‘When I close my eyes, I can still hear my father’s voice, my mother’s voice, my sister’s voice’ – Sheila O’Flanagan on grief

‘When I close my eyes, I can still hear my father’s voice, my mother’s voice, my sister’s voice’ – Sheila O’Flanagan on grief

Sheila?O’Flanagan’s last?conversation with her younger sister Joan was not without humour. It was in July 2023, a week or so before she died in a hospice in Belfast, where she’d been for months with breast cancer.