She was diagnosed with a bleed on the brain in 2024.
A midlands woman who had to learn to walk and talk again after suffering a stroke, has graduated from university.
Athlone's Carrie Minagh, was diagnosed with a bleed on the brain back in 2014, after experiencing a piercing pain in her head while out shopping.
She recently graduated from Maynooth University, with a degree in Community Development and Youth Work.
Ms. Minagh also offers peer-to-peer support in the Irish Heart Foundation’s Life After Stroke Group.
Speaking ahead of World Stroke Day next weekend, she says she no longer looks back and lives better in the present:
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