Evelyn O’Rourke: My baby and my cancer ‘were like neighbours’ during pregnancy

Broadcaster Evelyn O’Rourke speaks to Stephen Teap and Lynsey Bennett as she investigates cancer care for women in Ireland

Evelyn O'Rourke. Picture: Bryan Brophy

During her second pregnancy 10 years ago, broadcaster Evelyn O’Rourke was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“What I found hard to understand was that you had a baby here,” she says, pointing to her stomach, “and you had cancer here. They were like neighbours.”