Melanoma: 'I never realised something so small could be so serious'

Evelyn Byrne discovered she had melanoma last May during lockdown. Photographs: Moya Nolan
A midweek evening shortly after the first lockdown started, and Ballinteer-based Evelyn Byrne was still getting used to working from home.
Married to Eoin and mum to six-year-old Conor, she works for a pension investment company. In a bid to cheer herself up and distract herself from the strangeness of lockdown, she headed to her bedroom to put on some fake tan.