Brave Orla’s crowning glory

GETTING complimented for her hairstyle is still a surprise for teenager Orla Jackman, who was diagnosed with leukaemia just over a year ago.

Orla, aged 13, from Tullow, Co Carlow, the oldest of three children, lost her hair straight away when her treatment started.

“She never complains about a thing, but when she lost her hair it really hit her,” her mother Máire recalled yesterday.