Doherty fell for the fiddle at the Glencolmcille fiddle week in 1987 and went on to study under Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin at University College Cork, where she later lectured. Her doctorate from the University of Limerick was on Cape Breton fiddling. A founder member of Nomos, she has made two solo albums and later returned to teaching at the University of Ulster.
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