Bláthnaid tells of surgery hell

Television star Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh recently underwent major abdominal surgery and has described it as a “hellish experience”.

In just three months, she underwent two operations, including the removal of half of her colon, or large intestine, in January.

Bláthnaid, a 41-year-old mother of four, who has just secured the main role in a television drama to be broadcast in the autumn, told Woman’s Way magazine: “If this show happened a few years ago I don’t think I’d have been able for it. The fact that I’ve dealt with several major health issues in the last few months; that pain I lived with for 30 years... But I’ve been fixed, my engine has been fixed. I just think this is for me.