Ink and Identity: The Healing Power of Tattoos After Cancer
22 August - 21 mins
Podcast Series
Newstalk Daily
What if a tattoo could help you heal? Not just physically, but emotionally - restoring confidence, reclaiming identity, and transforming the way you see your own body.
In this episode of Newstalk Daily, Ciara Doherty speaks with Adam Daly, a researcher at Dublin City University and one of only three people worldwide studying therapeutic tattooing. Adam’s work explores how cancer survivors use tattoos as tools for healing, self-expression, and empowerment. The stories he shares are both moving and strikingly creative.
Adam himself has used tattoos to shape his own identity. Growing up in a DEIS school, he began inking his body as a teenager entering third-level education, adopting a perso...
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