‘Quietly’, from the Ballydehob native’s new EP ‘Extension’ had originally been planned for her 2022 album but it had to be dropped as it ran too long to be pressed to vinyl, she explains.

“I don’t think it belonged as part of the album arc though, in hindsight. It was supposed to be released separately,” says O’Mahony.

“It’s a very wholesome track about first love and being madly in it. I wrote it when I was twenty-two. My youngest brother Gabriel features on bass vocals in the chorus, one of my favourite features of the arrangement,” she adds.

O’Mahony has been paving her own unique creative path over the past decade. She formed the art-folk group Mongoose with three friends upon graduating from UCD in 2012. Through this, she explored her abilities as a songwriter and instrumentalist, and honed her distinctive singing voice, as the position of lead vocalist, guitar player, and in later years, drummer, in the band.

Listening to her music, it is clear that O’Mahony’s power lies in her ability to feel deeply and to convey that feeling through her words and her voice. Her main mark on the music of Mongoose, both in writing and performance, was the raw emotion at its core.

In 2020, she returned home of West Cork after a decade of living in Dublin. With a back pocket full of personal songs - extensions of her compulsive journaling habit - she was compelled to strip it all back and make an album that reflected her emotional experience of moving through the world.

Her debut album, ‘The House Of David’, was released on 10 Novembe 2022. It held the Album Of The Week spot on RTE Radio 1 in December of last year, and was nominated in the Best Debut Album category at The Hot Press Awards, 2023.

Molly will be touring Ireland throughout December to promote the EP, culminating in her first Vicar Street appearance on 23 December.