Nuala O’Faolain R.I.P.

It’s just been announced that writer/broadcaster/producer Nuala O’Faolain has did, just three weeks since she gave that extraordinary interview (stream mp3) on the Marian Finucane show. She had been freshly diagnosed with cancer and had refused treatment, saying “I don’t want more time. As soon as I heard I was going to die, the goodness went from life”.

The interview sparked a huge reaction in Ireland and it was ever thus had a good post about it at the time.