Radio journalist Teri Garvey dies

THE DEATH has taken place of journalist and broadcaster Teri Garvey.

Garvey presented various programmes on RTÉ Radio including The Family Treeon genealogy. She was also chairwoman of the national working group on the regulation of complementary therapists which reported in 2005.

Ms Garvey had battled Hodgkin’s Disease as a teenager and breast cancer in the 1990s. In July 2005, she was told she had 15-20 months to live after she was again diagnosed with cancer.

Speaking of her illness in April 2008, she said “the benefit of something like cancer that you actually get a call and if you’re lucky you get more and more time but at the very least you get time to put your affairs in order”. She added: “I want every last minute . . . Life can get very sweet if you think it’s limited.”

She was speaking on RTÉ after author Nuala O’Faolain revealed she had decided not to undergo chemotherapy having being diagnosed with two tumours.

Garvey died at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin yesterday.

She is survived by her husband Declan d’Estelle Roe, children Dabheoc, Dallan and Yseult, and her brothers Peter and Kevin and sister Breda.

She will be waked at her home today. A celebration of her life will take place tomorrow at noon in the Church of St Philip St James on Cross Avenue in Booterstown, followed by cremation at Mount Jerome crematorium.