How to Fall Apart by Liadán Hynes

How to Fall Apart by Liadán Hynes

'I don't know how long I have'

Being a mother with cancer

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Liadán Hynes
Mar 15, 2024
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Katie O Neill Collins with her daughter Hannah and son Shane, picture by Mark Condren for the Independent

More often than not when you are interviewing a woman who has a cancer diagnosis there will come a point where she will say that the worst part was having to tell either her children, or her own mother.

I have these conversations a lot with women, thr…

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