When Miriam Walsh’s long-term partner was dying from cancer, she was denied the chance to see her as she “wasn’t family.”
Miriam, a canvasser for YesEquality in Galway, details how she was only with her partner for six years when bowel cancer struck.
Despite caring for her dying partner around the clock for 18 months before she died, she was asked by the family of the deceased not to attend the funeral as it “would bring shame on the family.”
She was also denied access to see her partner by a nurse because she “wasn’t family.”
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