All news by author: Orlaith Clinton

Christopher Quinn, 17, developed a cough over Christmas and when the condition got worse, he went to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with heart failure

Brian Magennis, 51, from Poyntzpass near Newry, Northern Ireland, spotted worrying signs during the Covid lockdown while he was working from home - which turned out to be pancreatic cancer

WARNING MENTIONS SUICIDE: Gerard Mullan's mum says an 'immense void' has been left after her son took his own life at just 20 years old - she's opened up about the moment she got the devastating news

Mum Liathán O'Donnchadha, from West Belfast, had been celebrating news that she was cancer free with her children but has now been told a more aggressive form has returned

Andrea Harrower lost husband Paddy and her sister lost her best friend Natalie Wilson - both to 'silent killer' pancreatic cancer within five years and are now fulfilling a dying wish

Parents of Lucuis Corry, from Belfast, are desperate for answers to understand how their five-year-old son who had Down Syndrome suddenly collapsed and died from a cardiac arrest

Mark Graham was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer for the second time, after he had beaten the disease last year. The 64-year-old was told this time, that it is incurable

Sally Newton, 62, started feeling exhausted and out of breath before almost fainting while on holiday - but put her symptoms down to age before a colon cancer diagnosis

Corey Aughey, 6, and his family had looked forward to a brilliant summer holiday in Majorca before it turned to tragedy when the youngster was found in the swimming pool - and could not be saved