Avril Deegan (@avril_deegan) 's Twitter Profile
Avril Deegan

@avril_deegan

👩‍💻PhD researcher @DCUPsychology in partnership with @IrishResearch and @BreakthroCancer

💛childhood cancer survivor

🏃‍♀️Sports scholar @DCUAthletics

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Liam Gallagher (@waterfordmafia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to Prof. Owen Smith and the broader MAGIC-I team! Delighted to be at launch of this amazing new all-island cancer research programme. Well done all concerned ⁦Systems Biology Ire⁩ ⁦Precision Oncology Ireland⁩ ⁦University College Dublin⁩ - ⁦All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI)⁩ ⁦NCCP

Irish Independent (@independent_ie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‘Surviving childhood leukaemia gave me a passion for raising awareness of the trauma cancer causes, even after it’s cured’ buff.ly/uwGlWou

Avril Deegan (@avril_deegan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📻 Midlands 103 Radio 📻 Delighted to be a guest on Midlands103 with Will Faulkner to speak about my research funded by Breakthrough Cancer Research & Research Ireland on life after childhood leukaemia. Playing from 1:29:00 open.spotify.com/episode/0z8wbW…

Breakthrough Cancer Research (@breakthrocancer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

✨ Cancer Revolution: Science, Innovation and Hope is coming to Ireland for the first time 🧬 Explore Irish cancer research, real stories & groundbreaking science. 📅 15 Aug – 31 Oct 2025 📍 Stephen’s Green SC, Dublin 🎟 Free – booking essential 👉 cancerrevolution.ie

Avril Deegan (@avril_deegan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was delighted to speak on Today FM 💛 last Thursday with Orla Dolan Breakthrough Cancer Research to discuss the new Cancer Revolution exhibition I would highly recommend checking it out! 📍St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, Dublin 📅 August 15th - October 31st 🎟 Free entry

I was delighted to speak on <a href="/TodayFM/">Today FM 💛</a> last Thursday with <a href="/orlabdolan/">Orla Dolan</a> <a href="/BreakthroCancer/">Breakthrough Cancer Research</a> to discuss the new Cancer Revolution exhibition  

I would highly recommend checking it out!

📍St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, Dublin
📅 August 15th - October 31st
🎟 Free entry
Ian O Connell (@ianoconnell00) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m delighted to say that my guest this week on Stand Out with me Ian O’Connell is Avril Deegan. Avril Deegan is a childhood acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia survivor after being diagnosed at the age of 5 years old. She is now a Breakthrough Cancer PhD researcher at Dublin City University. Her focus

Avril Deegan (@avril_deegan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

⭐️ European Health Psychology Society Conference ⭐️ Great to see my research in the book of abstracts for this years EHPS conference in Groningen. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend in person but happy to have my research on display. Breakthrough Cancer Research Research Ireland #ehps25

⭐️ European Health Psychology Society Conference ⭐️

Great to see my research in the book of abstracts for this years EHPS conference in Groningen. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend in person but happy to have my research on display. 

<a href="/BreakthroCancer/">Breakthrough Cancer Research</a> <a href="/Researchirel/">Research Ireland</a>
#ehps25
Breakthrough Cancer Research (@breakthrocancer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💛 September is #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth. At 5, Avril Deegan faced leukaemia. Today, she’s a PhD researcher funded by Breakthrough Cancer Research, working to #MakeMoreSurvivors Hear her story at Cancer Revolution, Stephen’s Green, Dublin.👉 cancerrevolution.ie