Angelina Jolie story resonates with many Irish women

Several Irish women know how Angelina Jolie felt when she took the option of radical surgery to reduce her breast cancer risk — because they made the same difficult decision, writes Áilín Quinlan

WRITING her memoir Talk to the Headscarf in 2011 left author Emma Hannigan flabbergasted.

“I thought, Holy Cow — did this actually happen to somebody? Yes, it happened to me,” she recalls.