Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh on finding her voice again after surgery

Before Niamh Kavanagh underwent surgery on January 31 for an ongoing problem with her thyroid, she sounded as if she was asthmatic, writes Irene Feighan. 

“I just couldn’t get enough oxygen in,” she says. “It was weird because I was actually fine.”

Eight months after the operation at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, the former Eurovision winner in fine form. But retuning her “instrument” is an ongoing process.