As of 2011, Alison has her own Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_O'Donnell

An interview with Alison was published in March. Please follow the link to read it in full:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=77124

Alison is working with a new band, Alison ODonnell and BAJIK. She has also been interviewed by The Irish Times:

The solo album, 'Hey Hey Hippy Witch' is available on Floating World Records from end October 2009, with an official release date of January 2010. The songs feature collaborations with a wide range of musicians including Michael Tyack of Circulus, Steven Collins of The Owl Service and Irish lads, Gavin Prior of United Bible Studies and Dave Colohan of Agitated Radio Pilot. Work has begun on an album of her songs with Greg Weeks, to be recorded in Pennsylvania sometime in the Summer of 2010.

Alison was interviewed by Jeanette Leech for the book she is writing, to be published by Jawbone Press in 2010 entitled Shifting Sands: The Story of Acid Folk.

Alison contributed to a number of guest recordings through 2007 and 2008: three tracks on Agitated Radio Pilot's double album entitled 'World Winding Down', tracks for an album by Syd Kitchen & Mike Dickman (forthcoming South Africa) a well-received EP, 'The Fabric of Folk' with The Owl Service on the Static Caravan label, Colin Harper's song, 'Aztec Energy' for the album 'Freedom & The Dream Penguin' by the collective The Fieldmouse Conspiracy, 'Sleep of Ondine', a track for 'Unwilding' for Canadian band, Mr. Pine, and three tracks for 'The Jonah', the new album from United Bible Studies. Alison is an occasional live member of UBS, and in 2009 she did a whole bunch of recordings for future UBS records and also for the Dutch lute player, Josef Van Wissem. Alison has been working on a number of projects with Graeme Lockett of Head South By Weaving. He contributed a track to her solo album and she is performing on most of the tracks for his debut album. They also recorded a vinyl single of a Nico/Cale song and Nick Drake song, which turned out to be a double A-Side for Fruits de Mer. Appearing in 2010 is an album from American band, Moonroot, featuring a track entitled 'Under the Ancient Oak', and three tracks for the ninth album from British doom metal group, Cathedral. The plan is then to start off another round of songs. Concert highlight of 2008 was an appearance at The Green Man Festival with The Owl Service.

Check out 'Dated but Still Lovely', my video on YouTube & Myspace which is fun, but with a few serious themes lurking in the corner. There's a plan to include this song as a bonus track on the new solo album.

The April 2007 issue of Record Collector places Swaddling Songs in its Top 100 prog-rock quality rarities. It came in at Number 5 with five stars.

Mojo magazine 2006 rate Mellow Candle's Swaddling Songs as one of the top 50 genre-bending folk classic albums in forty years. It's a great peer group with albums from Donovan, Pentangle, Anne Briggs, Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, Devendra Banhart & Joanna Newsom also included.

Alison has written a non-fiction book which features her grandmother as its central theme. It is a true story of human interest, based on eight years research, and is a dual exercise in genealogy and detection. It also serves as a memoir and scholastic work. BBC4 filmed a ten-part genealogy documentary series entitled Family Ties, which highlighted a worldwide interest in recent years in this hot topic. Alison's true story of her grandmother's double life was first broadcast on November 16, 2004, with a further nine or ten showings on BBC4 and on BBC2 in October 2005.( . The two main strands of this observational documentary are a link between the past and present - Alison's grandmother Nina was also a singer - and a partially incomplete tale - this is the ongoing search for the details of the birth and death of Nina's first husband Walter James Leigh. The book will also focus on P.S.G. O'Donnell, Nina's second husband and Alison's grandfather, who was a conductor with The Royal Marines and Director of the BBC Military Band from 1937 until its demise in 1943.
The programme entitled Mother of Pearl after Alison's song, filmed in Dublin, Edinburgh and London, showed scenes of Alison working with Isabel on the new song written about her grandmother and the two children she left behind with her first identity. Interviews contained in the documentary details Alison's research techniques in tracing her ancestor's origins and her attempts to trace her grandmother's first husband whose life is still shrouded in mystery. Under current construction is a new page dedicated to Alison's interest in genealogy.

Journalist and writer Colin Harper, together with co-author Trevor Hodgett, has written a new book entitled 'Irish Folk, Trad and Blues: A Secret History', which was published in November 2004, based on his articles about innovators in Irish music down through the years. A chapter on cult folk-rock band Mellow Candle is included. It is based partly on material published in Mojo Magazine, and also on recent, extensive interviews with the groups two founders, Alison and her childhood friend Clodagh Simonds. Alison and collaborator, Isabel Ni Chuireain, guested on a few numbers with the special house band (Brush Shiels, Henry McCullough & Jackie McAuley) for the night at the book's launch during the Belfast Festival in 2005. 'A Seeker's Guide to the Rhythm of Yesteryear' by writer, poet, DJ and political activist Shiloh Noone, is a biography of various musical genres which gives the nod to Mellow Candle. 2005 saw the publication by Cork University Press of 'Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock' which also contained material about Mellow Candle.