Dearbhla Mescal, the mother of actor Paul and singer Nell, has opened up about her battle with cancer, saying that she found it particularly hard to tell her children the news d her diagnosis.
The retired garda was told she had multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in 2022. She had a stem cell transplant in 2023 and is now in remission from the disease.
The 57-year-old Wicklow native, who is also mother to middle-child Donnacha (28), has now published her first book, Finding Joy: Capturing the Beauty of Ordinary Life in 28 Days, which chronicles her online journal encouraging people to share sparks of…