‘Extraordinary’ writer honoured after cancer death

TRIBUTES poured in over the weekend to the writer and broadcaster Nuala Ó Faoláin, who died on Saturday morning three months after being diagnosed with cancer.

The 68-year-old author captured headlines last month when she revealed in an emotional radio interview with Marian Finucane that she only had a short time to live after tests in the US last February confirmed she had cancer, which began in her lungs and had spread to her brain and liver.

Ms Ó Faoláin was admitted to Blackrock Hospice in Dublin on Friday and died there peacefully shortly after midnight the following day, surrounded by her family and close friends, including her recent partner, John Low-Beer.