The Latest Breaking News from Alice Hayes

‘We try to put applicants off’: couple chosen as live-in caretakers on uninhabited Irish island

Recently married couple selected to look after Great Blasket, the largest island on Europe’s most westerly archipelago

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2025

Cork woman and London partner are the new caretakers of Great Blasket Island

The young couple arrived safely on the island on April 1 and have been busy cleaning out “the cobwebs” in the three cottages

Irish Mirror · Apr 10, 2023

Mum of Irish girl, 9, battling cancer says warning signs were ‘difficult to tell apart from normal childhood illnesses’

Nine-year-old Alice Hayes from Dublin was diagnosed with stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma, a rare, aggressive, and complex cancer of the nerve cells, with a high chance of relapse, and low survival rates, in April 2022, leaving her family lost for words

Irish Mirror · Oct 7, 2022