What a Difference a Day Makes: 'Grief is as physical as it is emotional'

Hotelier and co-founder of Pancreatic Cancer Ireland Niall Rochford talks to Helen O’Callaghan about his love for his wife, Stella, his grief at losing her — and his mission to raise awareness of a disease he calls shocking and savage, as well as raise funds for a rapid diagnosis centre in Ireland

Hotelier and co-founder of Pancreatic Cancer Ireland Niall Rochford talks to Helen O’Callaghan about his love for his wife, Stella, his grief at losing her – and his mission to raise awareness of a disease he calls shocking and savage, as well as raise funds for a rapid diagnosis centre in Ireland.

I met Stella in 1991 at Dromoland Castle — we both worked there. My first day seeing her… she was just lovely, brown eyes, sallow skin.

We didn’t start going out till a few years later; by then, we knew each other very well. We fell in love, and married in 1998.