- Had UK music chart success with hits 'Will You?', 'D-Days' and 'Eighth Day'.
- In 1980, headlined a U.K. tour featuring a young band called Duran Duran as her opening act. It was this then-unknown Birmingham group's first U.K. tour and it gave them the exposure needed to secure a recording contract (so Hazel O'Connor helped break one of the biggest groups of the New Wave era).
- Suffered a serious brain injury (haemorrhage) on January 9th 2022 at her house in France. Fortunately she survived and is now making a slow recovery.
- Released an acoustic album 'Beyond The Breaking Glass' in 2000.
- Ireland, though is a regular performer at The Edinburgh Festival each August. (May 2002)
- Still playing - usually in Brook Lodge but sometimes in Whelans in Dublin and Airfield in Dundrum. (February 2008)
- Divides her time between her properties in Ireland and France.
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