Ruth Medjber’s life stories: ‘I’d like people to remember me for being happy, rather than for being the girl who died of cancer’In a new project, photographer Ruth Medjber is asking ordinary people to share their extraordinary tales. This week, she meets Gill Costelloe, who has terminal cancerGill Costelloe at her home in South Dublin, photographed by Ruth Medjber for the series, Sin Scéal EileRuth Medjber Today at 06:30It’s a freezing cold January morning when I knock on Gill Costelloe’s door in South Dublin. I can already see flashes of neon through the front room window and I get an inkling this is going to be an interesting shoot. Gill wrote to me, asking if I could photograph her for this project. “I’m a big smiler so I’d like people to remember me for being happy, rather than for being the girl who died of cancer.”

Source: Irish Independent January 16, 2026 07:02 UTC