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When tragedy found her family in 2022, Carron woman, Saoirse Rafferty, decided that the best tool she had to help her cope was writing. Having trained as a journalist and creative writer, Saoirse leaned heavily on these skills following the death of her brother Rohan from a brain tumour. As part of National Brain Tumour Awareness Week, Saoirse will be hosting a ‘Write Your Story’ workshop series for the carers of people diagnosed with a brain tumour at the Clare Cancer Support Centre in Kilnamona from Saturday, October 26. “I loved English at school but I really started writing more when I went to college and studied Journalism, English and Psychology in Galway. I was doing a lot of newspaper writing and writing for radio, but slowly I found myself getting more interested in creative writing,” she told The Clare Champion. “I studied in America for a year and there I discovered literary journalism, which is a more creative form …
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