McCafferty: I offered Nuala overdose

THE controversial journalist Nell McCafferty offered to assist her long-time lover, Nuala O’Faoláin, take her own life after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She also offered to help other friends in a similar predicament.

In an interview to be broadcast on TV3 on Monday night, Ms McCafferty, describes how years after their acrimonious break-up, she offered to help O’Faolain avoid a painful death through an assisted suicide.

“I did offer Nuala euthanasia,” McCafferty tells interviewer Ursula Halligan. I said: “I’ve got morphine in place, I’ve got it stashed around Ireland. The minute you want to overdose, let me know.”