Dear Cancer

Dear Cancer It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Fifteen years, to be precise. To the day. Amazing to realise it … More

Mandy Coe’s ‘Let’s Celebrate’ (LentBlog16)

This being a Saturday in Lent, I am reposting a favourite blog post from my archives. See you after the … More

The way I found out, just as with my diagnosis, was via a segment of a conversation about other things. … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

This is the link to the podcast of the interview I gave yesterday on the Arena programme, RTE, about … More

because of the words and because of the books because of the woman in the anorak at the swimming baths … More

It’s hard to describe. One day your are fine, not quite the same (age will do this to you), then … More

Nine years ago today I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells. Even though I have … More

A year ago I had a relapse of my cancer. Except I didn’t. For a week or so I knew … More