Cancer survivor celebrates recovery with 480km charity walk

A cancer survivor who was once told she had just six months to live is celebrating her miraculous recovery by embarking on a punishing 480km charity walk.

Shirley McEntee, 43, from Galway, has beaten first being struck down by melanoma in 2004. She has also undergone a number of life-saving surgeries in recent years, including complex operations to remove part of her lungs and an ovary.

Her most recent surgery in 2014, an operation to remove a brain tumour, marked the end of a decade of battling the killler disease.