued to receive counselling. Tommy sued her for damages and she planned to sell her house in order to offer him a settlement.
When Teresa insisted they needed to stop Tommy, Irene told her her hands were tied, but was left shocked when Teresa murdered Tommy.
She was concerned when Leah abandoned her blog but Leah insisted it was because it was taking up too much time. She was shocked to witness Willow kissing Alex but talked it over with her and convinced her to pursue a relationship if it was what she wanted, taking it in her stride when Willow confirmed she and Alex were together.
She stepped in to help out Robbo with Grace and had Bella stay with her again for a while when she was immunised. She let Bella stay with her when the ouroboros gang resuraced and also supported Jasmine. She watched a news report of the hospital siege with Roo.
She went to the hospital to check on Jasmine after she was freed from the siege and was there to see a critically injured Robbo wheeled in. After he died, she supported Jasmine during the funeral. She invited Jasmine to move back in with her and was reunited with Leah when she returned from six weeks being held prisoner.
She tried to get Leah to go out again and let her stay with her when she had a fight with Justin. Jasmine confided in her that she was pregnant and Irene was with her when she took the test then comforted her when her pregnancy turned out to be a phantom one. She exchanged a few words with Bella before she was sent to an equine therapy centre after self-harming.
Irene was worried about the tension between Willow and Jasmine, but after Colby helped them smooth it over, she felt able to visit Damian in New Zealand. She was the one who realised John was hanging about the Diner because he was lonely and she and Alf arranged for him to visit Jett.
However, Irene retrieved it and placed it with the other presents. While Jasmine was initially unhappy, she later thanked her. She convinced Jasmine to visit Colby in prison and took John out for dinner to show him it was still possible to have a good time. She gave Roo advice on finding out whether Kieran was drinking again. After Kieran had fled town, Martha came to Irene in an agitated state, saying Alf and Roo were watching her all the time.
Irene convinced Martha to stay in town, saying Kieran was most likely to look for her there but was bewildered to find Martha talking to thin air, insisting Kieran was there. Irene played along with it but tipped off Alf and Roo. Martha asked her to back her up about seeing Kieran, forcing Irene to admit the truth. She suggested Jasmine was interested in her friend Lewis Hayes and let them have the house to themselves, although it ended in heartbreak for Jasmine when Lewis turned out to be obsessed with revenge on Christian.
She initially encouraged John to go on a date with Susie McAllister, being frustrated when he invited her to join them and began to become suspicious of her.
When she found Susie collecting money for the surf club despite having no official role, she challenged her, insisting she was up to something. John invited Irene to dinner with them to sort things out but Irene was left concerned when John fell ill after drinking a glass of wine Susie had intended for her, realising Susie had tried to poison her.
When she learned the house Leah and Justin had been interested in had been sold to someone else, despite them giving Susie the money, Irene suspected she had stolen it.
She tried to warn Leah and John, then was shown evidence by Willow of Susie operating under different names. She confronted Susie only to be chloroformed for her troubles as Susie fled town. Alf and Roo asked her to charm Gus, one of the main sponsors, at the surf carnival but gave him a talking to when he derided John. She looked after Jasmine when she suffered a head injury in the food van explosion which left her with memory loss as a result of absence seizures. Registered in England and Wales.
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The peace was fabled many years later on the continent of Ishgar, because it seemed so surreal for everyone in the Fairy Tail universe.
As it turned out it was all because of her pregnancy a few hundred years ago. While Dragnof was a land of both humans and dragons, on the continent's other regions life was much different. Thanks to her extraordinary skills and unmatchable strength, Irene stood out from the Alvarez Imperial Army.
She got her own team, called the Irene Squad which carried out some of the biggest and most dangerous missions. Her first officers were Heine Lunasea and Juliet Sun, who also proved to be remarkably strong. The Irene squad was feared all around the Western Continent and beyond. At some point, the squad was disbanded.
Over the years fans could see Irene was a very powerful person, who never backed out from any challenge. Later it also became clear that she was quite sadistic. She has never spoken about the incident to anyone other than best friend Leah Patterson, but seeing Bella attacked is a trigger for some very bad memories. Eventually she wants to tell the police but Bella shuts it down.
Boy did I need a holiday afterwards! From the attack onwards it was three solid months of solid 14 to hour days. I joked to everybody next time you see me going up to the office to ask for a big storyline, shoot me! After as astonishing 27 years on Home and Away, earning McGranger the official record-holder as the longest-serving female cast member in a continuing drama in her native country, she relished the challenge of showing a more fragile side to her tough-as-nails alter ego.
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