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

Years after a random New Year’s Eve attack, survivor Alanna Quinn Idris is delighted to reveal her ‘beautiful new eye’, writes Alison O'Reilly

Born in 2004, Alanna went to her local all-girls secondary school, Caritas College, where she sat her Leaving Certificate after the assault. Picture: Moya Nolan

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.