Alanna Quinn Idris interview: 'I grieve the past and what might have been ... but I’ve accepted it’

Holding her new prosthetic eye in the palm of her hand, Alanna Quinn Idris smiled and said: “It’s lovely, isn’t it?”

The tiny white implant, which she received from the Súil Nua Optical Clinic in Dublin, was cast for her after she lost her right eye in an unprovoked assault nearly three years ago.

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