Joyce Fegan: Keelin Shanley gifted us a much-needed dose of reality

"To some her life might have been extra ordinary, but zoom out the lens and you'll see a woman who just wanted to live, who wanted to swim in the sea, to blow out candles on birthday cakes, to talk to her husband and who wanted to retire, read the paper and watch her kids grow up"

To journalists, Keelin Shanley was a colleague with integrity who generously ensured their work appeared on her Morning Edition programme for RTÉ.

Every now and then a story comes along that wakes us from our taken-for-granted autopilot.

Maybe you knew of her, maybe you didn't, but whether you did or not doesn't really matter. What matters is her story, and the ordinariness of the life she was living - until she wasn't.