An absorbing journey out of the shadow of death

As the documentary Orla Tinsley: Warrior (RTÉ One) opened, she was in New York studying for a creative writing master’s in Columbia University while on a lung transplant list in New York Presbyterian Hospital

Orla Tinsley’s struggle with cystic fibrosis was laid bare in Orla Tinsley: Warrior (RTÉ One)

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‘The years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind . . .”

Foisted posthumously on Major Robert Gregory by WB Yeats in An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, these words could hardly be further from Orla Tinsley’s experience of breath, or the ...