Father’s Day: Navigating the could-have-beens and the changing shape of grief
Father’s Day: Navigating the could-have-beens and the changing shape of grief

Sarah Gill

Hotel review: ‘This Dublin hotel has an undeniably cool feel to it’
Hotel review: ‘This Dublin hotel has an undeniably cool feel to it’

Sarah Gill

These handmade Irish rugs will elevate any space
These handmade Irish rugs will elevate any space

Megan Burns

Ask the Pharmacist: Seasonal allergies and how to manage the Irish pollen season
Ask the Pharmacist: Seasonal allergies and how to manage the Irish pollen season

Leonie Corcoran

WIN a full head of luxury hair extensions
WIN a full head of luxury hair extensions

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Everything you need to know about Simone Rocha’s menswear debut
Everything you need to know about Simone Rocha’s menswear debut

Paul McLauchlan

Real Weddings: Inside Karen and Eoin’s Dublin city wedding
Real Weddings: Inside Karen and Eoin’s Dublin city wedding

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Shopkeepers: Macbees Killarney
Shopkeepers: Macbees Killarney

Lauren Heskin

Page Turners: ‘Love Forms’ author Claire Adam
Page Turners: ‘Love Forms’ author Claire Adam

Sarah Gill

IMAGE Business Club events return to The Westbury
IMAGE Business Club events return to The Westbury

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‘When he went to bed, we’d fall apart in each other’s arms’


by Lia Hynes
13th Sep 2021

Yavanna and Lar Keogh talk to Liadan Hynes about their beloved son Oscar, coping with a terminal cancer diagnosis, the reality of grief, and the new charity they are launching with Melissa Rauch in his honour

When Yavanna and Lar Keogh received the devastating diagnosis that their beloved three and a half year old son Oscar had a rare, incurable form of brain cancer, they were told by their son’s doctors that he had somewhere between two months, and two years.  “We had two choices,” Lar, his father, a  primary school teacher, says now of finding out that Oscar had the rare brain tumour Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma in 2018.  “We...

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