Downtrodden wife to the bullish Eddie Connolly, who insisted that Rita prepared for a party to celebrate the Coronation, putting up decorations and flags as well as preparing food and drink for Eddie's family. During the coronation party, Rita finally decided she had taken enough from Eddie and threw him out of their house when she discovered it had been her husband who had shopped their neighbours and friends and her mother to the police after they had lost their faces to the Wire.