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Orlaith Clinton & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Mum given terminal diagnosis just six months after telling kids she was cancer free

A devastated mum has been given a terminal diagnosis just months after telling her children that she was cancer free.

Liathán O'Donnchadha, from Belfast, was told by doctors that she had a rare form of cancer on her 42nd birthday last year - cancer of the vagina which was also found along the line of her bladder - after she woke up in a pool of blood and severe pain.

The mum-of-two underwent a "soul destroying" and "horrific" course of treatment, which involved radiotherapy everyday for six weeks followed by chemotherapy every Tuesday.

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