Denise Hall: One woman's remarkable story of breast cancer survival

Since the first Kinsale Walk in 2012, the organisers of Kinsale’s Pink Ribbon Walk have raised over €290,000 to support the fight against cancer and have transformed the iconic town into a pink paradise, with over 200 volunteers ensuring that the event will be another huge success.

This year’s walk takes place on March 1, and it will start at 12 o’clock, part of a tradition that has its roots in 1982 and a brave woman called Susan Komen.

Susan was an American beauty queen from a small town in Illinois, diagnosed with breast cancer in the mid-1970s, at the age of 33. Susan and her family didn’t know much about the disease or how to fight it.