Kerry's Story
Kerry Doherty is 18 and lives in Aghalee. She has just passed her A-levels and is studying Law with Criminology at the University of...
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Nov 24, 20228 min read
Grainne's story
Grainne O’Neill, 30 from Armagh, has a Foundation and Honours Degree in Event Management and has subsequently trained as a Life and...
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Rosie's Story
Rosie Strutt is 20-years-old. It was on her 16th birthday when her dad first went to hospital with symptoms of pancreatic cancer. She was...
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Ellie’s Story
Ellie Irvine is the daughter of Kerry Irvine one of our founding members. To those of you who may not be familiar with us, we are a...
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Nov 11, 20226 min read
Eddie Carson's Story
Eddie Carson is 33-years-old and lives in Donaghadee. He works as a Vehicle Damage assessor in a Bodyshop in Bangor. He will be married...
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Nov 8, 20225 min read
Catherine's Story
It was Catherine Graham’s 25th birthday when her dad, Gerard gave her the devastating news, he had pancreatic cancer. As part of World...
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Nov 24, 20213 min read
My pancreatic cancer story: Claire
NIPANC supporter Claire Barnes who lost her best friend of 17-years Aundrea to pancreatic cancer talks about the courage with which her...
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Nov 23, 20217 min read
Our pancreatic cancer story: Olive & Gary
Olive Buckley was born in Dublin in 1961 but later moved to Belfast where she worked in the Ulster Hospital as a Biomedical Scientist....
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
My pancreatic cancer story: Brian
Powerful personal testimony from NIPANC Board Member and Senior Civil Servant Brian Grzymek about his wife Caroline’s pancreatic journey....
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Nov 17, 20214 min read
My pancreatic cancer story: Kerry
Kerry Irvine lost her husband Noel to pancreatic cancer in November 2011. He was only 54. In this short blog and accompanying video,...
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My pancreatic cancer story: Susan
Susan Cooke - a founding member of NIPANC - lost her husband Colin (45) to pancreatic cancer in February 2013 just eleven weeks after he...
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My Mum “Molly”
by Karen Martin Mum and I were the best of friends. Every Saturday was our shopping day, visiting different towns and villages locally....
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Sean McBrien
On the August 3 2019, I was in the midst of a fitness event and had no idea that I was suffering from pancreatic cancer. I hadn't been...
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Liz Irwin
Mum was a fit, healthy 59 year old woman who treated her body as a temple and was full of energy and life. She had no long term illnesses...
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