Daffodil Day: Cork woman who lost husband to cancer won't let her own diagnosis hold her back

Julie Murtagh O’Connell, from Cobh, who will stage her 10th Strictly Cobh Dancing event next weekend. spoke about her own 10-year cancer journey

Julie Murtagh O’Connell, right, and her friend Hayley Gould, of Glitz Dance and Cabaret Group, which is staging the 10th Strictly Dancing Cobh event next weekend.

An inspirational woman who lost her husband to cancer while she herself was fighting the disease has vowed to keep dancing.

Julie Murtagh O’Connell, from Cobh, in Cork, spoke openly on Friday about her own cancer journey over the last decade as the Irish Cancer Society held its annual Daffodil Day fundraiser.