{"id":287470,"date":"2026-01-16T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:54:08","slug":"ruth-medjber-meets-gill-costelloe-who-has-been-diagnosed-with-terminal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287470\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Medjber meets Gill Costelloe who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIn a new project, photographer Ruth Medjber is asking ordinary people to share their extraordinary tales. This week, she meets Gill Costelloe, who has terminal cancer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gill Costelloe at her home in South Dublin, photographed by Ruth Medjber for the series, Sin Sc\u00e9al Eile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3766619f-44dd-4238-8454-cd1982e613be.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gill Costelloe at her home in South Dublin, photographed by Ruth Medjber for the series, Sin Sc\u00e9al Eile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s a freezing cold January morning when I knock on Gill Costelloe\u2019s 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. \u201cI\u2019m a big smiler so I\u2019d like people to remember me for being happy, rather than for being the girl who died of cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As we sit in her incredible house which is covered in art, I get a sense of her personality. Each print on the wall is a clue to her buzzing wit and dark sense of humour. Her love of music is all around us with kitsch and colourful illustrations of Thin Lizzy, Elton John and Queen. She has a certain style that reminds me of my own. We even have the same neon lightning bolt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new project, photographer Ruth Medjber is asking ordinary people to share their extraordinary tales. This week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4746],"class_list":{"0":"post-287470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115904647425691698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}