The former presidential candidate, Mrs Dana Rosemary Scallon, has confirmed she is considering contesting next year's European Parliament election.
She will embark on a hectic schedule in Ireland next week, including unveiling a video by Life Ireland, a pregnancy counselling service on alternatives to abortion.
From her home in Birmingham, Alabama last night, Dana said she would be "interested" in becoming an MEP but had not yet made a final decision.
She said her two-week tour of return, which was planned after she had been invited to address Trinity's Law Society.
While here she will announce details of a new book about her life and continue negotiations with an independent production company for a chat-show for RTE.
Dana will arrive in Dublin on Monday with her husband, Mr Damian Scallon. On Tuesday she is to present a £3,500 cheque - raised by a 5p per cup of coffee levy on catering at Dublin Airport - to the bereavement section of the Children's Hospital in Temple Street, Dublin.
On Friday week she will launch Life at The Edge, a video produced by Dublin-based Life Ireland, which has had Dana's support in the past. "They perform a counselling service for young women with difficult pregnancies," she said.
Asked if the video - which was aimed at secondary school students - showed abortions being performed, Dana said: "There is an appendage at the end of the video, which teachers or parents can decide whether to show, which contains footage of an abortion in process. It is reality."
Talks with independent production company Tyrone Productions concerning a chat-show for RTE are at a crucial stage, she said.
"I would really love to do it but unless I sign on the dotted line I won't presume anything," she said.
Dana is viewed as a considerable asset in media circles and several other independent companies are also believed to have approached RTE with ideas for programmes starring the former Eurovision winner.
During her visit Dana will announce details of an autobiography to be published by Blackwater Press. The book, tentatively titled, Dana: The Story, is said to explore her life and examine how she managed to buck the system through her nomination and subsequent performance in the presidential race.
"I am putting it together at the moment but will have help from a ghostwriter. We haven't decided who yet," she said.
Dana's tour is to take in several counties in the north-west where she polled extremely well in the election. In Donegal she received almost 25 per cent of the vote, beating Ms Mary Banotti of Fine Gael.
While Dana would not confirm she would run in next year's European Parliament elections in the Connacht/Ulster constituency, it is understood to be the reason why she is concentrating much of her on-the-ground activity there.
"I would be quite interested in the European Parliament but at the moment we are considering our options," she said. "It would involve quite a lot of time away and we have to think of our children but politics is a door we do not want to close."
Asked if she would consider contesting the election as a Fianna Fail candidate, she said she had met the Taoiseach before leaving Ireland.
"I told him I couldn't join any party who didn't reflect the concerns of the Irish people who voted for me. I don't have any plans to join a party at the moment," she said.
Whatever happens she was eager to return to live in Ireland with her family. "It's a move that could happen in the late summer," she said.